Information and Library Science @ Carolina

              @Carolina
spring 2012
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
AND LIBRARY SCIENCE
Number 77
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Table of Contents and Upcoming Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
January 6, 2012
CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections
Featuring multiple international presenters
William and Ida Friday Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Registration fee: $125 (Students $50)
Contact: Angela Murillo, project manager at: amurillo@email.unc.edu
February 3, 2012
Data Privacy
Webinar
08 Peabody Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Free and open to the public
Watch the SILS Web site in “Events” for the Webinar link
March 26, 2012
OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Library and Information Science
Featuring: Jay Jordan, President and Chief Executive Officer of OCLC
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
3 p.m. – Lecture and Reception
Free and open to the public
RSVP by contacting Wakefield Harper at: wharper@email.unc.edu
May 20-25, 2012 and January 7-8, 2013 (one price two sessions)
DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object
Lifecycle
Regular registration: $950
Late registration (after April 15, 2012): $1,050
* Summer Institute accommodations (includes five nights of a private
room in a four room/two bath dorm suite on the UNC campus): $300
Contact Angela Murillo at: amurillo@email.unc.edu or for payment or
registration questions, Wakefield Harper at: wharper@email.unc.edu
June 5, 2012
Information Professionals (IP) 2050 Conference
Featuring international leaders in Information and Library Science
William and Ida Friday Center
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Watch the SILS Web site at sils.unc.edu for more information.
July 16 - 18, 2012
IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and
Networks
Sitterson Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
For more information, and to register, go to:
www.ieee-policy.org/
IN THIS ISSUE
Page 3 Greetings from the Dean
Page 4 Faculty Research: Dr. Sandra Hughes
Hassell, Building a Bridge to Literacy
Page 6 Faculty Research: Datanet
Developing a National Data Infrastructure
Page 8 Faculty Research: Digital Innovation Lab
Page 9 Helen Tibbo: Digital Preservation Pioneer
Page 10 SILS 80th Anniversary Kicks-Off
Page 14 David Iberkleid: Providing Access
Page 15 Alumni Spotlight: Dean Irene Owens
Page 16 Thank you for investing in SILS
Page 19 Donations Fund Scholarships
Page 20 SILS: Serving Communities
Page 22 A SILS Wecome to . . .
Page 23 First CHIP Certificates Awarded
Page 24 Honors and Awards
Page 26 Faculty News
Page 30 Student News
Page 32 Letter from SILS Alumni Association
President
Page 33 Alumni News
Page 36 SILS Contact Information
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Greetings from the Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends:
We’ve had a very active fall semester. It seems like yesterday we welcomed SILS new and
returning students back to Manning Hall, along with four young faculty members who are already
making an impressive difference by publishing, implementing new courses and presenting at
conferences and events, several of which news media such as the New York Times and BBC’s
The World have covered.
In September, alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends came back to Chapel Hill for a great
kick-off celebration of SILS’s 80th anniversary. Dean and Louis Round Wilson Edmonds, the
grandsons of our founder Louis Round Wilson, blew out the candles of the SILS birthday cake
that began our year-long celebration. With 120 in attendance at the tailgate, the SILS Alumni
Association presented the distinguished alumnus award to David Goble, and they unveiled a
special wooden plaque that lists all of the School’s distinguished alumni. Kim Duckett, SILSAA
president, and David Woodbury, past president, recognized all who are lifetime members of
SILSAA. It was a special day that brought together our SILS community for fun, networking
and good conversation. Even the Tar Heel football team brought a win against the University of
Virginia. The following Friday, Dr. Fred Roper provided an entertaining and historical perspective
of the School, and those who made the School what it is, to a full house during the Henderson
Lecture. On Saturday, we continued the celebration with a day-long open house that included
campus and school tours, a SILS exhibit at the Wilson Library, storytelling and fun for the little
ones, and exciting research highlights featuring three minute lightening rounds from faculty and
doctoral students. Finally, we were delighted to welcome author Linda Sue Park to campus to present the Susan Steinfirst Memorial Lecture in
Children’s Literature. Her presentation was upbeat and thoughtful as she spoke about her current and past writings. I must add a special thank
you to our alumna from the State - North Carolina State Librarian and chair of the SILS Board of Visitors, Mary Boone, and Representative
Alice Bordsen, who provided heartfelt remarks during our lectures. Their perspectives of SILS made a difference in their careers and we were
pleased they shared their experiences with us. In addition to the kick-off events, we hosted a lecture in early November that featured Dr. C. Lee
Giles from the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University who presented “CiteSeerX and Friends:
The Open Source SeerSuite.”
As we continue our 80th celebration, we look forward to our OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture this spring, which will be presented by
OCLC president and CEO, Jay Jordan. We are also planning a grand finale that features leaders in the information field for the Information
Professionals (IP) 2050 Symposium and Conference on June 5. We hope you will join us for these and other upcoming events.
The SILS faculty have begun a curriculum revision for our Masters degrees and we continue to attract the best and brightest students to
Chapel Hill. This semester, we launched the SILS LifeTime Library Project and more than 90 new students established their own LifeTime
Library. Recently, I was invited to present to the UNC Board of Trustees. During their meeting, I provided an overview of the School, which
included our mission, facilities, programs, faculty, staff, students and alumni, research, service to the state and nation and more. The Board
was impressed with SILS and all who make the School what it is. They were especially pleased with our long-standing number one ranking
by U.S. News & World Report.
As in our last newsletter, we are including feature articles in this issue that provides information about some of the creative work being
done by our faculty, students and alumni who continue to find innovative ways to serve our state and nation. Nearly every week we learn of
another award winner or a major publication where someone in the SILS community is being acknowledged. We are always happy to learn
about your accomplishments. This issue also includes our honor roll. Thanks to all of you who provide this much needed support. Your help
means a great deal to the School, and we ask that you continue to think of SILS as we manage through some challenging financial times.
Please know that we appreciate all that you do.
Sincerely,
Gary Marchionini
Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor
4 Faculty Research: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
As a teacher and head librarian in the hills of Virginia, Dr. Sandra Hughes-
Hassell, professor and director of SILS School Library Media Program, was
excited to learn she would be moving to the big city of Philadelphia, PA in 1994
to direct the Philadelphia Library Power project. After all, the Library Power
project focused on providing resources and support for all learners in schools,
both children and adults, thus allowing them to be better users of ideas and
information. It was also one of the projects administered by the Philadelphia
Education Fund, an organization “dedicated to improving the quality of public
education for underserved youth throughout the Philadelphia region.”
Enthusiastic and driven, Hughes-Hassell diligently worked to meet the goals
set for her by visiting with teachers, students, librarians and administrators
throughout the public schools of Philadelphia. It was through these interactions
and observations, as well as relationships she established, that she recognized
that the general public often received stereotypical views of urban youth and
teens from the media, and that public schools and libraries are critical for
“breaking the cycle of poverty and redressing social inequities.”
“The children and teenagers I encountered in the schools were bright, fo-cused
and eager learners,” said Hughes-Hassell. “This was in sharp contrast to
the images I saw on the evening news. The teachers (I consider school librarians
to be teachers) were passionate, innovative and committed to reforming the
educational system to make it ‘work’ for all children—not just for those lucky
enough to live in the more affluent neighborhoods in the city.”
While teaching in Virginia very early in her professional career, she had
witnessed first-hand the need for improved literacy especially for underserved
students.
“When I taught second grade in rural Virginia, I had two African American
boys in my classroom whose literacy needs I was unable to meet,” said Hughes-
Hassell. “I was unprepared as a new teacher to provide the kind of resources
or learning strategies that would have enabled them to become proficient,
thoughtful readers. I have never forgotten those two boys. I can't go back and
change their educational experience, but I can certainly through my research
and partnerships with schools and libraries help to ensure that other African
American male students have a positive educational experience.”
With this determination and her experiences in the inner city of Philadel-phia,
she has focused her research on the information seeking behavior and
needs of minority youth, particularly urban teenagers, and to tell their stories.
During the past year, Dr. Hughes-Hassell and several of her students and
alumni have diligently worked to help urban communities in Durham, North
Carolina.
The group used a literacy initiative centered on the work of Dr. Alfred W.
Tatum at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In his 2009 book Reading for
their Life, he argues that the shortcomings of traditional reading strategies
with Black males can be traced back to the fact that educators are failing
to engage these students with meaningful texts that could make a positive
difference in their lives. With her own experiences and the knowledge Tatum
provided, Hughes-Hassell and her team set out with two goals: 1) to share a
model that school librarians can utilize to support the literacy development of
Black males and 2) to remind administrators and classroom teachers to look
to school librarians as critical partners in their efforts.
5 Building a Bridge to Literacy
Over the course of a year, Dr. Hughes-Hassell, students and alumni Casey
H. Rawson (MSLS ’11), Mary Gray Leonard (MSLS ’92), Heather Cunningham,
Katy J. Vance (MSLS ’11), Lisa McCracken and Jennifer Boone (MSLS ’11)
met with the school librarians in the Durham Public Schools eleven times to
determine how they could integrate Tatum’s ideas into the librarian’s daily
work with youth.
The first session focused on developing an understanding of
the literacy needs of African-American males. According to recent
National Assessment of Educational Progress data, only 14 per cent
of African-American students performed at or above the proficient
level at or above proficiency in reading on national tests in 2009.
Males performed, on average, nine points lower than females
on these tests. The librarians discovered that African-American
males need meaningful literacy instruction that nurtures their
resiliency and encourages them to value the written word. This
means, among other strategies, using texts that Black males can
relate to, books that offer shared experiences and serve as a road
map to “sidestep the turmoil” they may be experiencing.
The task for the next set of workshops was to identify powerful
texts that the young Black men would find engaging and would
want to read. Identifying these types of texts is difficult, especially
given the small number of books published each year that are
about African Americans males. As the librarians worked to select
texts to recommend to teachers, parents and students as Hughes-
Hassell and her team encouraged them to ask the following ques-tions:
1. How does the book portray African American males? In
what ways is it a fair or accurate portrayal and in what ways is it a
stereotypical portrayal? 2. Does the book connect to issues or ques-tions
that are important in the lives of Black males? 3. Are there
characters in the book that Black males would want to emulate?
4. Would the book make Black males think or act differently?
In the final set of workshops, the librarians learned how to
mediate, or discuss, powerful texts with students. Without the
chance to discuss their reading with others and to respond to
the texts through writing, engaging texts cannot fulfill their true
potential as instructional tools nor make a difference in the lives of
young Black men. In addition to the mediation efforts undertaken
by the librarians, funding from an American Library Association
Diversity Research Grant was received by Hughes-Hassell and
Rawson to conduct a book discussion with six young Black male
teenagers in the district. As these quotes from three of the young men show,
the right books can stimulate teens to engage in reflection.
“I guess I would say that [the main character] kind of reminded me of
myself a little bit because we both just want to... get better at what we’re doing
and try to do the right things, try to get better at doing the right things, and
just keep on a good path.”
“I would recommend [Bronx Masquerade] because things like this really
do happen in life, and you have to find a way to get your feelings out, or if
you keep it all bottled up, you probably just don’t feel good about yourself.”
“You could really put any race or any kinda people in this situation, and
I don’t think you would look at the book any different.... If any two brothers
come together during adversity, then I don’t think it matters what kinda race
it is.”
As a result of their work with the librarians in Durham, Hughes-Hassell
and Rawson developed the model shown below that outlines three approaches
librarians may take to improving the literacy instruction of African American
male teens. They challenge all librarians to strive for Level 3 and to join the
national effort to improve the education, social and employment outcomes of
African American males.“
Dr. Hughes-Hassell, alumna and students successfully provided tools that are
making a difference to the young black males in Durham. To continue with her
research, Hughes-Hassell applied for and recently received a $99,074 National
Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Science (IMLS)
to plan a summit to address literacy in young African-American Male Youth:
A Call to Action for the Library Community The summit, which is planned for
June 2012 -“Building a Bridge to Literacy for African-American Male Youth: A
Call to Action for the Library Community” will be hosted jointly by SILS and the
School of Library and Information Science at North Carolina Central University.
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Faculty Research: DataNet
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is leading a new effort to
address key data challenges facing scientific researchers in the digital age.
The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $8 million over five
years to the DataNet Federation Consortium, a group that spans seven universi-ties,
to build and deploy a prototype national data management infrastructure.
About half the award will support research and development at UNC.
The consortium will address the research collaboration needs of six science
and engineering disciplines: oceanography, hydrology, engineering design, plant
biology, cognitive science and social science.
The infrastructure project will support collaborative multi-disciplinary
research through shared collections, data publication within digital libraries
and development of reference collections in archives.
The Data Intensive Cyber Environments research group in UNC’s School of
Information and Library Science leads the consortium. The Renaissance Com-puting
Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill is responsible for federating the consortium’s
diverse data repositories to enable cross-disciplinary research. Federating data
involves tasks such as providing a common access interface and developing
data management policies.
The DFC will use iRODS, the integrated Rule Oriented Data System, to
implement a policy-based data management infrastructure. iRODS, developed
by UNC’s DICE Center and DICE researchers at the University of California at
San Diego, enforces policies as computer actionable rules to organize distributed
data into sharable collections.
Procedures to automate data management functions are cast as computer
executable workflows. Policies control data access, sharing and archiving.
Research groups worldwide, including the NASA Center for Climate Simula-tions,
the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, the Australian Research
Collaboration Service and the Texas Digital Libraries, use iRODS technology
to manage their research data grids, implement digital libraries and build
persistent archives.
“Excelling in the digital age requires that scientific disciplines and govern-ment
agencies have the ability to manage the enormous amount of data that are
generated each day,” said Barbara Entwisle, UNC’s vice chancellor for research.
“Scientists can only solve the important problems of our times if they can easily
access, share, analyze and preserve data for future researchers and students. This
award is important beyond its dollar amount because it establishes Carolina as
the leader in the worldwide research community in taming the data deluge and
as the data federation hub for collaborative research. It’s a role that is essential
for future discoveries and innovations.”
UNC experts will work with six National Science Foundation-supported
consortia that will use the new data infrastructure. They are:
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of California at San Diego and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which
uses data from environmental sensors to study the ocean and seafloor.
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Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc., the Uni-versity
of South Carolina, RENCI and the Institute for the Environment at UNC.
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an initiative led by Drexel University, which uses digital design repositories to
enhance engineering instruction and learning.
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Dr. Reagan Moore, left, kicks-off the special meeting of the DataNet Federation
Consortium. Wayne Schroeder, senior data grid programmer/analyst with the DICE
group, skypes in from San Diego.
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Developing a National Data Infrastructure
an integrated cyberinfrastructure to advance studies of plant biology.
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on teaching and research in the social sciences.
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California at San Diego, which studies the role of time and timing in learning
to improve educational practices.
At Arizona State University, consortium researchers will collaborate on
policy-based data management systems. Duke University researchers will
develop education and outreach initiatives to broaden the consortium’s impact.
“We see this as the first step to building a data infrastructure that will ac-commodate
collaborative research, new educational approaches and innova-tive
problem solving in academic institutions, in federal agencies and across
national boundaries,” said Reagan Moore, Ph.D., the consortium’s principal
investigator and School of Information and Library Science professor and
scientist with the Renaissance Computing Institute. “The infrastructure we
develop will address all stages in the community-based data collection lifecycle,
from initial collection formation for a single project, to shared collections across
institutions, to formation of data processing pipelines, to publication and long
term preservation.”
During the first 18 months of the grant, the consortium will focus on
federating the data management cyberinfrastructure for the OOI, CUASHI
and CIBER-U. The work will include identifying federation requirements, in-tegrating
existing data management systems, deploying a federation hub and
developing policies and procedures for data sharing so that the data collections
of these research communities can become the foundation of a national data
cyberinfrastructure.
The Kick-Off Meeting and Contributors
A kick-off meeting of the DataNet Federation Consortium was held at RENCI on
October 2 and 3, 2012 that brought together members to introduce the various
collaborators, review goals and determine methods of communication during
the project’s lifetime. The participants represented the six Communities of
Practice that comprise the DataNet Federation Consortium: science and engi-neering
domains; facilities and operations; policies and standards; technology
and infrastructure research; sustainability; and education.
Those involved in the project include: Reagan Moore, Principal Investigator, profes-sor,
director of the Data Intensive Cyber Environment (DICE) Group
Co-principal investigators of the project include:
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅁 Arcot Rajasekar, SILS professor, research scientist at RENCI, leader of the
Technology Infrastructure Community of Practice
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅊 John Orcutt, Ocean Observatories Initiative, University of California at
San Diego
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅗 William C. Regli, Ciber-U, Drexel University, and leader of the Science and
Engineering Community of Practice
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅊 Jonathan Goodall, Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hy-drologic
Science (CUAHSI), University of South Carolina
Additional participants included:
Helen Tibbo, SILS professor and leader of the Policies and Standards Community
of Practice; Julian Lombardi, Duke professor; Christopher Lee, SILS associate pro-fessor;
Sudha Ram, iPlant Collaborative, University of Arizona; Gary Marchionini,
SILS Dean; Ken Galluppi, Institute for the Environment, UNC; Lawrence Band,
Director, Institute for the Environment, UNC; Mary Whitton, RENCI, DataNet
Federation Consortium project manager; Tom Carsey, Director, Odum Institute for
Social Science Research; Jon Crabtree, Odum Institute for Social Science Research.
SILS faculty are a critical part of the team determining information needs of the
science partners for the development of the iRods system included in the DataNet
project. They include Dr. Helen Tibbo, alumni distinguished professor, and Dr.
Christopher (Cal) Lee, associate professor, senior personnel on the project who will
lead the Policy and Standards Community of Practice, charged with identifying the
practices and needs of the scientific groups, and identify associated requirements
for policies and processes. Dr. Richard Marciano, professor, leads development of
sustainability mechanisms for data collections.
SILS doctoral student, Jewel Ward, Dr. Helen Tibbo and Dr. Cal Lee compare notes
during a break during the kick-off meeting of the DataNet Federation Consortium.
Members of the DataNet Federation Consortium arrived from around the country
to learn more about the goals, expectations, organization of the group, collaborators
and the timeline of the project.
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Dr. Richard Marciano, SILS professor, co-founder and former executive
director of the Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) Center, affiliated
professor in American studies and director of Sustainable Archives and Leverag-ing
Technologies (SALT), is now co-founder and co-director of a new virtual
lab that will encourage collaborative, interdisciplinary and innovative digital
humanities projects.
Brett Bobley, director of the Office of Digital Humanities at the National
Endowment for the Humanities, lectured on Oct. 10 to celebrate the kickoff
of the Digital Innovation Lab, which is affiliated with the American Studies
Department in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences.
The Digital Innovation Lab encourages the production of digital “public
goods” projects and tools that are of social and cultural value; can be made
publicly available; are scalable and reusable; and/or serve multiple audi-ences.
One immediate focus will be the use of large-scale data sources – maps,
newspapers, city directories, public records – by scholars and the public in
understanding the history of communities. The lab, accessed at was created
with a startup grant from the college.
“Digital technologies have the potential to transform how our faculty in the
humanities ask questions about the world, engage with local communities,
create learning environments for our students and collaborate with partners
within and beyond the University,” said William L. Andrews, Ph.D., senior as-sociate
dean for the fine arts and humanities in the College.
The lab will build on the nationally funded digital humanities work of
Marciano and Dr. Robert Allen, co-founder and co-director of the lab. Allen is
the James Logan Godfrey Distinguished Professor of American studies, history
and communication studies.
This year the lab will expand two ongoing projects:
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀄀􀀮􂸀􀁂􄈀􀁊􄨀􀁏􄼀􀀁􀄀􀀴􃐀􀁕􅔀􀁓􅌀􀁆􄘀􀁆􄘀􀁕􅔀􀀍􀴀􀀁􀄀􀀤􂐀􀁂􄈀􀁓􅌀􀁐􅀀􀁍􄴀􀁊􄨀􀁏􄼀􀁂􄈀􀀁􀄀􀁊􄨀􀁔􅐀􀀁􀄀􀁂􄈀􀀁􀄀􀁅􄔀􀁊􄨀􀁈􄠀􀁊􄨀􀁕􅔀􀁂􄈀􀁍􄴀􀀁􀄀􀁍􄴀􀁐􅀀􀁄􄐀􀁂􄈀􀁍􄴀􀀁􀄀􀁉􄤀􀁊􄨀􀁔􅐀􀁕􅔀􀁐􅀀􀁓􅌀􀁚􅨀􀀁􀄀􀁑􅄀􀁓􅌀􀁐􅀀􀁈􄠀􀁓􅌀􀁂􄈀􀁎􄸀􀀁􀄀􀁕􅔀􀁉􄤀􀁂􄈀􀁕􅔀􀀁􀄀􀁑􅄀􀁂􄈀􀁓􅌀􀁕􅔀􀁏􄼀􀁆􄘀􀁓􅌀􀁔􅐀􀀁􀄀􀁘􅠀􀁊􄨀􀁕􅔀􀁉􄤀􀀁􀅣
cultural heritage organizations around North Carolina to explore the histories
of the man-made environment and community life. The program, a partner-ship
with the University Library, has produced digital projects with the Levine
Faculty Research: Digital Innovation Lab
This initiative supports the Innovate@Carolina Roadmap, UNC’s plan to help
Carolina become a world leader in launching university-born ideas for the
good of society. To learn more about the roadmap, visit: innovate.unc.edu
"New Deal" (1933 Home Owners' Load
Corporation) meets "Fair Deal" (1949 American
Housing Act): from redlining to urban renewal
(Chien-Yi Hou, Richard Marciano).
The UNC Digital Innovation Lab has pub-lished
the 1937 redlining files for Asheville,
N.C., and integrated them with 1950s-1970s
urban renewal documentation. This is the first
such interactive application demonstrating the
connections between two sets of policies: 1930s
economic and ethnic mortgage policies and
1960s neighborhood redevelopment policies.
Museum of the New South, Preservation Durham, New Hanover County Public
Library and the City of Durham. Four new projects are in development. Main
Street, Carolina received the first Felix Harvey Award for the Advancement of
Institutional Priorities at UNC.
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀄀􀀵􃔀􀀎􀸀􀀳􃌀􀀢􂈀􀀤􂐀􀀦􂘀􀀴􃐀􀀁􀄀􀀉􀤀􀀵􃔀􀁆􄘀􀁔􅐀􀁕􅔀􀁃􄌀􀁆􄘀􀁅􄔀􀀁􀄀􀁇􄜀􀁐􅀀􀁓􅌀􀀁􀄀􀁕􅔀􀁉􄤀􀁆􄘀􀀁􀄀􀀳􃌀􀁆􄘀􀁅􄔀􀁍􄴀􀁊􄨀􀁏􄼀􀁊􄨀􀁏􄼀􀁈􄠀􀀁􀄀􀀢􂈀􀁓􅌀􀁄􄐀􀁉􄤀􀁊􄨀􀁗􅜀􀁆􄘀􀁔􅐀􀀁􀄀􀁐􅀀􀁇􄜀􀀁􀄀􀀤􂐀􀁂􄈀􀁍􄴀􀁊􄨀􀁇􄜀􀁐􅀀􀁓􅌀􀁏􄼀􀁊􄨀􀁂􄈀􀀈􀠀􀁔􅐀􀀁􀄀􀀦􂘀􀁙􅤀􀁄􄐀􀁍􄴀􀁖􅘀􀁔􅐀􀁊􄨀􀁐􅀀􀁏􄼀􀁂􄈀􀁓􅌀􀁚􅨀􀀁􀅓
Spaces) makes publicly available for the first time Depression-era government
real estate maps for eight California cities, which formed the basis for the
“redlining” of selected neighborhoods based on the greatest mortgage-loan risk.
The digitized maps and searchable documentation reveal the extent to which
racial and ethnic factors influenced mortgage policies. In turn, these policies
shaped the history of neighborhoods. The innovative system for analyzing this
previously inaccessible historical data is being adapted for other cities, includ-ing
five in North Carolina.
Under an Interdisciplinary Initiatives Grant from the College, the lab has
begun work on a project called “Connecting People, Past and Place,” a tool kit
for extracting, organizing and representing data from widely available sources
documenting everyday life in early 20th-century America.
The lab’s work reaches into the classroom as well, involving graduate and
undergraduate students. Through Allen’s graduate course on digital history,
students from across the University work in project teams with cultural heritage
organizations to develop and implement Main Street, Carolina projects. This
year, they will team with undergraduate students in his “Main Street, Carolina”
course to document Durham’s Hayti neighborhood and trace Lebanese im-migration
to North Carolina in the early 1900s.
Three of SILS students are involved in the new lab, including: Pam Lach,
lab manager, program manager, “Main Street, Carolina” and SILS graduate
student; Tim Elfenbein, lab associate and SILS graduate student; and Chien-Yi
Hou, technical lead, SILS research associate and SILS doctoral student.
“The opportunity to engage faculty, students, and local communities around
data-driven technology collaborations is very exciting,” said Marciano.
For more information, visit the site at: http://digitalinnovation.unc.edu
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Just a few days after Dr. Helen Tibbo, alumni distinguished professor at the
School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, served as one of the expert instructors and content
developers educating new trainers in the Library of Congress' first national
train-the-trainer workshop on teaching digital preservation, The Signal - Digital
Preservation publication of the Library of Congress published an article titled,
"Digital Preservation Pioneer: Helen Tibbo."
The article describes Dr. Tibbo's historical background including her descen-dants
Miles Standish and John Alden who came to America on the Mayflower,
to her days of teaching junior high school, to her current work teaching and
researching at SILS as well as her activities with the Society of American Archi-vists
as immediate past president. The article also mentions when she began
teaching digital preservation and access.
"In 2000 she started teaching Digital Preservation and Access, one of the
first college courses of its kind in the world. A lot has happened since then and
the class has evolved a great deal but the core assignment hasn’t changed:
students have to produce a grant proposal to send to the Institute for Museum
and Library Services (IMLS). In the process, students get exposed to a real-world
digital-curation environment."
Also highlighted is her research, including grants "where she has been
PI, have brought in over $5 million to SILS and have produced a framework
for digital curation curricula. One of the most powerful is the IMLS-funded
Digital Curation Curriculum project, also known as DigCCurr (pronounced
“dij – seeker”), which defines what digital curators do and what they need
to know in the 21st century. DigCCurr’s curriculum applies to international
digital curation."
Helen Tibbo: Digital Preservation Pioneer
Tibbo describes the future of digital curation, which she believes looks good
for those who are choosing digital archiving as a career choice.
“Our generation has done a lot of thinking about digital curation,” said
Tibbo. “The next generation will do the work. And make great strides. They
will be the real pioneers.”
"We all recognize Helen as a trailblazer in digital curation and preservation
here at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other institutions
around the world," said Dr. Gary Marchionini, SILS dean and Cary C. Boshamer
Distinguished Professor. "The body of work she has completed is impressive and
we're pleased that the Library of Congress recognizes her vision and talents in
this profile. She is the perfect person to educate future leaders in the field of
digital preservation and outreach."
The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program
The Library of Congress launched a new corps of digital preservation trainers
through its Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) program on
September 20-23, 2011, in Washington, D.C. The intent of the DPOE Baseline
Workshop was to produce a corps of trainers who are equipped to teach others,
in their home regions across the U.S., the basic principles and practices of pre-serving
digital materials. Examples of such materials include Web sites; e-mail
messages; digital photos, music and videos; and official records.
The 24 students in the workshop are professionals from a variety of back-grounds
who were selected from a nation-wide applicant pool to represent their
home regions, and who have at least some familiarity with community-based
training and with digital preservation.
George Coulbourne, executive program officer in the Library's Office of
Strategic Initiatives, commented, "Dr. Tibbo has been a strong supporter of
DPOE since its inception, and has contributed to the program in an advisory
capacity as well. She brought the same level of commitment and expertise, from
her long experience in digital preservation education, to this workshop and to
the module that she taught."
Other educators who joined Tibbo in instructing the students included
subject matter experts:
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅎 Nancy McGovern, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research, University of Michigan
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅒 Robin Dale, LYRASIS
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅍 Mary Molinaro, University of Kentucky Libraries
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅋 Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute and MetaArchive Cooperative
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅍 Michael Thuman, Tessella
The curriculum was developed by the DPOE staff and expert volunteer
advisors and informed by DPOE-conducted research including a nation-wide
needs-assessment survey and a review of curricula in existing training programs.
An outcome of the September workshop will be for each participant to, in turn,
hold at least one basic-level digital-preservation workshop in his or her home
U.S. region by mid-2012.
The workshop shared high-quality training in digital preservation, based
upon a standardized set of core principles, across the nation. In time, the goal
is to make the training available and affordable to virtually any interested
organization or individual.
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SILS 80th Anniversary Kicks-Off
The School of Information and Library Science kicked off its 80th
anniversary with a tailgate barbecue on September 17, 2011, the same
day the School first held classes in 1931. More than 120 alumni, faculty,
students, staff and friends attended the event that was held on the lawn
in front of Manning Hall.
In addition to a reunion on a brisk fall day - complete with east
Carolina barbecue, the Tar Heel Marching Band treated everyone to
musical entertainment. Dean Gary Marchionini welcomed guests and
SILS Alumni Association president, Kim Duckett (MSLS ’01), presented
David Goble (MSLS ’94), State Librarian of South Carolina, with a distin-guished
alumnus award, and along with the immediate past president,
David Woodbury (MSIS ‘09), unveiled a wooden plaque that includes
the names of all of the School’s distinguished alumni on small, brass
plates. The plaque now hangs outside of the SILS administrative offices
in Manning Hall. The two also unveiled a special document that lists
over 600 names of the SILSAA Lifetime Members. The framed recogni-tion
document will hang in Manning Hall where it will continue to
recognize these alumni.
Following the formal presentations, the grandsons of the School’s
founder, Louis Round Wilson, Dean and Louis Round Wilson Edmonds
blew out the candles of the birthday cake to officially mark the beginning
of the year-long celebration.
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The kick-off continued with the Lucile Kelling Henderson Lecture on
Friday, September 23. Dr. Fred W. Roper (MSLS ‘62), distinguished dean
emeritus of the University of South Carolina's School of Library and
Information Science and SILS distinguished alumnus, presented, “On
the shoulders of giants: How SILS achieved the national championship
in Library and Information Science," in the George Watts Hill Alumni
Center to a crowd of more than 100. The multi-media presentation
included an historical overview of the School that began with Louis
Round Wilson’s quest for a library School and the Carnegie Foundation’s
grant of $100,000 that allowed its beginning, to the many outstanding
people who made the School what it is today. The presentation included
video clips of Dean Ed Holley and many photos that stirred memories.
In addition to a moving introduction by Dr. Barbara B. Moran, North
Carolina State Librarian, Mary Boone (MSLS ‘73) and North Carolina
State Representative Alice Bordsen (MSLS ‘83) provided brief remarks
about SILS and how the education they received has helped them in
their careers. The a cappella group, the Loreleis, provided musical
entertainment before breaking for a reception.
For those who were unable to attend the lecture, the video of
Dr. Roper’s presentation is available on the SILS Vimeo channel
at: vimeo.com/30378860. Photos taken during the event are also
available on the SILS Flickr site at: www.flickr.com/photos/uncsils/
sets/72157627617870349/.
SILS 80th Anniversary Kicks-Off
I went to SILS immediately after undergrad. Right after graduation
from SILS, I was hired as an intern at the Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress (20 years later, I'm still here). Soon after
I arrived on Capitol Hill, the librarian who interviewed me (over
the phone!) told me that if I had gone to a lower-ranked school with
a shorter program, I probably would not have gotten the job. That
extra semester of coursework and number one ranking, made a
big difference.
~Jennifer E. Manning
Information Research Specialist
Library of Congress
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SILS 80th Anniversary Kicks-Off
On Saturday, September 24, the School hosted an open house with several activities
taking place, some simultaneously. SILS Librarian, Rebecca Vargha and her students
created a special exhibit in the Wilson Library titled, “UNC School of Information and
Library Science: 80 years of building our information future.” The four-cased exhibit
included photos of historical moments in SILS history. At the same time, a SILS historical
PowerPoint presentation was offered and an architectural walking tour of campus was
led by Will Owen, associate university librarian. Just before noon, children and adults
were entertained by storytelling activities presented by Dr. Brian Sturm, SILS associate
professor. The children then took part in creating Live Angry Birds as a craft activity. The
SILS Book Group discussed This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians
Can Save Us All while Student Services staff, Lara Bailey and Kaitlyn Murphy discussed
our programs with potential students. A lively “Research Madness” event provided
opportunities for student and faculty to share their research in a three minute timed
setting. Those in attendance had an opportunity to view the presentations more closely
on the large monitors in the lobby of Manning Hall during a reception.
My time at SILS was somewhat unusual as I was part of class that did "The Block" over the course of two summers and was composed of mostly
librarians from Virginia and a few others, including myself and some other staff members from UNC-CH. I was incredibly fortunate to be able to
use my employee "free tuition" benefit to cover much of my tuition costs while I was a full-time employee. I then transitioned to a graduate assistant
position for a year before receiving my MSLS in Aug. 1982. My supervisor and colleagues were very supportive. It was a good experience for me!
~Eleanor I. Cook (MSLS ‘82), Assistant Director of Collections & Technical Services
Academic Library Services, Joyner Library, East Carolina University
Building Our Information Future!
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SILS 80th Anniversary Kicks-Off
The final event of the kick-off celebration was the Susan Steinfirst Memorial Lecture in Children’s Literature. The Lecture was held on Sunday, September 25th
at Gerard Hall and featured award winning Korean-American author of picture books and novels for children, Linda Sue Park. Park has published works such
as The Firekeeper's Son, Seesaw Girl, The Kite Fighters and Yum! Yuck! to name a few. Dr. Gary Marchionini welcomed guests to the campus and introduced
special speakers from the State, Mary Boone, North Carolina State Librarian, who offered remarks about her experiences at SILS and the value of libraries and
books. Representative Alice Bordsen shared personal thoughts and experiences during her time at SILS as well as her interactions with her mentor, Dr. Steinfirst.
Dr. Sandra Hughes-Hassell, professor, another student of Dr. Steinfirst during her time at SILS, introduced the speaker. Park shared her experiences that led to her
most recent book, A Long Walk to Water in an educational and entertaining visual presentation that captured the audience. Dr. Brian Sturm, associate professor,
closed the program with an invitation to a book signing and a reception that was held at the Campus Y.M.C.A. A great time was had by all.
I have nothing but good remembrances of my library school years. Though I
feared Dr. Doralyn Hickey when I took cataloging under her, I learned later,
when she was my thesis advisor, just how lucky I was. My thesis involved
creating a subject heading list for a special religious collection (actually
where I now work). Had I known just what I was getting into I probably
would not have chosen that area. However, to Dr. Hickey, the area was just
second nature and she helped me immeasurably. I could go on, but the
epistle would be too long. I must mention another couple of dear persons
who served as Dean. Margaret Kalp and Ed Holley were just the greatest.
~Gary Barefoot, AB ’61, MSLS ‘68
Past President, SILS Alumni Association
Curator, Free Will Baptist Historical Collection
Moye Library, Mount Olive College
I applied for and was accepted in the first SILS doctoral class and was one
of the first recipients of the Louis Round Wilson Scholarship. Dr. Ed Holley.
was very selective about students he selected for advisees. I was fortunate
that he chose me and later became a mentor and friend. One story that I
told Dr. Holley concerned Dr. Asheim. After finishing my course work at
SILS, I had taken a director's job at Shepherd College in West Virginia, but
had returned for some ceremony at Chapel Hill where Les Asheim sat beside
me, and we passed notes. Passing notes with the great Les Asheim became a
fond memory and a rite of passage from student to colleague.
~George Gaumond, Ph.D. ’88
Director of the Library (Retired)
Valdosta State University
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David Iberkleid: Providing Access
It was the normal volunteering thing to do, share information about com-puting
through the Community Workshop Series offered by Davis Library of UNC
at Chapel Hill. It was through this effort that SILS alumnus, David Iberkleid
(MSIS ‘10) found his calling – helping the many Latino families in the local
community to learn how to access needed information.
While still in school at SILS, Iberkleid began teaching computer skills to
families in Carrboro Elementary School and later volunteering at the Hispanic
Centers in both Carrboro and Durham. Originally from La Paz, Bolivia, Iberkleid
could speak the language and help Latinos who were applying for jobs online,
showing them how to access their bank accounts and explaining how to protect
their children from online predators. He quickly learned that the skill levels and
interests of his students were varied. He needed a better teaching mechanism.
It took time to develop the right teaching method. He found that classes for
large groups held at regular time intervals failed. So he developed a flexible
course structure. Lower job security and higher incidence of late-night shifts
were two factors that presented a barrier to regular attendance. In addition,
Iberkleid noticed that students were embarrassed about their lack of computer
knowledge and overall literacy. “Shame grows over time and leads to decreas-ing
attendance as some students advance faster than others,” said Iberkleid.
He also noticed that niche interests and learning objectives among students
were too diverse and ended up dividing his attention and lowering the amount
of help they would be able to get in a one-on-one lesson. Helping them access
private financial information online was out of the question because peers
were present. For these reasons and more, one-on-one lessons during their
preferred time and place proved far more appropriate. As a member of CALA,
Iberkleid worked with the Web team at the Davis Library. With a networking tip
from library staff member Cynthia Baker, he met Judith Blau, founder of the
Chapel Hill and Carrboro Human Rights Center (HRC) located in Abbey Court,
an apartment complex densely populated with Latinos where he continued to
volunteer. He joined the board of the HRC, and grew more and more passionate
about providing access to those who needed it.
“I never saw myself as a human rights activist,” says Iberkleid. “My interest
was to bring technology to the Latino community so they could be better served.
But then I learned that the United Nations proclaimed access to information a
human right and essentially discovered I was serving a human right already.”
The one-on-one lessons really helped Iberkleid in his research and user-interface
design process.
“Building trust is key,” he said. “When I would help someone, word would
spread and people would come to me and invite me to their homes. The best
ethnographic insight was gathered around the dinner table, after a lesson. It
was a great usability study. I had a large focus group, and could see firsthand
how my clients used the computer and learned what their needs really were.”
Quickly expanding, Iberkleid decided to make his efforts official and es-tablished
the Web site whyequals.com. The mission behind the name is to
go into communities and help people gain access to information. Inspired by
the incredible need of the Latino community to access information, he began
thinking of tools that would help them.
He created another Web site using open source software with the help of an
intern. The site provided access to topics such as jobs that funneled Craigslist
content into RSS feeds, automatically translating them using Babel fish and
Yahoo! pipes. “We were basically trying to ‘curate’ the Web for our audience,” he
said. He helped simplify it as much as possible, but it wasn’t enough. The Web
was still too difficult for his clients to navigate. That’s when he asked himself,
“How can I help them to have this experience without going to the Web?”
Iberkleid recognized that nearly every Latino carried a cell phone, often
with unlimited text messaging capability. He decided to create the application,
ReK2 (re-cah-dos), which when translated to Spanish means “messages.”
Through ReK2, he can send text messages to subscribers who then share
the information with their friends and families.
“Latinos often forward text messages – something that I didn’t even know
was possible,” said Iberkleid. “The messages can be of a variety of categories
including information about jobs, news, weather reports and emergency mes-sages
or events.”
In just a few months, the service has caught on with the Latino community.
He now has more than 1,400 followers from the Southeast U.S. He and volunteers
create and send approximately 50,000 messages per month, providing access to
information that was previously unavailable. Like other social networks, each
follower can also make an announcement. For example, if someone wants to sell
a car, he or she texts an ad to Iberkleid’s service and he forwards it to neighbors.
“It hits their market, has an immediate response, saves time using technology
they’re familiar with and that is easy for them,” says Iberkleid.
Donating much of his time toward developing the application, he has now
begun working to gain the participation of businesses and organizations to help
sustain his efforts. He is working with local businesses to help them understand
the value of providing information to the Latino market. “Businesses can do
the same thing I do – all they need is to use the app I built,” Iberkleid says.
Iberkleid’s ultimate goal is to create a nationwide outreach solution for
businesses and organizations that is a fit for this market, which is a difficult
market to reach. For now, he’s working with the Latino community to bring
them channels through ReK2 to assist with their communication.
Gaining in popularity in the Latino community, ReK2 has also caught the
eye of several organizations. On December 22, 2011, he received the “Premio a la
Innovacion 2011” award from the Atlanta Club de Comerciantes for his innova-tive
work. He continues toward his goal of helping people access information.
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Irene Owens isn’t your typical librarian. In fact, she says there is really no
such thing. She and her colleagues and peers across the state and nation are
bona fide information scientists, a discipline that is gaining popularity among
undergraduate and graduate students at UNC and other area institutions as well.
As an alumna of the UNC School of Information and Library Science’s
doctoral program, class of 1995, and current dean of North Carolina Central
University’s School of Library and Information Science, Owens is excited about
the prospects and is intent upon fostering the idea that library science is “cool,”
particularly among minority students and especially young men.
“Gone are the days when a ‘librarian’ was a custodian of endless card
catalogues and dusty book stacks,” she said. “In today’s ever-changing digital
information landscape, advanced information science professionals will be
critical in harnessing, storing and accessing the vast amounts of data that are
being created on a daily basis.”
More importantly, she said, library science is an evolving discipline that is
attracting a vibrant and diverse cohort of students in addition to the traditional
graduate-level scholar most often associated with librarianship. Owens is work-ing
to continue that trend.
“I was fortunate throughout my academic career to have tremendous role
models who were truly committed to helping me succeed,” she said. “The ability
to point to a young African-American, American Indian or Asian peer as a prime
example of what is attainable carries much more weight among students than
anything I could say. I am a strong advocate for cross-cultural and cross-gender
mentoring because that is one of the things that defines a premier program.”
As UNC’s SILS celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, it is also celebrating
its ranking by U.S. News & World Report as the leading information science
program in the country. The school’s reputation for outstanding professional
development in a collegial atmosphere is the main reason Owens decided to
come here.
“I got my Ph.D. partly because I was encouraged to do so and because I
needed a new challenge,” Owens said. “I came to UNC to get my Ph.D. because
it was the perfect fit. I loved the environment of the campus as a whole and
rarely missed the opportunity to dance in the Pit at the annual American
Indian Powwow.”
Owens said her passion for information science was ignited when she worked
at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. early in her career.
Alumni Spotlight: Dean Irene Owens
“Once I recovered from the sheer awe of the place, I was drawn in completely
by the collaborative environment,” she said. “I want to emulate that and incite
that same kind of passion in our students so that they, in turn, will have their
path chosen for them as mine was for me.”
Owens' career has taken her across the country and around the world. Prior
to her appointment at NCCU, she spent a decade at the University of Texas
at Austin in the Graduate School of Information, and was the first African-
American to receive tenure there. She is a former head librarian at Howard
University School of Divinity.
Her numerous accolades include the Howard University Outstanding
Service Award, the University of Texas Excellence in Teaching Award, the UNC
Distinguished Alumni Award, the NCLA Library Education Award, the Demco/
BCALA Award for Excellence in Librarianship and the National Council of Negro
Women Award for Distinguished Professional Achievements. In addition to her
Ph.D. from UNC, Owens holds a M.A.R.S. from Howard University, a M.L.S. from
the University of Maryland and a B.S. from Barber-Scotia College.
Written by Hope Baptiste. Reprinted with permission from Celebrating Carolina's
Diversity, The newsletter of the Alumni Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity.
“Gone are the days when a ‘librarian’ was a
custodian of endless card catalogues and dusty
book stacks. In today’s ever-changing digital
information landscape, advanced information
science professionals will be critical in harness-ing,
storing and accessing the vast amounts of
data that are being created on a daily basis.”
Irene Owens (Ph.D. ‘95)
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apologize and invite you to contact SILS director of
development Stephanie Cole ’81 at stephanie_cole@
unc.edu or 919-843-9378.
Elaine E. Teague
Teresa Renee Teague '92
Natalie Tunstall Tennant '64
Linda Kay Ter Haar '89
Martha Kendrick Tesoro '62, '65, '90
Lynda Herman Thomas '74
Mary Ellen Thomas '64
Dorothy Gilliam Thomason '65
Rita Thompson-Joyner '80
Mary Wise Thuesen '67, '67
Helen R. Tibbo
Walter Alan Tuttle '71
Ann Therese Unger '80
United Way of Greater Rochester
Stephen Henry Van Dyk '74
K.T. L. Vaughan '01
George Brookins Viele '69
Julie White Walker '80, '83
Richard R. Walker
Thomas Burke Wall '84
Karen Brown Waller '88, '03
Mary Louise Waller '8
Kenneth Gaines Walter '63
Sally Hill Wambold '79
Lynn Morrow Ward '69
Cheryl Stevenson Warren '71
Dorothea Furber Wassmann '48
Garth S. Watkins '07, '08
Jessica Lee Weber '10
Deborah Kay Webster '74
Laurel Susan Webster '71
Emily M. Weiss '05
Meredith Leigh Weiss '10
Mary Burt Welker '65 and J. Franklin Welker Jr. '66
Donald James Welsh '81
Lisa Clemons Wemett '75
Mary Lee Newby Wetzel '69, '72 and James
Normal Wetzel '75
Peggy Whalen-Levitt '69
Donald Barnes White '55, '73
Donna Corriher Will '84
Betty Hipp Williams '65
Delmus Eugene Williams '85
Lisa Wall Williams '81
Ronald Dale Williams '71
Martha Jenkins Williamson '50
Cynthia Jean Wolff '87
Marilyn McLean Wood '70 and William Zeno
Wood Jr. '69, '72
David Noah Woodbury '09
Toni Lin Wooten '93
Beverly Bebout Worsham '68
Karissa Coburn Wrenn '06
Xiaohong Yang '00
Robert Francis Yehl '78, '79
Barbara Yonce '72
Douglas Graham Young '88
Michael Luther Zaretsky 90
Thank you for investing in SILS
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􀀶􃘀􀁗􅜀􀁒􅈀􀁕􅔀􀁜􅰀􀀐􁀀􀀶􃘀􀁗􅜀􀁈􄠀􀁌􄰀􀁑􅄀􀃀􌀀􀁕􅔀􀁖􅘀􀁗􅜀􀀃􀌀􀀶􃘀􀁆􄘀􀁋􄬀􀁒􅈀􀁏􄼀􀁄􄐀􀁕􅔀􀁖􅘀􀁋􄬀􀁌􄰀􀁓􅌀􀁖􅘀􀀃􀌀􀁓􅌀􀁕􅔀􀁒􅈀􀁙􅤀􀁌􄰀􀁇􄜀􀁈􄠀􀀃􀌀􀁒􅈀􀁓􅌀􀁓􅌀􀁒􅈀􀁕􅔀􀁗􅜀􀁘􅠀􀁑􅄀􀁌􄰀􀁗􅜀􀁌􄰀􀁈􄠀􀁖􅘀􀀃􀌀􀁉􄤀􀁒􅈀􀁕􅔀􀀃􀌀􀀶􃘀􀀬􂰀􀀯􂼀􀀶􃘀􀀃􀌀􀁖􅘀􀁗􅜀􀁘􅠀􀁇􄜀􀁈􄠀􀁑􅄀􀁗􅜀􀁖􅙕
Undergraduates receive $1,000 scholarships
Two $1,000 merit-based scholarships for newly admitted undergraduates
in SILS’ BSIS program have been awarded to Benito Luciano and Katie
Hawthorne. The scholarships, which are awarded spring and fall semesters
to students who meet the criteria of high scholastic achievement and a stellar
essay, will be effective spring 2012.
“I've taken many different paths so far in my undergraduate career, each
one getting me a little closer to the abstract, misleading concept of what I want
to do with my life,” said Hawthorne. “Before I switched into the School from
Chemistry, I talked to Dr. Marchionini to figure out if this was the right place for
me. I think it is. I think I finally found it! This scholarship shows me that SILS
believes in me as well. Even being so new to the school, I realized that a lot of
the subject matter has been churning in my head for years, and it wasn't until
I found SILS that I could put a name on the field. It's a fantastic program, and
I'm lucky to have found such a wonderful opportunity at UNC. I'm excited to
be a part of SILS, and I'm looking forward to the semesters to come.”
“Against unusual odds and circumstances, my admittance into the SILS
information science program proves to me and my family that if you ask and
believe with a sincere heart no dream is impossible for God to bring to life,”
said Luciano.
Hawthorne and Luciano join a rapidly-growing undergraduate major, and,
even in difficult economic conditions,
one of the most promising in terms of job
prospects. A 2009 “First Destination Sur-vey”
by the University's Career Services
found that students graduating with a
bachelor's degree in information science
had the highest rate of employment (85.7
percent). UNC Chapel Hill has the only
bachelor’s in information science degree
program in North Carolina.
Two $1,000 scholarships will once
again be offered for the fall semester for
newly admitted students in the BSIS ma-jor
who meet the criteria. Undergraduate
students who have completed at least
the first semester of their sophomore
year may apply for admission. For those
interested in learning more about the
BSIS program, an information session
is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 8 in
Thanks to the generosity of Gene Story, friend of the School and husband
of the late Dr. Susan Steinfirst, four deserving students had the burden of
their tuition eased with the very first award of the Susan Steinfirst/Gene Story
Scholarship. The scholarship, which was established in 2010 by Story to support
graduate students in the School of Information and Library Science, provided
funding this year for students who specialize in the area of children’s literature.
The recipients each met the criteria of academic merit, financial need and
a desire to specialize in the area of children’s literature. They are Katherine
Barr, Kristen Street, Megan England Ward and Courtney Minton.
Barr is a 2007 graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a degree in art his-tory
and French. She has worked at her local public library, the Mount Holyoke
Library and at the Bridgeman Art Library in London—experiences that have
fueled her passion for learning. Eager to share this passion with others, she is
broadly interested in children’s services and also aims to use her time at SILS
to enhance her technical skills.
Street is interested in Youth Services and community-integration resources
for speakers of English as a second language—particularly Spanish speakers,
as she has spent time in Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador. She majored in
creative writing at Appalachian State University and worked for two years in the
Watauga County Public Library, most of the time as a Youth Services Specialist.
Ward holds a degree in digital arts from Stetson University and a degree
in music from the University of Virginia. She has researched graphic novels,
identity performance and LGBTQ issues and she is eager to continue researching
these topics with a focus on children and teens.
Minton is a 2006 graduate of the University of Georgia with degrees in ad-vertising
and sociology. She has worked as an account coordinator for a global
Internet advertising agency and as a search engine optimization, strategist for
a search marketing firm in Atlanta, GA. She developed a passion for children’s
literacy while volunteering at an orphanage in Kenya and mentoring at a shelter
for women and children in Atlanta and hopes to gain employment as a school
library media specialist after graduation.
The Story Behind the Scholarship
The story of how the scholarship came to be is nearly as interesting as the
recipients themselves. In 2010, when Gary Marchionini became dean of the
School, he realized that an endowment established by Story in 1997 to honor
the memory of his wife Susan Steinfirst, had a large build-up of unused fund-ing.
Story and family had endowed the fund to provide a biennial lecture in
children’s literature, and because of careful, wise expenditure, the School had
hosted successful lectures without using the full spending allocation generated
by the endowment, and over time, the unused monies had accrued to a substan-tial
sum. Since student support is a major priority for the School, Marchionini
approached Story and proposed the overage be used to fund scholarships for stu-dents
interested in studying children’s literature. Story enthusiastically agreed.
Dr. Steinfirst was a professor of children’s and young adult literature at
SILS from 1976 to 1996. Known for her dedication to her students and her
equanimity and humor in staff meetings, Susan left an indelible imprint on
her colleagues and the School.
Manning Hall at 5 p.m. in room 208 to learn more. Pizza and refreshments
will be served.
Donations Fund Scholarships
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SILS: Serving Communities
As part of an ongoing literacy and engagement outreach endeavor, Brian
Sturm, associate professor, takes his storytelling class students into the com-munity
to share folktales from around the world. His class visits area schools
and libraries to share stories with children, and they visit senior centers and
other cultural institutions - such as the Morehead Planetarium and the Wilson
Library - to share stories with families.
“The art of storytelling,” says Sturm, “is a means of building shared under-standing
and community. These tales - which have been passed down through
the generations and have been distilled to their essential elements - survive only
because they speak to fundamental human needs and aspirations that we all
share. In early, oral cultures, 'bad' stories simply weren’t retold, and hence the
stories that survived had enough impact on their listeners to be perpetuated.”
As the class has progressed over the 13 years Sturm has taught at UNC -SILS,
demand for his storytelling students has grown.
On September 18, 2011, UNC students, faculty and staff gathered for the
dedication of ten new homes constructed over the past year as part of the
Build-A-Block project. These homes were built for UNC staff and Hospital
employees and their families and were the product of 7,052 hours of labor by
1,400 members of the University community.
Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, and UNC
at Chapel Hill alumnus, congratulated all who were involved in the building
and fundraising efforts, and welcomed the families to their new homes. He
praised his alma mater for the ambitious effort that went into building ten
homes for the families.
The Build-A-Block project was brought to light by student Megan Jones who
asked the University to become involved with the effort to provide housing for
families in need. The building was accomplished through the efforts of the
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County as a response to the record number of
University employees who qualified for low-income housing last year.
Build-a-block dedication addition to remarks from Patti Thorp, who
welcomed the audience to the ceremony and introduced Megan Jones; Susan
Levy, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Orange County; Latesha
Foushee, one of the homeowners; Chancellor Holden Thorp; and Reckford,
Sturm claims, “I get calls all the time seeking storytellers for various events,
and I'm often at a loss to find local, professional storytellers to fill these op-portunities.
That's when the idea of a formal organization began to take shape,
and StorySquad was born.”
While still in development, StorySquad is being designed as a community
intervention to help young children gain pre-literacy skills, to help older children
develop a concept of story structure and build visual literacy skills and imagina-tion,
and to help older adults retain their mental agility and imagination and
reflect on their lives from new perspectives. Sturm concludes, “When we share
stories, whether they are personal stories or folk tales, we open our ideas to each
other and make ourselves emotionally vulnerable. In this way, we connect with
each other across our often divided perspectives. It is my hope that StorySquad
can become a larger initiative that offers cultural organizations a chance to
include storytelling and folklore in their outreach and service.”
Gary Marchionini, SILS dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor,
represented those who were named champions of the Build-A-Block project
during the dedication and praised the project for connecting diverse university
departments by bringing them together for a common cause.
The champions were recognized for their involvement with the project and
each was presented a special hammer with the unit’s name inscribed on the
handle. A Carolina blue bow was attached.
The final fund-raising effort by the Carolina Library Community Build-A-Block
Champion Group was a trivia night held in Wilson Library on November
4, 2011. With more than 100 in attendance and 21 teams, the fun event raised
an additional $1538. The match challenge from Sarah Michalak, associate
provost for Libraries and university librarian and Dean Marchionini put the
grand total for the evening at $2,538.
Thanks to all who helped with the build by hammering nails, raising funds,
donating money and/or time, contributing prizes, providing baked goods,
spreading the word to colleagues and friends and supporting this important
community project that has provided homes to the families in need. Your efforts
are truly appreciated.
Habitat for Humanity Build-A-Block Dedication
StorySquad Initiative Opens Ideas
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The “Men of the Stacks” calendar includes 12 months of photos of male
librarians and has been featured in publications such as The Village Voice,
The New Yorker, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Entertainment Weekly,
Glamour, The LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Sundance Channel,
Independent (UK), Vogue Italia, and Oprah’s blog. Managed by Megan Perez
(MSLS ‘07), the calendar includes photos of two of SILS alumnus, Perez, Mr.
November and Josiah Drewry (MSLS ‘07) Mr. September. Proceeds from the
sales of the calendar go to the It Gets Better Project™, a program that inspires
young people who are LGBT to keep their heads up in spite of bullying.
In just two months, more than 1,000 copies have been sold and over $18,000
raised. The calendars have been shipped to more than 500 locations worldwide.
“This project has a twofold purpose: We want to rattle the stereotype of the
librarian as it’s existed in the American consciousness for the last 150 years
or so, and we want to do a greater good at the same time,” said Perez. “We’re
helping to serve something bigger than ourselves. This is not about trying to
compete with a calendar of fireman - it’s about changing stereotypes and also
supporting a noble cause, which is an anti-bullying campaign.”
Perez and his colleagues
created the project without a
single source of funding. Perez
solicited volunteers to host and
customize the calendar’s Web
site, and the men did all of the
marketing themselves. The Web
site was created by another SILS
alumna, Sarah Nicole Kahn
(MSLS ‘08)
"In times like these, selfless
giving needs to be built into
the very foundation of the new
human condition," said Perez.
"It's possible to have fun while serving a greater good at the same time."
For more about the calendar, please go to the Web site at: menofthestacks.com/
“Men of the Stacks” worldwide calendar sales prevents bullying
contributing to North Carolina and the global community
Continuously contributing to the local and state communities via electronic
access, ibiblio.org is one of the world’s first Web sites and largest “collections
of collections” on the Internet. It is a conservancy of freely available informa-tion,
including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics and
cultural studies.
The site provides 24 hour a day, seven days a week access to resources for
anyone who has a Web browser. ibiblio.org allows access to thousands of sites
including a section specific to North Carolina resources. A sampling of just
some of the not for profit organizations accessible through ibiblio.org include:
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅏 Orange County North Carolina recordings provide access to audio
recordings of commissioners, local School meetings and more.
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅅 EMpowerME, Orange County services available to victims of interper-sonal
violence.
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅃 Carolina Transportation Program which focuses on “transportation
planning, transit, non-motorized transportation, and land use.”
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅎 Nourish International “sets up fundraising business enterprises to
finance and implements sustainable food sources for communities.”
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅃 Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission is a non-profit commission that
promotes awareness and understanding of the arts.
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅔 The Carrboro Poetry Festival “contains information about the Carrboro
Poetry Festival, and features a comprehensive mp3 audio archive.”
􀁴􇐀􀀁􀅐 Plant Information Center - “a searchable database with digitized her-barium
specimens” (developed by SILS faculty and students)
“For over 20 years, ibiblio has hosted and fostered information sharing for
not for profit organizations, locally, regionally and statewide,” said Paul Jones,
director of ibiblio and clinical associate professor at SILS and the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication. “We curremtly host over 150 not for
profit sites for North Carolina.”
Ibiblio.org was founded as sunsite.unc.edu in 1992 with the support of Sun
Microsystems. In September of 2000, ibiblio.org was formed as a collaboration
between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s MetaLab, formerly
known as SunSITE, and the Center for the Public Domain. At UNC at Chapel
Hill, ibiblio is supported by SILS, the School of Journalism and Mass Commu-nication,
Information Technology Services, the UNC at Chapel Hill Libraries
and the Office of the Executive Chancellor and Provost. ibiblio is housed in the
School of Information and Library Science located in Manning Hall.
SILS: Serving Communities
SILS builds initial Web site - provides server space for North Carolina Parks System
In the mid-1990s North Carolina State Parks became one of the first in the
county to host a state parks Web site thanks in part to a class assignment at SILS.
It was during that time that Tom Howard, naturalist at NC Parks, was ap-proached
by three SILS students to talk about the possibility of creating a Web
site for the organization. Howard was very interested, especially since he had been
gathering information about the parks and saving it in HyperCard on a Mac.
The students designed the site, which was well received by Howard and those
who accessed the site. Early users of the Web site were overjoyed to find such
a tremendous amount of information at their fingertips.
The initial design endured on the NC Parks Web site for more than five
years before being redesigned. Initially hosted in one of the student’s home
folders, the site was moved to a Web server at SILS and has been served by SILS
since its creation, providing a valuable service to the state of North Carolina.
To access the site, go to: ncparks.gov
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􀀤􂐀􀀃􀌀􀀶􃘀􀀬􂰀􀀯􂼀􀀶􃘀􀀃􀌀􀀺􃨀􀁈􄠀􀁏􄼀􀁆􄘀􀁒􅈀􀁐􅀀􀁈􄠀􀀃􀌀􀁗􅜀􀁒􅈀􀀑􁄀􀀃􀌀􀀑􁄀􀀃􀌀􀀑􁄀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀􀀃􀌀SILS and EPA Library Welcomes Thea Allen
SILS welcomes Thea Allen (MSLS ’07), who
joined the United States Environmental Protec-tion
Agency Library in Research Triangle Park as
Interlibrary Loan/Cataloging Librarian on October
17, 2011.
Allen returns to the EPA Library, where she
previously worked as a a library assistant in Interli-brary
Loan and Serials while pursuing her master’s
degree at SILS, from the Environmental Protection
Agency Headquarters and Chemical Libraries in
Washington, D.C. where she served as a cataloging librarian. Her duties there
included being the primary cataloger for the EPA's Headquarters and Chemical
SILS is a mul-ticultural
place, and
nowhere is SILS’ com-mitment
to bringing
diverse perspectives to
our intellectual com-munity
more evident
than in the range of
international scholars,
both visiting scholars
and research collabora-tors,
who spend time working with faculty sponsors at Manning Hall.
Dr. Kun Huang is visiting SILS from her home institution, Beijing Normal
University in Beijing, China, where she is associate professor in the Department
of Information Management at the School of Management. Dr. Huang’s primary
research interest is in image information retrieval. In her time at SILS, she has
collaborated with her faculty sponsor, Dr. Diane Kelly, Frances Carroll McColl
Term Professor, and SILS doctoral student Wan-Ching Wu on a project examin-ing
how people evaluate query quality in information search.
Visiting scholar, Huabing Qiu, is a librarian in Wuhan – the capital of Hubei
province in central China – at the Wuhan Branch of the National Sciences
Library, a part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Qiu’s research focuses on
information seeking behavior and metadata information literacy. Qiu works
with faculty sponsors, Dr. Brad Hemminger, associate professor, and Dr. Jane
Greenberg, professor, on understanding the information seeking behavior of
graduate students in the sciences and how they manage their datasets.
Dr. Fenglin Li began his year-long stint at SILS sponsored by Dean Gary
Marchionini. Dr. Li is a professor at the School of Information Management at
Wuhan University. His research will focus on aspects of cognitive architecture
related to information needs analysis. By applying theoretical aspects of cognitive
and behavioral science to information needs research, Dr. Li will examine how
psychological factors, such as an individual’s motivation, interest and knowledge
affect a person’s conscious or unconscious need to locate information.
As the SILS community gets to know these international scholars, it also bid
a fond farewell to those whose time at Manning Hall drew to a close. Dr. Xiaojie
Zong returned to her position on the faculty of the School of Computer Science
and Information Engineering at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou,
eastern China. Sponsored by Dr. Deborah Barreau, Frances Carroll McColl Term
Professor, Dr. Zong has furthered her research interests in information systems
design and the management of information systems in organizations, complet-ing
a couple of papers that were accepted for publication in China.
Dr. Özgür Külcü and Hande Uzun Külcü from Ankara, Turkey also visited
SILS this past year. This husband-and-wife team’s time at SILS was sponsored
by Dr. Barbara Moran, Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor. Dr. Külcü
is an associate professor in the Department of Information Management at
Hacettepe University. Mrs. Külcü is a senior records manager at the Turkish Red
Crescent Society. Their research focuses on electronic information systems and
developing metadata tags for archival resources. From June 20 to September 30,
the Külcüs visited information centers, record centers, archives and museums
around the Research Triangle and in Washington, D.C. and New York City, as
well as attending conferences and classes. The Külcüs are highly involved with
the Turkish team of the InterPARES 3 (International Research on Permanent
Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) project, which seeks to “translate the
theory and methods of digital preservation developed by InterPARES… into
concrete action plans for existing bodies of records that are to be kept over the
long term by archives – and archival/records units within organizations –
endowed with limited resources.”
“International visitors serve multiple aspects of the SILS mission,” said Dr.
Gary Marchionini, dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor. “First,
they bring alternative experiences and insights to our educational program. By
sharing their unique perspectives, our students and faculty learn contexts for our
own studies and have foils to reflect upon our own practices (e.g., a librarian
who comes from a culture of closed stacks surprises most American students
who typically only know about libraries with open stacks). Second, these visitors
act as ambassadors from SILS to their native lands. These links lead to student
applications, collaborative research, and exchange for our students and faculty.”
International Scholars visit SILS
libraries and part-time original cataloger for three remote regional EPA libraries.
Allen also has worked as a special project cataloger at Wilson Library at
the UNC at Chapel Hill where she cataloged items in a retrospective conversion
project, and performed original and complex copy cataloging of pamphlets,
maps, music and ephemera.
As the EPA Interlibrary Loan/Cataloging Librarian, she will oversee opera-tions
for interlibrary loan, document delivery and cataloging. In addition, she
will provide routine information services utilizing the EPA-wide information
network and offer training for library personnel and interns.
"We are delighted that Thea chose to come and work with us at the EPA-RTP
Library," said Tamika Barnes, EPA Library director. "Her background, cataloging
skills and enthusiasm to work with the interns will make us a stronger library."
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The first certificates in Clinical Information Science (CIS) have been
awarded by the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and
Library Science (SILS). The students who received the CIS certificates
are Emily Pfaff, Ashraf Farrag and Dr. Rich Medlin. In keeping
with CHIP’s mission to provide an information technology foundation
to professionals interested in designing and implementing systems to
improve health care and services, the CIS certificate program offers
training focused on clinical systems analysis, data management and
clinical decision-making.
CHIP’s CIS certificate program is open to graduate and professional
students and post-baccalaureate professionals. The first certificate
recipients reflect the diversity of background to which CHIP aspires.
Emily Pfaff, who currently works as a research assistant to Dr. Bob
Hamer in UNC’s Department of Psychology, is a Master’s in Information
Science candidate at SILS.
“My CIS certificate helped to start me on a great career path in
health informatics,” Pfaff said. “As one of the first graduates of the
program, I’m looking forward to seeing how the program continues
to evolve.”
Ashraf Farrag, a nearly 20-year veteran of the information technol-ogy
field, found the CIS program a useful way to combine professional
interests and research.
“Completing my certificate has allowed me to develop new col-leagues
both in the university and UNC Healthcare, said Farrag. It has
fostered working relationships helpful both for my future career in the
workforce and research projects for my future academic endeavors. As
for being one of first recipients, I hope that the work on clinical deci-sion
support I did for my research practicum – and am continuing to
work on post-certificate – will represent CHIP favorably, as well as set
a good example for future graduates as to what they can achieve upon
completing the program."
Rich Medlin, an Emergency Medicine physician who works in
UNC Hospital’s Emergency Department, has been a full-time physi-cian
since 1996.
“Hospital use of advanced information science techniques has
lagged behind the rest of the digital world,” Dr. Medlin said. “SILS
produces cutting edge research and functional systems that have the
potential to revolutionize the way that physicians evaluate and treat
patients. However, substantial barriers exist to their implementation,
particularly in the areas of security and privacy. The program at SILS,
which is funded by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health
Information Technology, aims to educate physicians about these
techniques. Forward thinkers like Javed Mostafa, Brad Hemminger,
Stephanie Haas and Gary Marchionini make the CHIP program at
SILS first rate.”
Dean Gary Marchionini presents the CIS certificate to Emily Pfaff. Dr.
Javed Mostafa, director of the program is on the right.
From left to right, Dean Gary Marchionini, Ashraf Farrag and Dr. Javed
Mostafa.
From left to right, Dean Gary Marchionini, Dr. Richard Medlin and Dr.
Javed Mostafa.
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Sensemaking in collaborative exploratory search, Johanna Shelby and
Robert Capra
Shaken and stirred: ASIS&T 2011 attendee reactions to “Shaking it up: Em-bracing
new methods for publishing, finding, discussing, and measuring
our research output,” Jason Priem (and others)
Beginning to track 1000 datasets from public repositories into the published
literature, Heather Piwowar (NESCent), Jonathan Carlson (UW-Madison), and
Todd Vision (UNC-CH)
Other
Student Design Competition, Stephanie Haas (organizer)
ASIS&T Doctoral Seminar on Research and Career Development, Barbara
Wildemuth (organizer)
Awards
During the conference, awards were presented to Dr. Gary Marchionini who
received the prestigious Award of Merit; graduate student Brooks ( Jon) Breece
who was presented with the Pratt-Severn Best Student Paper Award for his
master’s paper titled, “Local Government Use of Web GIS in North Carolina;”
and doctoral student Amber Cushing who was awarded the Thomson Reuters
Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship. Her primary area of interest is in
personal recordkeeping.
The student design competition was won by a team of students who worked
to address the “Filter Bubble” or the personalized customization of search
results. Members of the team included SILS doctoral student, Justin Brinegar.
Other members of the team included CAS student Elin Bammerlin of Illinois;
master’s student Melissa Hunt Glickman, San Jose State University; and Tanja
Mercun, doctoral student, University of Ljubjana, Sloven.
Not included in this impressive list are the many SILS alumni who were
also presenting posters, papers, workshops and more. Congratulations to all
who were accepted to present their research at ASIS&T.
NOTE: Attendees may view conference proceedings at: http://asist.org/
asist2011/
Honors and Awards
SILS had a shining representation at the annual meeting of the American Society
for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) that was held in New Orleans,
LA on October 9 - 11. From organizing post-conference seminars and workshops,
to participating on panels, making presentations, presenting posters and win-ning
awards, the School was well-represented by students and faculty. Following
are some of the activities in which our students and faculty were involved:
Post-Conference Seminars and Workshops
Collaborative Information Seeking: Bridging the Gap between Theory and
Practice, Rob Capra (co-organizer)
Where Your World Meets Mind: Information Use Across Domains (SIG USE),
Barbara Wildemuth (co-organizer)
Panels/Panelists
The Future of the Profession - Socio-Technical Viewpoint, Gary Marchionini
Shaking it up: Embracing new methods for publishing, finding, discussing
and measuring our research output, Jason Priem
Capturing the complexity of information interactions: Measurement and
evaluation issues, Barbara Wildemuth
Preparing for the academic job market: An interactive panel for doctoral
students, Laura Christopherson (co-organizer), Barbara Wildemuth, and others
Papers
Can u help me plz?? Cyberlanguage accommodation in virtual reference
conversations, Laura Christopherson
Is amount of effort a better predictor of search success than use of specific
search tactics? Earl Bailey and Diane Kelly
Local government use of Web GIS in North Carolina, Jon Breece (winner of
Pratt-Severn Best Student Paper Award)
Possession and self-extension in digital environments: Implications for
maintaining personal information, Amber Cushing (winner of the Thomson
Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship)
Posters
Effectiveness of real-time query expansion in a library catalog, Xi Niu and
Bradley Hemminger
Does domain knowledge influence search stopping behavior, Maureen
Dostert
Editorial control over linked data, Ryan Shaw (and Michael Buckland,
Berkeley)
Scrolling and pagination for within document searching: The impact of
screen size and interaction style, Laura Marcial and Bradley Hemminger
Self extension and the desire to preserve digital possessions, Amber Cushing
SILS Shines at ASIS&T Annual Meeting
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Honors and Awards
ASIS&T’s highest honor goes to Dean Marchionini
Dr. Gary Marchionini, dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor at
SILS, received the Award of Merit, the highest honor presented by the American
Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).
The award is “bestowed annually to an individual who has made a
noteworthy contribution to the field of information science, including the
expression of new ideas, the creation of new devices, the development of better
techniques and outstanding service to the profession of information science.”
“Dr. Marchionini is more than deserving of this award,” said Dr. Ben
Shneiderman, professor, Computer Science and founding director of the
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland. “He
has always thoughtfully provided intellectual leadership with broad theories
and followed through by implementing working systems that provided inspira-tion
for others. His work and his personal style are inspirational. He chooses
meaningful paths for groundbreaking research that has impact. He works very
hard, while engaging with people on a personal and human basis, a rare skill
among academic superstars.”
The award, which consists of an engraved Revere bowl and a certificate,
includes an inscription that reads:
“Dr. Gary Marchionini is an internationally renowned distinguished
professor who has contributed a lifetime of extraordinary accomplishments
to the field of information science. He excels in a number of research areas
including digital libraries; information seeking in electronic environments and
interactive information retrieval; human-computer interaction and design;
health information technologies; information policy; and, more recently, social
media such as YouTube. His contributions have resulted in further develop-ment
of thought, better techniques, and outstanding service to the field of
information science through sharing the results of his substantial research
throughout the world.
“Gary has published more than 200 articles, book chapters and technical
reports on these research topics as well as publishing results of his research
on the usability of personal health records, multimedia browsing strategies,
personal identity in cyberspace and other areas of research. Several of his
Paul Jones receives IBM Faculty Award
Paul Jones, director of ibiblio and clinical associate professor at SILS and
the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, has received a 2011 IBM
Faculty Award for $15,000.
The IBM Faculty Awards is a highly competitive international program that,
according to the program Web site, intends to “foster collaboration between
researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research,
development, and services organizations; and promote courseware and cur-riculum
innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that
are strategic to IBM.”
Jones received the award based on the quality of his program and the
importance of it to the information industry.
In order to receive the award, participants must be nominated by an IBM
employee, must be a full-time faculty member at an accredited university and
must demonstrate excellence in his or her field. The last UNC staff member
to receive the award before Jones was SILS Dean, Dr. Gary Marchionini, who
received the Faculty Award in 2006. This is the second year in a row that Jones
has received an IBM Faculty Award.
“I’m honored to receive this award and to see SILS and the University of
North Carolina receive support and recognition from the industry,” Jones said.
“Keeping a good relationship with IBM helps provide faculty members chances
to collaborate, gives graduate students opportunities for research and internships
and gives graduates from our programs job prospects.
“This money will help us set the future directions for ibiblio services and
to explore new partnerships.”
publications have been cited hundreds of times. He continuously shares the
results of his research at home and around the world, most recently as an
invited presenter of the prestigious Ranganathan Lectures in Bangalore, India
(three lectures). Earlier this year, Gary was appointed to serve on the President’s
Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Health Information
Technology (HIT) Report Workgroup.
“Through a combination of research, teaching, and service to the com-munity,
Gary has demonstrated his passion for improving the ways in which
people use computers to find and use the information they need. At every step,
he has demonstrated that he is an expert in this field of information science,
standing above others by envisioning a need, and then attacking problems with
fervor and an enthusiasm unlike most researchers. He focuses on the impact
of his work and reaches for the ultimate benefit to users of the projects and
products of his efforts, changing the world for the better.”
ASIS&T president, Linda C. Smith, presents the Award of Merit to Gary Marchionini at
the ASIS&T annual meeting in New Orleans, LA.
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Collection.” (with Katy J. Vance (MSLS ‘11). North Carolina School Library
Media Association Annual Conference. Winston-Salem, NC, October 7, 2011.
Christopher (Cal) Lee, assistant professor, attended the iPRES conference
in Singapore where he organized and ran a half-day workshop on Nov. 4 called
“Steps Toward International Alignment in Digital Preservation.” Participants
arrived from 14 different countries. http://ipres2011.sg/pages/workshops.
Richard Marciano, professor, has several new appointments including:
co-director of the Digital Innovation Laboratory at UNC at Chapel Hill; affili-ated
faculty in the UNC Department of American Studies; Data Sharing Facility
Director, Temporal Dynamics Learning Center at the University of California,
San Diego. Marciano is also program committee co-chair for the SAA 2011 75h
anniversary to be held in Chicago; and program committee member of JCDL
2011. Recent published worked include IEEE LDAV 2011: “A System for Scalable
Visualization of Geographic Archival Records,” Jeff Heard, Richard Marciano,
Oct. 2011. Archiving 2011: “Trusted Digital Repository Design: A Policy-Driven
Approach,” Chien-Yi Hou, Caryn Wojcik, Richard Marciano, May
18, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT. “Policy-driven Repositories” workshop, JCDL 2011,
Ottawa, Jun. 16-17, 2011, with Chien-Yi Hou. Marciano also presented, “DCAPE”
panel, “Census 1940” panel: NAGARA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Jul. 13-16,
2011; “Virtual Cities” panel, Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford, Jun. 19-23,
2011; and the TUCASI Board presentation for $2.7M TIP Project final report,
FTP, June 6, 2011
Helen Tibbo, alumni distinguished professor, attended the Museum Computer
Network Conference in Atlanta, GA, Nov. 18, 2011 and spoke on a panel entitled:
“Curating Data: The Next Frontier.” She was appointed chair of the Society of
American Archivists’ Task Force on Fundamental Change in the Publications
Program. This group is looking at reconceptualizing the SAA Archival Funda-mentals
Series II. The first meeting was Nov. 4-6, 2011 in Chicago, IL.
Tibbo attended the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum in Baltimore, MD,
Oct. 30 – Nov. 2, 2011 and presented on a panel entitled: “Digital Curation,
Data Management, Digital Preservation, Sustainability: Are We Clear Yet?” She
also attended the “Best Practices Exchange” in Lexington, KY, October 19-22
and presented on a panel focusing on the IMLS-funded ESOPI program with
the School of Government. ESOPI Fellow, Jon Brooks Breece, and ESOPI
partner, Kelly Eubank from the North Carolina State Archives and Jon’s site
supervisor, presented on the same panel. Tibbo presented on “Policies and
Standards Community of Practice.” DataNet Federation Kickoff Meeting. Chapel
Hill, NC, October 3, 2011. She served as a Charter Instructor for the Library of
Congress’s first Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Train the Trainer
workshop, Washington, DC, Sept. 20-23, 2011. On Aug. 27, 2011, she became
the immediate Past President of the Society of American Archivists. In addition,
Tibbo presented “On the Occasion of SAA’s Diamond Jubilee: A Profession Com-ing
of Age in the Digital Era” as her Presidential Address, Society of American
Archivists Conference, Chicago, IL, Aug. 26, 2011, and presented “Educating
the Curator: Digital Curation Education in the United States” at the ICE (In-ternational
Curation Educators) Forum 2011. London, June 29, 2011. She was
co-Instructor with Dr. Cal Lee for a day-long workshop, “An Introduction to
Digital Curation for Public Records Professionals,” at the National Association
Deborah Barreau, Francis Carroll McColl Term Professor, is the newest
membre of the editorial board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly
Communication, a new, digital journal.
Rob Capra, assistant professor, co-organized the 5th Workshop on Human-
Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR) held on the Google
main campus in Mountain View, CA, on Oct 20. The workshop was a success
with about 100 participants. He presented a paper on “Faceted Search on Mobile
Devices” at the workshop that received press coverage from the New York Times
reporter, Brad Stenger, who noted in his article titled, “2011 HCIR Workshop at
Google” that Capra’s description of his work was one of the favorites. “My favorite
presentations were by Rob Capra, a professor at the University of North Carolina
in Chapel Hill, who described his early work to put faceted search on smart-phone-
size screens, and by Michael Zarro, a Ph.D. student at Drexel University
in Philadelphia, who showed some very interesting results of a study looking at
how people move through searches for medical information.” See the HCIR Web
site: http://beta620.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/2011-hcir-workshop-at-google/.
Capra also co-organized a workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking at
ASIS&T (Oct 12), along with SILS alumnus Chirag Shah (Ph.D. ‘10). He
presented a poster at ASIS&T on “Sensemaking in Collaborative Exploratory
Search” on research conducted by SILS Masters’ students, Johanna Shelby.
Jane Greenberg, professor, attended the International Conference on Dublin
Core and Metadata Applications at the National Library of the Netherland, The
Hague in September. She participated in the Vocabulary Alignment workshop,
presented on the HIVE (Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering)
project; and co-led the DC-SAM (Science and Metadata) workshop. Green-bergattended
an invitational workshop, Biodiversity Information Serving Our
Nation (BISON), at the USGS in Washington DC this fall. November 30, Jane
presented at the Library of Congress in the Repositories in Science and Tech-nology:
Preserving Access to the Record of Science, a workshop co-sponsored
by CENDI and NFAIS and Hosted by FLICC. In October, Greenberg, Carolina
Keizer (MSLS ‘98), Wanda Gunther (MSLS ‘00) and Madeline Veitch,
SILS MLS student presented three RDA (Resource Description and Access) boot
camps to introduce SILS student to new cataloging rules. Jane, members of
the Metadata Research Center (MRC) sponsored a Metadata Marathon in early
December as part of the 5th year anniversary celebration of the center: ils.unc.
edu/mrc/metadata-marathon/. The event is part of the annual open metadata
class, and will bring together SILS students, metadata experts, area attendees
for a lively discussion on metadata research.
Sandra Hughes Hassell, professor, coordinator of the School Library Media
Program Editor of the Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults
presented, “Teaching Peach and Conflict through Multicultural Children’s
Literature” (with Shannon Harris). World View K-12 Global Education Sympo-sium,
Peace and Conflict Ten Years after 9/1. Chapel Hill, NC, October 19, 2011.
She also presented, “Getting Started with PLCs.” (with Debbie Dupree MSLS
‘97). Gaston County School Librarians Workshop. Gastonia, NC, October 14,
2011. “Professional Learning Communities and the School Librarian.” (with
Debbie Dupree). North Carolina School Library Media Association Annual
Conference. Winston-Salem, NC, October 7, 2011. “Developing a Global Library
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of Government Archives & Records Administrators (NAGARA) Conference, Nash-ville,
TN, July 16, 2011. She presented on the SILS Digital Curation Certificate in
a Digital Pedagogy Session at the Archival Educators Research Institute (AERI),
Boston, MA, July 11, 2011.
Tibbo conducted test audits of large digital repositories in the UK, the Nether-lands,
France and the US in June 2011. This was a test of the new ISO standard
16363, Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Repositories and the audit
procedures.
Zeynep Tufekci, associate professor, gave a talk titled “From Tehran to Tahrir:
Social Media and Dynamics of Collective Action under Authoritarian Regimes”
at Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard: http://cyber.law.harvard.
edu/events/luncheon/2011/09/tufekci. She also presented at Harvard Kennedy
School, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy: http://www.
hks.harvard.edu/presspol/news_events/archive/2011/tufekci_10-25-11.html
This fall she traveled to the 2rd Arab Bloggers Meeting in Tunisia: http://arablog-gers.
com/blog/2011/10/3rd-arab-bloggers-meeting-day-1/ -- media coverage
here: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/10/201110322155284271.
html or http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/outriders/2011/10/3rd_arabic_bloggers_
summit_201.shtml. Tufekci presented two papers at the American Sociological
Conference in August and a paper at the 2011 AUSACE conference in Beirut in
October: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&k
ey=0AkRlm628pZ6ddG9QbDdzbHNxajY4aktkMmp1UWNwNVE&single=true
&gid=3&range=A1%3AB250&output=html
In September, Tufekci gave a talk at the Ars Electronica conference in Linz,
Austria: www.aec.at/origin/en/2011/08/01/public-square-squared-how-social-fabric-
is-weaving-a-new-era/
Rebecca Vargha, SILS librarian and former president of the Special Libraries
Association, attended the 77th IFLA conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as the
American Library Association’s representative to the Standing Committee of the
Statistics and Evaluation Section. At the conclusion of the conference, she was
appointed as Convener for E-metrics SIG of this section and will be organizing
a program with the Serials and Continuing Resources Section on e-journals.
Vargha presented “Libros en Espaol Para Nios: Building A Children’s Latino
Book Collection,” at the North Carolina Library Association Conference in
Hickory on Friday, October 7. She also co-presented a poster with Angela
Bardeen (MSLS ‘06) and Chad Haefele (Davis Library) on assessing
science libraries and collections at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. She co-authored an article which was recently published in the September
2011 issue of Information Outlook on the same project.
Barbara Wildemuth, associate dean of Academic Affairs and professor,
presented with doctoral student, Kaitlin Costello, their poster, “Who should
have access to my personal health record? Patients’ perspectives” at the Workshop
on Interactive Systems in Healthcare, held in conjunction with the American
Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) meeting, Washington, DC, October 22,
2011. Wildemuth also presented with O’Brien, H., University of British Columbia;
Lopatovska, I., Pratt Institute; and Rieh, S.Y., University of Michigan (2011)
“Capturing the complexity of information interactions: Measurement and
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evaluation issues.” The panel presented at the annual meeting of the American
Society for Information Science, New Orleans, October 10, 2011.
Kam Woods, post doctoral, attended an event in York, United Kingdom, called
“Practical Tools for Digital Preservation: A Hackathon” where the participants
voted his product as the best solution of the event.
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in the instruction classroom at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador.
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Dr. Diane Kelly Edits “Interactive Information Seeking,
Behaviour, and Retrieval”
Faculty News
The latest addition to the SILS list of faculty
book publications is Interactive Information
Seeking, Behaviour, and Retrieval, co-edited
by Dr. Diane Kelly and Dr. Ian Ruthven
(University of Strathclyde, UK).
The book, a collection of 13 essays,
addresses recent advances in interactive
information retrieval. “Interactive Informa-tion
Retrieval (IIR),” says Dr. Kelly, “blends
research from information retrieval (IR),
information behavior and human computer
interaction (HCI) to form a unique research
specialty that is focused on enabling people to
explore, resolve and manage their information problems via interactions with
information systems. IIR research consists of studies of people’s information
search behaviors, their use of interfaces and search features, and their interac-tions
with systems. IIR research is also concerned with classification, indexing
and retrieval techniques that are tailored to individual users or groups of users.”
Contributors to the book are some of the leading authors and thinkers in the
areas of information-seeking, behaviour and retrieval. Coming from academia
and industry, they lay the intellectual foundations of the area and provide over
500 references to related work. The book aims to become an indispensable text
for LIS graduate students and for professionals who want to better appreciate
how information retrieval systems are designed, implemented and evaluated.
“This book synthesizes information seeking, information behavior, and
information retrieval in thirteen articles written by leading scholars,” says
Dr. Kalervo Jarvelin (University of Tampere, Finland), who contributed a
chapter to the book. “Each article discusses a topic, such as “Information
behavior and seeking,” “Interactive techniques,” or “Access models,” in an
informative but non-technical way, providing concise histories of the topics,
the state of the art, research problems and pointers to relevant literature. The
editors of Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour, and Retrieval have
really succeeded in putting together a book that is valuable for information
science/retrieval curricula and for researchers wishing to acquire a synthesis
of this growing research.”
Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour, and Retrieval is available
now from Facet Publishing.
Dean Marchionini to be featured on “North Ca