Why every scientist needs a librarian
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#WhyEveryScientistNeedsALibrarian #ResearchSupport #EvidenceBased #SystematicReview #InformationScience #AcademicLibraries #OpenAccess #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceSupport
🎉 Celebrating SILS faculty excellence! From award-winning research and major grants to global keynotes and community-engaged scholarship, our faculty made a powerful impact in 2025. 🩵
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#UNCSILS #InformationScience #LibraryScience
This study analyzed existing definitions of misinformation and proposed two dimensions to integrate these definitions, ultimately constructing a theoretical model of misinformation development.
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Job Alert
Head of the Scientific Library Lib4RI (m/f/d) 80 – 100%
Deadline: 2026-03-31
Location: Switzerland - Dübendorf
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A printout of my family tree, my iPad with a word doc open, and a keyboard
There's nothing quite like a deadline for getting me to actually make a mass of data into something more readable...
Aka somehow I need to make the family tree info easier to convey to the rest of the family... Activate the library degree!!
#Geneology #FamilyTree #InformationScience
Great to start the year off with a new publication with @lisagiven.bsky.social & Heidi Julien looking at the library & information science community of practice associated with the conference-Conceptions of Library and Information Science lnkd.in/gG2Kic4n #colis #lis #informationscience #libraries
SILS students explore careers at Cisco!
During a fall career trek, students visited Cisco in RTP to tour labs, connect with SILS alumni, and explore how information science skills translate into tech careers.
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#SILSCareerTrek #SILS #InformationScience
Explanation of Hume's Law: You can't derive an ought from an is because is derives from ought, ie our ontologies derive from our teleologies (purposes).
Just ask any information science ontologist.
#Philosophy
#Ontology
#InformationScience
#LibraryScience
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Project Senior Researcher, Project Researcher, Project Researcher (II), or Postdoctoral Researcher (KGM25-004) -Yokohama, Japan - www.earthworks-jobs.com/jobpost/jams... - #jobs #research #postdoc #AtmosphericScience #OceanScience #EnvironmentalScience #InformationScience #modelling #geoscience
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How do I explain what I do? This paper discusses how library & #informationscience doctoral #students often struggle to explain their work & the data-information-knowledge relationship.
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#InformationMatters
JOB: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society at the School of Information Sciences.
The call is for scholars at the intersection of information, culture, politics, and knowledge practices — including history, art history, history of science/technology […]
UNC SILS faculty, students & alumni are sharing their research at ASIS&T 2025 (Nov 14–18, Washington, D.C. + virtual Dec 11–12)! 📖🗣️💡
From panels & workshops to posters, our community is shaping the future of #InformationScience.
🔗 Full list of presentations: buff.ly/6Xb1h5g
#UNCSILS
Flyer text reads Sustaining Bridges: Indigenous Graduates Weaving Knowledge A National Native American Heritage Month Symposium. November 12, 2025 2:00pm Pacific Time. Join us for this discussion featuring Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian alumni from the Bridging Knowledge Project. Learn about their current work, post-graduation experiences, reflections on the MLiS iSchool Program, and challenges facing Indigenous librarians today. Followed by this text are headshots of the 8 panelists, their names, and communities.
Zoom in and listen to some cool Indigenous peeps talk about #Indigenous #librarianship and the field of #InformationScience. Here's the registration link: bit.ly/47KZ7Dt
Even before the introduction of ChatGPT, big tech developed a technology to automatically transcribe speech, detect characters in photos, and detect copyrighted music. Now with generative AI, real-time censorship is possible on a grand scale […]
Kate Zwaard, CNI Director, will open the CNI meeting, followed by an overview of #AI and #ML in the #libraries and #InformationScience context from Ben Lee, founder of the Lab for Computing #CulturalHeritage. The list of preliminary project briefings is also now live. More to come! @bcgl.bsky.social
A flyer for those curious about careers in digital curation or archives and records management. The graphic reads, “Join us for an info session about the Master of Professional Science (MPS) in Digital Curation and Management (DCM) and the Archives and Records Management (ARM) track of the M.S. in Library Science” on Tuesday, November 4th from 2 – 3:00 P.M. ET on Zoom. You can register for the info session using the link below. There is a picture of a two SILS students in the lobby of Manning Hall.
🎓 Don’t miss out on your chance to take the next steps toward your graduate studies in digital curation or archives!
⏰ 1 week away – join our virtual info session
📅 November 4 | 2–3 p.m. ET
🔗 Register here: go.unc.edu/DCMARM
#LibraryScience #InformationScience #UNCSILS #UNC
A flyer for those curious about careers in digital curation or archives and records management. The graphic reads, “Join us for an info session about the Master of Professional Science (MPS) in Digital Curation and Management (DCM) and the Archives and Records Management (ARM) track of the M.S. in Library Science” on Tuesday, November 4th from 2 – 3:00 P.M. ET on Zoom. You can register for the info session using the link below. There is a picture of a man with glasses looking at something alongside a person who is working.
💻🗂️ Preserve the past, curate your future, and make it your career! Interested in digital curation or archives and records management? Join us November 4, 2–3 p.m. ET for a virtual info session about two SILS graduate programs.
Register here ➡️ go.unc.edu/DCMARM
#LibraryScience #InformationScience
New Journal Article (abstract only): A Study of Editorial Boards Composition: A Review of Q1 Journals in the Field of Library and Information Science (via Scientometrics) link.springer.com/article/10.1... #libraries #informationscience
Das neue Programm für das #BBK im Wintersemester 2025/26 steht! 🙌 Bis auf die Podiumsdiskussion am letzten Termin finden alle Vorträge online via Zoom statt. Alle Infos zu den Terminen sind wie immer hier zu finden:
hu.berlin/bbk
#LIS #Kolloquium #Vortrag #InformationScience #HU
What is the future of library and information science in Aust & NZ? Hear about new research at the ASIS&T Oceania Research Spotlight Seminar, 12 noon AEDT Wed 8/10. Register lnkd.in/g4butKxB #librarians #lis #informationscience
Strong knowledge management starts with structure. Custom taxonomies turn information overload into clarity, powering smarter search, faster decisions, and real innovation. #KnowledgeManagement #Taxonomy #InformationScience #DigitalTransformation #DataStrategy
Trends show that an over dependence of technology leads to deskilling in a ton of areas, so while people who constantly rely on smart technology might be at a technological advantage, their cognitive abilities will be underutilized compared to their peers. #informationscience
“We’re working to evaluate and enhance how interdisciplinary knowledge around pandemics is produced and integrated within COMPASS and across science.”
#COMPASSCenter #ScienceOfScience #KnowledgeIntegration #PandemicResearch #Cornell #InterdisciplinaryScience #InformationScience
We’re delighted to announce our collaboration with Tsinghua Science and Technology! 🎉 This journal has chosen #SciOpen as its publishing partner, and Volume 31, Issue 1 is now live 🌐
#SciOpen #TUP #InformationScience #openaccess #publishingplatform #publishers #AcademicPublishing
Job Alert
Professorin/Professor (w/m/d) – W2-Professur für Schaltungstechnik
Deadline: 2025-10-02
Location: Germany, Schweinfurt
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This other Buckland quotes a lady information scientist, Madame Documentation, Suzanne Briet, "("Cantilope cataloguee est un document initial et les autres documents sont seconds ou derives." (Briet, 1951, p. 8)."
#TheCatalogedAntelope #LIS #InformationScience #MeaningMaking #Information
Special #Libraries Association (#SLA) and the Association for Information (#ASIS&T) Science and Technology Members Vote in Favor of Merger […]
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Special #Libraries Association (#SLA) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (#ASIS&T) Members Vote in Favor of Merger www.infodocket.com/2025/08/21/s... #informationscience
