University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science
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| Established | 1931 |
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| Dean | Gary Marchionini |
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Academic staff
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50 |
| Students | 400 |
| Location | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Campus | University town |
| Website | sils.unc.edu |
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Coordinates: 35°54′41.71″N 79°2′52.21″W / 35.9115861°N 79.0478361°W
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS), is a school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offering a bachelor's degree in information science, master's degrees in library science and information science, and a doctoral degree in information and library science as well as an undergraduate minor, graduate certificate programs, and a post-masters certificate. The school was founded by Louis Round Wilson and opened in the fall of 1931. Currently, the U.S. News & World Report ranks the School of Information and Library Science second among information and library science programs nationwide. Both professional degree programs in library science and information science are accredited by the American Library Association (ALA). The MSLS has maintained its ALA accreditation since 1934, and the MSIS program has maintained it since its inception in 2000. There were 32 full-time teaching faculty members and about 45 adjunct and visiting faculty members at SILS in 2014.
In addition to serving as the main campus library, Wilson Library was the official home of SILS until 1970, when it was relocated to Manning Hall. They would soon rename that very same library as Wilson Library, after Louis Round Wilson. Previously, Manning Hall used to be the home of the University's Law School. It was Louis Round Wilson that initiated the creation of SILS in order to "offer opportunity through sending out trained librarians for the South to tap the vast reservoir of human knowledge." A grant of $100,00 was offered to the school to enable them for three years and make permanent its conditional accreditation from the American Library Association. Ten years later, the ALA would later grant another $100,000 to the school. The first classes in the school officially began on September 17, 1931. In 1988, the school would officially change its name to School of Information and Library Science (being previously known as the School of Library Science).
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