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HIC talk on Darfur March 1

A graduate of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communications department and former member of the ibiblio team, Mark McCarthy, will be on campus Tuesday, March 1, to discuss his role as the data coordinator in the Humanitarian Information Center (HIC) for Darfur. Via email, Mark describes the organization’s role “…as part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…[which] fill the information gaps that are present at the early stages of a humanitarian crisis.”

What: Inside Darfur and the Humanitarian Information Center
When: Tuesday, March 1, at 4 p.m.
Where: Freedom Forum Conference Center, 3rd floor Carroll Hall, UNC
Who: UNC grad and ibiblio alum Mark McCarthy
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Triangle Blogger Conference summary

More than 150 bloggers and blog users gathered on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus Feb. 12 for the 2005 Triangle Bloggers Conference. The large attendance of this event is an indication of the growing popularity and impact of Weblogs.
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ConsiderIT presentation March 18

“ConsiderIT with Colleagues — Teaching with Technology at UNC-Chapel Hill” is a series sponsored by the Center for Instructional Technology. Faculty, TAs, and staff are invited to share and discuss selected teaching and learning issues related to technology.

“Capturing, Transferring, and Evaluating Student Voice: The PALs Project”
Who: Jamie Bishop, OASIS
When: Friday, March 18, 12:00 noon - 1:00pm
Where: 404 Hanes Hall
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Black History Month celebration

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed…. [O]ut of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race.”–Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, 1901

iBiblio, “the public’s library and digital archive,” invites you to celebrate February as Black History Month. iBiblio’s annual commemoration of this event features several online collections that celebrate great African-American and African artists, institutions, and projects, with new material added this year.
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Triangle Bloggers Conference Feb. 12

Organized by ibiblio, a part of ITS, the 2005 Triangle Bloggers Conference will be held Feb. 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Murphey Hall 116 and is open to all faculty, staff and students at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Triangle Bloggers Conference
Saturday, Feb. 12
9 a.m. - 12:30 (and beyond)
Murphey Hall 116
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