Alumni

Our Alumni Community

The Faculty of Information will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2028. Over the years, the Faculty and its predecessors have graduated more than 10,000 students in both emerging and established information fields. Our alumni community is thriving and evolving.

We welcome our alumni back to the Faculty of Information whether they want to volunteer, mentor, attend an event, or take advantage of the many benefits the University of Toronto offers to alumni. All our graduates automatically become members of the Faculty of Information Alumni Association.

We want to engage with our alumni

At the Faculty of Information, we invite our alumni to contribute their time, talent and treasure to the university in whatever way works best for them. Attend an event, take advantage of one of our professional development opportunities, or become active in the Faculty of Information Alumni Association.

Alumni engaged with the Faculty of Information become part of and contribute to the most ambitious campaign in Canadian history. For the first time ever and as part of the Defy Gravity campaign, the University of Toronto has set a goal for alumni engagement. We are looking to inspire 2,500 members of our alumni community to get involved as volunteers, mentors, donors, participants and leaders.

The Faculty of Information is part of the University of Toronto’s Defy Gravity campaign, the most ambitious campaign in Canadian history.

Our goal is to raise $10 million and inspire 2,500 members of our alumni community to get involved.

How to get involved

Alumni News

Panelists, including Twyla Gibson and Seamus Ross, at the 2016 ALISE Conference

In Memoriam: Professor Twyla Gibson (1954 – 2024) 

Friends and Colleagues remember Twyla Gibson as an interdisciplinary scholar whose information interests ranged from Plato to Marshall McLuhan  While she came to academia later in life than usual, Twyla Gibson, left a big imprint, including at the Faculty of Information, where she held an assistant professor appointment from 2007 to 2011.   Gibson was […]

Arbor Award recipients (left to right) Jennifer Boucher, Chris Ferguson and Alexia Loumankis at the January awards presentation ceremony.

Congratulations to our Arbor Award winners

The Arbor Awards are the University of Toronto’s highest honour in recognition of exceptional and longstanding volunteer service. Recipients are essential to advancing U of T as one of the world’s great institutions of higher learning and advanced research. They provide volunteer supports that span everything from governance and academic programming to experiential learning and […]

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Zooming in with alumni: Manda Vrkljan

Manda Vrkljan graduated from the Faculty of Information in 2019 with concentrations in Library and Information Science and Knowledge Management and Information Management. She is a seasoned librarian and the current President of the Faculty of Information Alumni Association (FIAA). She zoomed in with alumni officer, Regan Tigno.  What originally inspired you to pursue your […]

Informed magazine 2025 Cover

Hot off the presses: Informed magazine, 2025 edition

The Faculty of Information’s alumni magazine, Informed, has just been published. Read tales of student success and ingenuity, get an overview of Faculty of Information research, find out more about generous alumni gifts, and much more. It’s all in the 2025 edition of Informed.

Zooming in with alumni

Every month we do a Zoom call with one of our many thousands of alumni all around the world. Among other things, we ask them to tell us what they’ve been up to career-wise, the most important lessons they learned at the Faculty of Information, and their favourite University of Toronto memories.

In this month’s first ever Zooming In, we talk with MandaVrkljan (Class of 2019).

Stay in touch

If you have questions or would like further assistance, please contact Regan Tigno at regan.tigno@utoronto.ca

Informed Newsletter (monthly)

Keep up with what’s happening at the Faculty of Information by subscribing to the alumni edition of the Informed newsletter.

Informed Magazine (annual)

You can also sign up to receive Informed, the information experts’ alumni magazine, which is published annually. [form]

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