This first workshop in a new digital media consortium was held for the "Designing Digital Media for the Internet of Things (DDiMIT)" on Friday, Nov. 20, called the Tweeting Infrastructure Making for the Basic Internet of Things (TIMBITs).

People need information, but many don’t know where or how to find it. Faculty of Information students and graduates are helping make a success out of a new initiative spearheaded by Knowledge Ontario (KO) to make services more accessible to the public and the student body in just minutes.

Faculty of Information Professor Emerita, Nancy Williamson, is being honoured in the latest edition of Cataloguing & Classification Quarterly: Volume 48 Issue 1. Known as a Festschrift, the book honors a respected person, usually an academic, and is presented during his or her lifetime.

Each year, the Faculty of Information Alumni Association (FIAA) offers up to ten MISt/MI students grants up to a maximum of $500 to attend conferences in North America. The Alumni Conference Grants are to be used to subsidize the cost of attending the conference. Launched in 2007, the grants allow MISt/MI students to:

• Present a paper or poster session, or
• Participate as a speaker or panellist

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us or sent sympathies for Dr. Cheryl Meszaros, at her Memorial Celebration held in her honour by the Faculty of Information on November 23, 2009.

Colleagues, staff, family, friends and students gathered to pay respect and celebrate the life and career of Dr. Meszaros, who tragically passed away this summer after a brief illness.

A Master of Information Studies (1997) graduate from the Faculty of Information, and one of our adjunct instructors, has landed the Chief Librarian position at the University of Toronto's Bora Laskin Law Library.

Half of the approximately 40 graduates of the iSchool participated in Convocation celebrations at Simcoe Hall on November 13, 2009.

"It was a beautiful fall day -- the perfect setting for a special ceremony like this one," said Dean Seamus Ross. "It was wonderful seeing all the smiling faces in the procession."

Congratulations to all graduates as they pursue the next phase of their career!

Team Chaos have struck again! We are delighted to announce the third Team Digital Preservation adventure, “Team Digital Preservation and the Deadly Cryptic Conundrum,” is now ready for viewing. But do not fear, Team Digital Preservation are on hand, in what could be their funniest adventure yet.

Jill Ruby, a 2007 graduate of the Faculty of Information, is in South Africa to participate in a year-long internship at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg.