new graduates at the iSchool convocation ceremony

Alumni

As an iSchool graduate, you have reason to celebrate. Not only are you prepared for an exciting and fulfilling future, you have lifelong connections to a dynamic community. Through these connections, you'll have opportunities to maintain relationships with faculty and classmates, broaden your professional network, mentor current students, and remain engaged with the iSchool long after graduation day.

Keep in touch

We are interested in learning about how you have used your degree. Please take the time to share your latest news, both professional and personal.

Stay connected!

The iSchool offers many ways to stay connected with former classmates as well as to keep up with School news and trends in the field, including:

iSchool Alumni Association

All alumni of the iSchool are also members of the ISAA. The ISAA recognizes alumni and student achievement through annual awards. 

Catch up with your classmates

  • Popovitch, Catheryne (Class of 2011) 5 days 17 hours ago

    Catheryne Popovitch (MSLIS '11) has been appointed director of the Illinois State Archives.

  • Austin, Jeanie (Class of 2017) 9 days 17 hours ago

    Jeanie Austin (PhD '17) is co-principal investigator on a $2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will ensure continued support for the Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People initiative at the San Francisco (CA) Public Library.

  • Howard, Paul Wilson (Class of 2004) 11 days 17 hours ago

    As a solo librarian at his city’s community hospital, Salem Health, Paul Wilson Howard (MSLIS '04) has been part of a research project investigating a clinical staff resilience intervention. Project results have been published in the Journal of Nursing Administration.

  • Gabb, Henry (Class of 2019) 17 days 17 hours ago

    Henry Gabb (PhD '19) was appointed chair of the Board of Directors for the Linked Data Benchmark Council, a nonprofit organization that defines standard graph benchmarks and graph processing technologies.

  • Smith, Lindy (Class of 2009) 17 days 17 hours ago

    Lindy Smith (MSLIS '09) has started a new job as assistant director of the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Libraries.

  • Woolsey, George M. (Class of 1982) 17 days 17 hours ago

    George M. Woolsey (MSLIS '82) passed away in October 2024.