University of Toronto Faculty of Information

The University of Toronto Faculty of Information is the information school (iSchool) at the University of Toronto, based on its St. George campus in downtown Toronto. As an iSchool, the Faculty primarily undertakes research and teaching within the interdisciplinary field of information studies. Established in 1928 as a library school to train professionals in library and information science, research and teaching expanded over the decades to encompass various adjacent technical and non-technical fields. To acknowledge this broader shift in academic inquiry from solely libraries, the faculty became a tier one member of the iSchool Association in 2005, and added the iSchool designation to its name in 2006, becoming the first information school in Canada to do so. It has since become a hub at the university for interdisciplinary inquiry and teaching in human-computer interaction, data science, knowledge management, information systems, information policy, museum studies, culture and technology, digital humanities and information science.

The Faculty offers degrees related to information studies: a second-entry undergraduate Bachelor of Information, a Master of Information (organised into 8 concentrations), a Master of Museum Studies, and a PhD in Information, along with combined degree programs awarded in collaboration with other academic divisions at the university, on both the St. George and Mississauga campuses.

The iSchool is housed at the Claude Bissell building, which is attached to the John P. Robarts Research Library and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The building houses classrooms, administration, faculty offices, as well as faculty research labs.