The Faculty of Information was founded as the University of Toronto Library School within the Ontario College of Education in 1928 and was housed at 315 Bloor Street.

[3] The faculty has offered a variety of degrees since its inception, which reflect the changing requirements of entry into librarianship and more recently, into other information professions.

[5] The doctoral program was established in 1971, with Claire England holding the first Ph.D. in library science that was awarded in Canada in 1974.

[10] They are designed to allow students to focus on specialized subject interests and since they are a result of cooperation between different graduate units at the university, separate admission process is required of those who wish enter them.

[20] Semaphore Lab is a research cluster dedicated to inclusive design in the area of mobile and pervasive computing.

The lab offers workshops, idea jams and roundtable events aimed at supporting activity in exploration and development of internet enabled “things.” The lab use is not restricted to University of Toronto faculty and students, but open to other universities, and those in the public and private sectors.

[27][28] The Faculty of Information Quarterly (F/IQ), is a scholarly, peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal founded and operated entirely by students at the FI.

[29] The mission of F/IQ is to create an intellectual space for the information community to analyse and critically assess the divergent topics that comprise the field's study and practice, and to define and direct the iSchool movement through scholarly and professional communications as a means to fostering collective identity among students, faculty and practitioners of the field.

[30] Published four times a year, F/IQ includes original research, guest editorials, interviews with senior scholars and professionals in the field, and book reviews.

The iJournal is the University of Toronto (U of T) Faculty of Information's (iSchool) open access academic journal.

[32] Founded in 2016, it is written, edited, directed, designed and produced by (mostly graduate) students at the Faculty of Information.

The topics of the iJournal reflects the multiple disciplines that make up the information sciences taught at the Faculty.

[32] As of March 2022, the iJournal has published seventeen issues, including one special edition (summer 2017) and three (2016, 2018, 2019) iSchool Student Conference proceedings.

[33] It sponsors a number of events and programs, including Job Shadowing and publishes an online magazine, Informed, dedicated to news about the FI, faculty and alumni.