INFO Alumni Updates & Opportunities

Stay connected, support students, enjoy events, network, and engage in lifelong learning! Joining the UMD Alumni Association, serving on an INFO Alumni Network committee or board, volunteering to help at a college event, making a donation to support a college program or student scholarship fund, or providing career advice to current students as a guest speaker—these are all great ways to stay connected to the UMD INFO College. Alumni also have the opportunity to enjoy free and discounted UMD events and INFO events for lifelong learning, networking, or just for fun! Alumni who join the UMD Alumni Association automatically become members of the INFO Alumni Network (also known as the iSchool Alumni Network), which focuses on supporting new generations of INFO students through scholarships, mentorship, internships, and industry connections. Network members also enjoy regularly scheduled INFO-specific alumni networking and social events.

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The world of information has never been more valuable. From ensuring that all are able to access information and technology, to digital literacy, to developing new solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges. Through the Forward campaign, we ask you to join INFO in shaping this future together by investing in information science student scholarships and opportunities, resources to attract top faculty and cutting-edge research.
Holly McIntyre, MLIS Alumna 2010

Holly McIntyre, MLIS Alumna 2010

Meet Holly McIntyre, Alumna & Archivist for NASA Goddard

“The MLIS program taught me archival theory, which is huge – it keeps me on my path,” says Holly McIntyre, MLIS Alumna and Archivist for NASA Goddard. In 2015, Holly became the first-ever archivist for NASA Goddard. She took 60 years of history and materials and created today’s Goddard Archives.

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MLIS Alum Uses Knowledge and Passion to Improve Information Access for Future Queer and Trans People

During their tenure, Hagelin managed the LGBT Equity Library and worked on digital collections and digital collection, which sparked th …

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Kevin Beverly, MLS, Class of 1981

iSchool Alumnus Kevin Beverly works to help disadvantaged children realize their potential through community outreach, mentoring, and s …

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Wendy Simmons, PhD, Class of 1990

Wendy Simmons is a retired Foreign Service Officer. She was also an adjunct lecturer for the College of Information Studies from 2015 t …

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Alice Crites, MLS

Alice Crites, Washington Post researcher, has been a part of a half-dozen Pulitzer teams.

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Tracy Jeffcott, MLS, Class of 2012

Tracy Jeffcott is the recipient of the 2017-18 Maryland School Librarian of the Year award, which honors a school librarian for exempla …

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Dr. Diane Ledbetter Barlow, MLS, Class of 1975

Dr. Diane L. Barlow, who passed February 6, 2018, was a monumental figure in the history of the University of Maryland College of Infor …

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Jamuna Sundararajan, MIM, Class of 2005

Jamuna is currently the President and CEO of Cyberbahn Federal Solutions LLC. Cyberbahn Federal Solutions LLC was Jamuna’s dream since …

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Melissa Wertheimer, MLIS, Class of 2017

Meet Melissa Wertheimer, Archivist of the Music Library Association and Music Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress.