On July 12, as part of the annual conference of the American Library Association, the I School hosted a reception in Chicago, Illinois, for alumni and friends of the school to reconnect with each other and with the school.
The reception welcomed alumni from the school's past forty years (from the class of 1967 to the class of 2007), with degrees from the School of Librarianship (up to 1976), the School of Library and Information Studies (1976–1994), the School of Information Management and Systems (1994–2006), and the School of Information (2006–present).