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Fonds reflects Rachel Fry’s work in libraries and archives, personal records, and educational background. There are three series in the fonds are based on these three categories and functions. The fonds consists primarily of digital files in PDF, JPEG or .docx formats with some textual records. Work files include: correspondence; contracts; and other materials. Personal files include: correspondence; photographs; notebooks; and financial records. Educational background include: completed assignments; planning documents; lecture notes; and reading notes.

The fonds documents the personal, professional, artistic, and academic activities of Omar Al-Samadi from approximately age 12 to 38, covering the period from the late 1990s through to 2025. The records reflect a wide range of functions including creative production (primarily photography), cultural and event organizing, academic study and research, social justice engagements, professional development, and personal communication.

The fonds consists of 7 series:

2025-01-01: Correspondence – includes email communication organized into five-year chronological groupings (post-high school to present), handwritten letters from adolescence to early adulthood (ages 12–24), and greeting cards spanning from age 12 to 38.

2025-01-02: Personal documentation – contains administrative and professional records such as CVs, licences and certifications, and other official documents such as expired IDs, passports, and transcripts.

2025-01-03: Photography and creative projects – comprises analog and digital photography, select creative projects, and exhibition materials. Analog records include 35mm negatives, contact sheets, digitized scans, and selectively printed photographs.

2025-01-04: Event production and talent management – includes artist contracts, event planning documentation, promotional materials, and correspondence related to cultural organizing and music industry work.

2025-01-05: Academic work and research – documents undergraduate and graduate academic work, including essays, annotated readings, and research projects.

2025-01-06: Social justice and advocacy – includes records related to community engagement, activism, and advocacy work.

The internal arrangement of the fonds respects the original order of the donor, particularly in personal correspondence and digital photography. Intellectual arrangement was applied to group records by function and format across series and sub-series, particularly in cases where the creator’s working order was informal or evolving.

The fonds includes both analog and digital formats, with principal documentary forms including: email and handwritten correspondence, photographic negatives and prints, digital image files, event flyers, contracts, academic papers, protest materials, and administrative records.

Geographically, the fonds is centered on activities in Toronto, with international components relating to cultural engagement, travel, and correspondence.

This fonds comprises records created and collected by Madeleine Vien between 2020 and 2025, documenting her undergraduate and graduate studies, creative work, and community involvement. The materials reflect her academic work in Sexual Diversity Studies and Information Studies and include course assignments, research projects, and related documentation. The fonds also contains personal and artistic records such as poetry, journal entries, digital photographs, and multimedia projects that engage with themes of Métis identity, Two Spirit awareness, and self-reflection. In addition, it includes records of personal correspondence, such as emails and text messages exchanged with family, friends, and colleagues. Formats span textual records, born-digital documents, and audiovisual files, including audio and video recordings.

Contains several thousand photograph, document, and video files created during the period of 2010-2025.

Fonds consists of Kayla's student records documenting her life as a student at the iSchool, including 10GB (200 files) of Word documents (.doc) and 2GB (30 files) of digital photographs (.jpeg).

This fonds consists of the private records of Katherine Robertson, a student at the University of Toronto, dating back to around the beginning of her high school studies in 2011 up to 2025. The majority are documents related to school activities, starting with Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute, continuing through her HBA at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and leading into her graduate studies at the Faculty of Information. There is significant documentation related to the development of her paper “Myth and Conflict Under the Solomonic Dynasty” for publication, from its initial creation as a course paper, to her presentation at the annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, and the ongoing preparation of the paper and its accompanying volume with De Gruyter. Katherine’s correspondences are made up largely of emails regarding school activities, employment, and events of personal interest, with some physical mailed copies of admissions and tax documents. There are some employment and volunteer-related documents from her work with the Toronto District School Board and Entertainment Partners Canada Inc. The fonds also contains some of Katherine’s government documents, mainly financial records, as well as documents of her personal interests.
Materials in the fonds are both digital and physical, and include copies of assignments, research notes, annotated course readings and lecture materials, admissions and enrollment-related documents, event and extracurricular ephemera, manuscripts, publisher specifications, PDFs of emails, physical letters, CVs/resumes, work contracts, timesheets, T4s, personal notes, collected recipes, photographs taken by Katherine, and images saved for reference or inspiration. The fonds has been arranged into the following series:

1. School
2. Research and Publication
3. Work and Volunteering
4. Personal Interests
5. Government Documents
6. Correspondence

These personal records compose an open collection which consists primarily of the creative works of Kagan Pittman produced from 2019 to the present. The collected records reflect their hobbies including amateur nature photography, poetry, paintings and painted miniatures, pottery, and professional modeling work. The Photography series includes images produced using their mobile phone, between 2019 and the present and includes images in PNG format. The Poetry series is comprised of multimedia records including born digital documents of Microsoft Word Files and analogue paper documents produced across several devices and two personal journals produced between 2022 and the present. Painted works include two paintings on canvas and 60 painted miniatures of display value to the creator dated 2022 to present. Clay pottery pieces are included exemplifying further exploration in physical medium arts, however exact dates for their production are approximated. The final series includes edited photograph copies of Kagan's modeling, produced with Alkan Photography who holds the unedited originals that are not permitted for release as per their contract with Kagan Pittman (2025). Each of these art forms are considered as separate hobbies which Kagan explored in various times of their life and are actively contributing to given the open nature of the fonds, with additional entries anticipated in each. As such, the fonds and each series is organized according to chronological order of production when dates are available, and the order in which it was received by the creator regarding undated materials and physical items, including painted works and pottery, submitted with more broad likely dates of creation. Born digital documents are stored in hard drives while physical media are assigned to related boxes. All material is arranged chronologically when dating information is available and organized according to received order otherwise, for the purpose of preserving original order.

John Oliveira was born 1995 in Toronto. He graduated from Ryerson University in 2020 and worked for 4 years as a retail manager at Rexall pharmacies in both Ajax and Pickering. In 2024 he was accepted into the Ischool at the University of Toronto to an Information Science Degree in Archives and Record Management.

The fonds of John Oliveira document his personal and professional endeavors from the years 2018-2025. This fonds presents his work as a writer from notes all the way to the first printed draft of his novel Andreas' Children. It also documents his time at the University of Toronto spent earning his information science degree in archives and records management. Finally due to the amount of amateur recordings he has done, this fonds documents his hobby as an amateur guitarist and musician.

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This fonds consists of materials documenting Wong's life as a student in the School of Information and lifeguard in the swimming club. It includes his personal papers, correspondence with colleagues, and photographs.