Whether it’s in Cantonese — Kung Hei Fat Choy! — or Mandarin — Gong Xi Fa Cai! –- it means “Wishing you prosperity!” and is the popular lunar new year greeting for people of Chinese descent around the world. Source: Toronto Star Archive, 1993 Source: Toronto Star Archive 1971 During the lunar New Year, […]
Check out this great post from guest blogger Dara Renton who originally posted this on TPL's Digital Library Services blog: Last week you may have heard that you live in the most well-read city in the world according to our ebook lending service. In 2016, Torontonians downloaded over 3 million ebooks and eaudiobooks from OverDrive. […]
Source: Toronto Public Library Annual Report 1903, pages 3-4. On January 27 and beyond, take a moment to reach back into time to January 27, 1903 when Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie made an offer to donate $350,000 to Toronto Public Library for the construction of a new central library and three branch libraries. […]
Good books are good books whether they are written for adults or not. These are some of the young adult and children's books that library staff members enjoyed in 2016. Cameron: Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige• eBook Diana: My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalastier• eBook The protagonist, a 17 year old boy, is struggling to keep […]
I've always been a collector. When I was a little kid, I had a collection of bottle caps that my dad helped me press onto a cork board. Later I went through phases with stickers (all the rage in grade five), stamps and hockey cards. In my middle age, it's records. But it wasn't until […]
Lynda.com is now LinkedIn Learning! LinkedIn Learning will have similar courses to those mentioned below. Lynda.com makes available a great variety of technology and business-related online courses, free with your library card. About 20-30 new courses are added each week. Here is just a sample of some new online courses recently added. Find and […]
Then there are the staff members who can't narrow it down to just or two titles and send an entire list! Welcome to the Kelli and Jane recommendations, Part 5 in the series of staff-recommended best books of 2016. Kelli: Fiction: Homegoing by Yaa Gaasi• Audiobook• eAudiobook• eBook• Large Print• Talking Book (restricted to Print […]
Bell Let's Talk day is their annual initiative to promote awareness and action on mental health. On January 25, Bell will donate 5¢ towards mental health initiatives in Canada for every text, call, tweet, Instagram post, Facebook video view and Snapchat geofilter using #BellLetsTalk. One of Bell's goals is to support research to discover and better understand treatments […]
Alternative history is a genre where the author speculates about how the course of history would have changed if there had been a different outcome to a historical event. These books have been winners or nominees of The Sidewise Award for Alternative History. The Cassandra Project by Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick• eBookLots of conspiracies […]
Last week you may have heard that you live in the most well-read city in the world according to our ebook lending service. In 2016, Torontonians downloaded over 3 million ebooks and eaudiobooks from OverDrive. If you like data and want to be transfixed by the Toronto reading zeitgeist, we have something special for you. […]