Arts & Culture

Did you know the Toronto Reference Library has a vinyl record collection of around 15,000 titles that you can listen to at our vinyl listening stations in the Arts Department on the 5th floor? 

Now you can browse some of this collection at Discogs.com. Discogs, short for discographies, "is the worlds largest community-built database for music information. Imagine a site with discographies of all labels, all artists, all cross-referenced."

Just think of it as the Wikipedia of recorded music.

With this, customers can sort the collection by artist, date, label and view the full album artwork for each vinyl record listed.

Customers can also find detailed information on each recording and musical artist they are interested in discovering. Much of this information you will not find on our online catalog so Discogs makes the vinyl collection much more discoverable and fun!

The vinyl collection at Toronto Reference Library consists primarily of jazz and classical music, but there are also very unique gems covering many musical genres. 

We will continue to add titles to the Discogs collection, so check back often and enjoy the browsing!