There are still spaces available for the Microsoft Word 2007 computer class beginning tomorrow night (Wednesday, April 11th) at York Woods. The class will run from 6 – 7:30pm in our Learning Centre and continue on April 18th and 25th. Come to learn how to open Word, create a file and save your document. This […]
The Toronto Public Library website allows you to search for books, CDs, DVDs, programs, blog posts and more, all through one handy search box. Below is a video tutorial that will help you search for library materials on the Toronto Public Library website. For more information, see the Help with Searching page on our website. […]
The start of baseball season is great for many reasons. Not only does it mean that the Toronto Blue Jays are back, but that the winter has officially ended and the game will soon be played at ballparks across the city. The snap of the ball hitting a leather glove or the crack off a […]
Are you a Food Network junkie? Do you dream about the dishes you would create on Iron Chef or Chopped? Is it your dream to battle it out on Dinner Party Wars? For serious chefs to the dinner party host, look no further than our amazing collections of cookbooks, including those from your favourite celebrity […]
It's late at night (or perhaps early in the morning). That ten-page assignment is due at 9am. The library is closed, leaving you without a librarian to help figure out that pesky online database. What can you do? If you're using a Gale database (such as Canada in Context, Opposing Viewpoints or the Gale Virtual […]
Food and literature have long been combined, well before the Internet made every diner a possible critic. From Chaucer to James Joyce, the description of meals has entered written works, showing how people have dined (and what they have dined on) in the past. As time has gone on, and the foodie culture expanded, there […]
In 2010 the York Woods branch took on a massive undertaking to create the Black Creek Living History website, which chronicles the changes that have taken place in the Black Creek neighbourhood throughout the past sixty years. The project included a bus tour, speaker series and the recording of interviews with Black Creek residents. The […]
There is a chance that you might find yourself unwrapping an eReader in a week and a half. It will be new, shiny and may have lots of buttons (or very few). You will hopefully remember your manners and thank the person who gave you this gift. Then you might ask, "Now what?" The library […]
At the library I work at we often get people coming in to find the latest technology books. These could be about web design, mobile apps, , project management, new software – an endless line of queries, most that I have not heard about. Luckily the library has a great electronic resource to help with […]
If you're like most people interested in eReaders, the amount of options in the market today can be a headache. New ereaders come out every couple of months, crowding the vast selection that already exists. Which is right for you? And which devices can be used to read library books? On Wednesday, October 30th the […]