There are over four million items in the Toronto Reference Library, and we can’t fit them all on the Open Shelf. Older, obscure and specialized materials are stored in the Stacks. You can see them–you just have to ask, via computer or staff, to have them brought out. It takes between 15 and 30 minutes. […]
This month, politics and beyond with Michael Ignatieff, the world above and beyond with Chris Hadfield, four days of Salon du Livre for francophones and francophiles, and web skills for all. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The December 2013 @ TRL as a pdf file. For a full list of library programs […]
How to talk about the JFK assassination, half a century later? The where I was story: For me?–Home sick from school, in a rocking chair in the living room, my farm family paren’ts and grandparen’ts inexplicably watching television in the middle of the afternoon. For more stories see November 22, 1963: ordinary and extraordinary people […]
Coming this month, authors Donna Tartt and Robert Rotenberg, photographer Freeman Patterson, former Prime Minister Joe Clark, Remembrance Day in the Beeton Auditorim and a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the day Kennedy was shot–November 22, 1963. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The November 2013 @ TRL as a pdf file. […]
Wonder what it means when you see this? The Toronto Reference Library owns more than 4.5 million items, and we don't have room for them all on the public Open Shelf. We store older, fragile and overflow materials behind the public walls in a storage area we call "Stacks". When you see on the […]
Come see and hear! Titanic: from myth to memorial, Dr. Shabir Ally, film français, Writer in residence Shawn Micallef and best selling author Sue Grafton, now up to W for Wasted. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The October 2013 @ TRL as a pdf file. For a full list of library programs […]
Does your school need new computer equipment? Does your youth camp need to build a dining hall? Does your church group want to help establish safe village wells in the third world? Does your arts organization need to create a kickass website? Does your community group want to start a sports program for local kids? […]
Friends of the Library Book Ends South Treasures Sale Thursday September 19 10 AM – 8 PM Friday September 20 9.30 AM – 5 PM Saturday September 21 9 AM – 4 PM Great deals on first editions, signed, rare, antiquarian and collectable books in many categories. Toronto Reference Library 789 […]
ROM Museum Highlights and Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World September 16th, 2013 at 2 PM Beeton auditorium of the Toronto Reference Library The presentation will focus on iconic objects from the Royal Ontario Museum's permanent collection and will provide an introduction to the ROM's current blockbuster exhibition of extraordinary objects from Mesopotamia. The presentors are members […]
Lots happening at the Toronto Reference Library this September: social networking, Writers Co-op, Mesapotamia, Roy McMurty, Mary Walsh and Ben Heppner! See you there! Click on each image to enlarge or Download The September 2013 @ TRL Calendar as a pdf file. For a full list of library programs to browse or search please check […]