This month, Forbidden City: inside the court of China's Emperors, authors Barbara Ehrenreich, Karen Connelly and Lisa Moore, and the biggest show at TRL, the 2014 Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Click on each image to enlarge, or Download The May 2014 @ TRL as a pdf file. For a full list of library programs to […]
The four upper floors of the Toronto Reference Library are divided into subject areas. There's Arts on 5, Language & Literature on 4, Business, Science & Technology on 3. All pretty self-explanatory. But what's Humanities & Social Sciences on 2? Remember it this way. You know those topics you're supposed to avoid on first meetings […]
Meet rock legend Randy Bachman, drop in on Innovator in Residence Derek Quenneville, and learn to map a fictional world with Writer in Residence Marina Endicott. Click on each image to enlarge, or Download The April 2014 @ TRL as a pdf file. For a full list of library programs to browse or search, please […]
April 1, 2014 is the 15th anniversary of the proclamation of the Territory of Nunavut, which means “Our Land” in Inuktituk. It came into being after decades of hard political work, negotiation of Inuit land claims, plebiscites, and recommendations to form a government responsive to the Inuit majority in the eastern Arctic. The working languages […]
Update: The 2015 clearance book sale is held on August 20 – 22 at Toronto Reference Library. Friends of Toronto Public Library Clearance Book Sale All items are 10 to 50 cents Thursday, March 13, 10 AM-8 PM Friday, March 14, 9:30 AM-4:30 PM Saturday, March 15, 9 AM -4 PM […]
Come for the latest Digital Innovation Hub Open House, help keep yourself healthy with Reliable Health Information on the Internet, and start your own business with Be Your Own Boss. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The March 2014 @ TRL as a pdf file. For a full list of library programs to […]
How do you define Canadian? How do you define Black? Is definition the same as identity, and does identity shift over time and place? Is there any point in definitions? Maybe the key is exploration, and maybe that's what Black History month is really about. Position as desired:exploring African Canadian identity: photographs […]
Celebrate Black History Month with Lee Daniel's The Butler, hear about the theatrical life of David Mirvish, and see author Anna Quindlen. On February 8, a new gallery show on musical Toronto, "Coffee, Beer and Mosh Pits" opens in the TD Gallery. The brand new Digital Innovation Hub has an Open House on February 8th. […]
So what if there's an inch of ice outside? Some people take lemons and make lemonade. Canadians take ice and make ice skaters. Last week Ottawa hosted the Canadian National Figure Skating Championships (just recently renamed the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships). The first official Championship took place in 1914 at the Minto Skating Club […]
Lots of computer skills training this month, including Design for 3-D printing . On the arts side, see and hear choreographer Sergio Trujillo, composer Gustavo Santaolalla and librettist John Weidman on their new musical creation Arrabal. For readers, award winning satirist Gary Shteyngart, and for historians, partiers and beautiful people, the Black History Gala. Click […]