Have you had a chance to visit our free photo exhibit, The Changing Face of Toronto? The exhibit, which runs until July 23, is on display in the Toronto Reference Library's TD Gallery. The Changing Face of Toronto features portraits of the people who lived and worked in Toronto throughout the 20th century. Curated from the library's Canadian Documentary […]
John Nagle with nine of his ten children. Photo: W.H. James/Toronto Star, August 29, 1936. Toronto Star Photograph Archive Our new photography exhibit, The Changing Face of Toronto, opens this Saturday, May 14 in the Toronto Reference Library's TD Gallery. It runs until July 23. As always, admission is free and the gallery is open to […]
Left to right: Vickery Bowles, City Librarian, His Excellency David Johnston, Her Excellency Sharon Johnston, Mary Rae Shantz, Manager of Special Collections. The Library was pleased to host a very distinguished guest on April 20th. His Excellency David Johnston, the Governor General of Canada visited the Library launch of his new book The Idea of […]
Cinderella is, without a doubt, one of the best known fairy tales and the version by Charles Perrault, first published in 1697, in Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé is the most popular. From Walt Disney’s animated film version of Cinderella (1950) to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Broadway musical of Cinderella (1957) to last […]
May marks the 20th anniversary of Toronto’s Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, the largest festival of its kind in the world. This year the month-long, city-wide festival brings together over 200 exhibitions featuring the work of more than 1,500 artists and photographers. Photography is a uniquely powerful artistic medium. It can stop time and challenge us to see the world through someone else’s […]
When is a children’s book not a children’s book? When it was written for adults, but “adopted” over time as a children’s classic. One famous example of an adult work “adopted” by children is Gulliver’s Travels, the subject of a recent Curator’s Choice program at the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books. Gulliver’s Travels was […]
You have just one week left to visit our free exhibit Special Collections: A to Z on display in the TD Gallery at the Toronto Reference Library. If you've ever been interested in learning more about the fascinating (and sometimes weird) items that Toronto Public Library has amassed since 1884, this show is a great introduction. From an illustrated map of […]
Welcome to Curator’s Choice! This Toronto Public Library initiative gives Special Collections and the people who love them a chance to shine every Saturday morning. This week Elizabeth Derbecker was the curator, the location was the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books, located at the Lillian H. Smith branch, and the subject of choice was […]
Welcome to Curator’s Choice! This Toronto Public Library initiative gives Special Collections and the people who love them a chance to shine every Saturday morning. This past Saturday, Elizabeth Derbecker was the curator, the location was the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books, located at the Lillian H. Smith branch, and the subject of choice was Australian […]
James Leck, comedic Young Adult (YA) author of The Adventures of Jack Lime, delivers a suspenseful read in After Dark. Used to the mischievous freedom of his days at Choke Academy, Charlie Harker is less than thrilled at the prospect of spending the summer renovating an old inn with his mother, twin sister, Lilith, […]