CARTOGRAPHY 17 Tkaronto: "A New Perspective on Map-Making" Art Starts Map of Toronto on Display from February 1 – March 5, 2018 At the Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street – 2nd Floor_________________________________________________________ Cartography 17 envisions a collaborative, arts-based representation of Toronto’s geography as it existed over 150 years ago and as it exists […]
The Opening Ceremonies on November 2, 1977 While recently digging through an old archive of library reports, I discovered an incisive quotation that describes what the Toronto Reference Library is all about. In responding to a survey question in 1996, "Have we made a difference?" John Robert Colombo wrote: Nowhere in Metropolitan Toronto will one […]
UPDATE: With the recent passing of renowned Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama on September 1, 2023, we’re highlighting this blog post from our archives, which explores his unique vision for the Toronto Reference Library. *** Thousands were in attendance when the Metropolitan Toronto Library Board officially opened its new library at 8 pm on Wednesday November 2, […]
The Pew Research Internet Project includes the kind of information that we like to cite in library reports and documents, notwithstanding its focus on the United States. According to the website, "The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through surveys […]
And what's brought down . . . deposited books caught by a passing maelstrom The move to the electronic forms of publication, and sometimes to the exclusion of print versions, is something many of us have understood to be coming. In May of 2012, I reported in Government Publication to go paperless by 2014, that the […]
WorldCat has much to offer, including an experimental venture called WorldCat Identities Network: http://experimental.worldcat.org/IDNetwork/ The basic idea is to show the publication relationships between authors and their work. Let's say we are conducting research on communication theory in Canada and our key starting point is Harold Adams Innis. By conducting a search for Harold Innis, […]
Have a look . . . Cartier; Champlain; Franklin; Sir MacDonald; Secord; Shadd; and Trudeau. There are a further 8,431 portraits in the Online edition of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, or DCB as it is commonly known: concise and well written, these pieces are exceptionally well researched, and exactly cited – making them a […]
Almost all international stories nowadays seem to involve the United Nations at one level or another. Yet the United Nations website includes such a vast amount of information that trying to get a sense of its size, contents, and activities, is like trying to sip water from an open fire hydrant. A sampling of a […]
The announcement this week that the 2010 print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica would be its last caused a flurry of media interest. Most commentators expressed regret, but weren’t surprised by the decision. The publishers of Britannica, as well as those of many other encyclopedias and reference guides, have been moving to digital versions for […]
The decisions of judges pertaining to particular matters brought before the courts create legal precedents and contribute to defining common law. Such legal precedents appear in case law and are published in law reports. LawSource, by Westlaw Canada, is an excellent source of Canadian case law and legal precedent . . . and LawSource offers […]