While you may already use the main floor Broswery DVD collection at the Toronto Reference Library, did you know there is also a huge and wonderfully diverse collection on the 4th floor? It's strong in documentaries, Canadian content – including NFB, arts performances, history, biography, how to, cooking and gardening, travel, health and exercise. […]
The Friends of the Library – South Chapter are having a giant two day clearance sale at the Beeton Auditorium of the Toronto Reference Library that ends today at 4:00 pm. If you haven't already read it, then you may enjoy Joe Fiorito's interesting article on the sale and the Friends in the Toronto Star. Prices are very reasonable […]
We had an interesting question the other day on altars from a user who wanted to build a home altar. Several great books came from the stacks / storage but these two in particular seemed to show the depth and breadth of the collection. Home Altars of Mexico is a newer book published in 1997 […]
The other day I was reading Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada 1910 Vol 15. I feel deeply for poor Frederick Neal, the author of The Township of Sandwich Past and Present c. 1909, who is severely put in his place by the editors: Unfortunately Mr Neal's account of the Township of Sandwich is […]
No need to explain how important our eyes are. Just think … every morning the first thing we do after we wake up – we open our eyes, before resuming our daily routines. Just imagine for a moment how challenging it would be if we couldn't see or see well? With healthy eyes we not […]
Stella Adler on America's master playwrights, an extremely handsome and authoritative book on the great Stella Adler, recently arrived. It reminded me of my youth when everyone I knew or dated was a starving wannabee actor and their book collections always included works on Uta Hagen, Stanislavski system and Method Acting and sometimes, if they […]
Just wanted to share some numbers with you that surprised me: according to the Canadian Institute for Health and Information (CIHI), Canada spent more than 200 billion on health care in 2011 – an increase of 7 billion from 2010. And 44% of these were spent on seniors. And more … according to the 2011 […]
More and more people are conscious about their physical health than ever before. We are serious about what we eat. Just take a look at the flourishing health food stores in our neighbourhoods, organic food sections in grocery stores, the vegetarian options on restaurant menus. If these don't impress you enough, how about this – […]
How many months do we have in a year like May? The sun is up around 6am and not down until 8:30pm, birds are chirping even before sunrise, trees are covered by leaves and flowers. The temperature and humidity are just right, the wind is calm…it is a breeze. During this season, the first thing […]
Living in an information explosion age like today, our challenge is not having limited access to information, but "separating the wheat from the chaff". For example, googling "diabetes", yields up 333 millions hits (as of May 3rd, 2012). So which ones can you trust? If you are looking for a recipe for banana cake, it […]