Here's your chance to visit the new Marilyn and Charles Baillie Centre and find out all about Sherlock Holmes. Don't miss TCAF–the Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2015, plus David Suzuki giving the annual June Callwood lecture. And lots of job-hunting and computer training as usual. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The May […]
Join Ryan O'Connor this Tuesday, April 21st from 6:30-8:00 p.m. Toronto Reference Library, Beeton Auditorium for "The First Green Wave: Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario" Ryan will trace the rise of Toronto's environmental movement through the story of Pollution Probe, one of Canada's pioneering environmental activist […]
See Jane Urquart, Lori Lansens, Sara Gruen, and Guy Vanderhaeghe at the Appel Salon, bring your broken possession to the Repair Cafe and find free classes on the latest technologies. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The April 2015 @ TRL as a pdf file. For a full list of programs to browse […]
Get ready for the Stratford theatre season with a series of talks on upcoming productions. See and hear authors Kim Echlin, Erik Larson, Kazuo Ishiguro and Andrew Morton. Find out how to publish your own book with the library's Asquith Press at their information sessions. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The March […]
Read, share, discuss, and discover Toronto with the Toronto in Fiction Book Club. There is something about reading a book set in Toronto that always gives me a bit of a thrill. I suppose it's a thrill of recognition, to turn the page and stumble across a familiar Toronto landmark. Or maybe it's the thrill […]
Kick off the celebrations for Black History Month with the Black History Gala. On a less festive note, learn How to File a Tax Return, and How Off-shore Tax Havens Destroy Governments. Or come meet Norman Doidge on the brain, Albert Schultz on the theatre and Cecil Foster on his novel Independence. Click on each […]
Join us this month for two lunchtime musical interludes, with duos Kirk Elliott & October Browne, and Sara Churchill & Colin Savage. Plus, lots and lots of computer classes. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The December 2014 @ TRL as a pdf file. For a full list of programs to browse or […]
This month, two moving tributes to mark the centenary of the beginning of World War One. In the TD Gallery, running this month and into January, see Four Families, One War, an exhibit of artifacts tracing the experience of four Toronto families from 1914-1918. Also, each night at 8.30 and through the nights until November […]
Isfahan, Iran: dome of Lutfallah Mosque, c. 1610 Who has not heard of some of the great architectural monuments built in the Islamic world—the Alhambra, the Dome of the Rock, Shalimar Gardens, and the Taj Mahal? There are many more. What role did these masterpieces play in the life of the pre-modern Islamic world? As […]
Meet TPL's new Entrepreneur in Residence, Sunny Verma, founder and President of TutorBright. Then meet TPL's new Innovator in Residence, filmaker Sarah Goodman. Or maybe just be Game Curious. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The October 2014 @ TRL as a pdf file. For a full list of programs to browse or […]