Toronto Public Library ebook downloads surpassed 2 million checkouts this year, a testament to the popularity and growing demand for the format. Interest will grow even more over the holidays as people unwrap new tablets and ereaders and have a little more time to catch up on their reading. There's no better time to remind everyone that […]
Toronto Public Library has released its distinguished First & Best booklist, a selection of the year’s best Canadian book recommendations for children from birth to five years that help build early literacy skills. The list is carefully chosen by expert children's librarians from Toronto Public Library from dozens of submissions. Read more here.
In October, Toronto Public Library launched a campaign to raise awareness of the growing selection of current and popular digital content available, including ebooks, emagazines, video and music. Read more here.
Agincourt branch (155 Bonis Avenue) will be hosting the digital bookmobile on Wednesday September 24th from noon – 6 pm. Readers of all ages are invited to learn how to access ebooks from the library through interactive demonstrations. Read more here.
The eh List, Toronto Public Library’s acclaimed Canadian author series, returns in its fifth year with a lineup of award-winning Canadian novelists including Scotiabank Giller Prize winners Joseph Boyden and Linden MacIntyre; and Frances Itani, winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and a finalist for the Dublin IMPAC Award. Read more here.
The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Public Library’s signature event space for guests from the world of literature, the performing arts, politics and pop culture launched a spectacular fall season with a host of big names and big ideas including Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau, Canadian music legend Bruce Cockburn and author-activist […]
Toronto Public Library announces the programming line-up for its Keep Toronto Reading Festival, running April 1-30. This year’s city-wide celebration of reading spotlights the library’s One Book community read, The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. The themes of this bestselling novel – hope in adversity, human resilience and artistic expression in times of conflict – are […]
Toronto Public Library is pleased to work with StoryMobs to launch TD Summer Reading Club 2014 across Canada. StoryMobs, a literary phenomenon where great children’s books meet flash mobs, will run 13 story mobs of the same book, on June 28, in six provinces across the country; four of them at Toronto Public Library branches. Read […]
The IBBY Collection of Books for Young People with Disabilities at North York Central Library features more than 3,000 multilingual books in a variety of accessible formats, including sign language, Braille, Blissymbolics, Picture Communication Symbols, tactile and textile. The collection includes books for children and teens with developmental delays, language disabilities and reading difficulties, stories in traditional […]
Toronto Public Library is pleased to host Book Bash Canadian Children's Literature Festival as part of Keep Toronto Reading, the library’s month-long celebration of books. Book Bash returns to Northern District Branch on Saturday, April 26, 2014. Book Bash Canadian Children’s Literature Festival is a fun-filled, free children’s festival featuring an all-star cast of Canadian […]