Photo credit: Jonathan Bloom Ayelet Tsabari's debut story collection "The Best Place on Earth" won’the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her memoir in essays, The Art of Leaving, is due to be published in 2019 with HarperCollins […]
This post was revised February 3, 2018 Free programs, free movies, free classes. All at the Toronto Reference Library Click on each image to enlarge or Download The February 2018 @ TRL as a pdf. For a full list of programs to browse or search, visit out Programs, Classes and Exhibits page.
This world of wildest dreams we devotees call fantasy will never be the same. News of the passing of Ursula K. Le Guin on Monday evening has deeply touched the community of science fiction and fantasy fans, and countless others who have been inspired by her writings. Le Guin was a multi-award-winning author, having won several Locus, Hugo and […]
What is it that comes to your mind when someone mentions tabletop role-playing games (RPGs)? Most people probably think of Dungeons & Dragons (D & D). There are several references to D & D in recent popular culture, including the campaigns played by the gang of friends from television's popular "The Big Bang Theory", and the Netflix series […]
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 […]
January is the 200th anniversary of "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley. Celebrate this special birthday by checking out our collection. Illustration from the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, by Theodore von Holst. Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley spent the summer of 1816 with the poet Lord Byron. They […]
Photo by Jonathan Bloom Are you an aspiring writer? Join Ayelet Tsabari, award-winning author of The Best Place on Earth, as she leads workshops, gives presentations and an interview, hosts panel discussions, and provides one-on-one appointments as Toronto Public Library's Spring 2018 Writer in Residence. The Best Place on Earth was not only her debut story […]
Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver. Permission from IBBY Canada. To celebrate the completion of conservation work on Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver's invaluable illustrations, this post gives a brief overview of Cleaver and how Toronto Public Library has preserved her art. Who is Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver? Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver (1939-1985) is one of Canada’s most renowned children’s illustrators and is one of the […]
Join author Tom Slee, on Tuesday, January 16, 2018, 7:00 – 8:30 pm at Toronto Reference Library, Beeton Hall, as he explores the personal and societal consequences of the so-called sharing economy. Drawing on his original empirical research, in his book, Slee shows that the friendly language of sharing, trust and community often masks a […]
With the shelves of every branch stocked with books to fuel a desire for learning and self-improvement, the library is your go-to location for New Year's resolutions. In addition to the things you can check out at a branch or online, you can find inspiration for the new year in the rare and vintage materials […]