For library customers and staff alike, it’s no secret that Toronto Public Library is a place that provides limitless opportunities for finding information. Usually, the search is active and deliberate, but once in an amazing while, one can happen upon a treasure by serendipity. Such was the case when I “discovered” the Mosser brothers. While […]
One must-see item in TD Gallery’s new exhibit, Alice Opens the Door, depicts 40 scenes from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. This amazing poster came to the Toronto Public Library’s conservation lab brittle, torn and in pieces. Learn about the intensive conservation treatment that strengthened the poster and reunited its pieces.
Stan Lee December, 2016, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Stanley Martin Lieber, a.k.a. Stan Lee (December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018), superhero comic book icon, is sadly no longer with us. Like many of you, I have enjoyed Marvel movies and television series for as long as I can remember. I have loved the X-Men and Guardians […]
Free movies, free programs, free classes. All at the Toronto Reference Library. Click on each image to enlarge or Download the November 2018 @ TRL as a pdf. For a full listing to browse or search, visit our Programs, Classes and Exhibits page.
When artists donate work to the Toronto Public Library they fill out a form called a Deed of Gift. In the case of Toronto Public Library’s most recent donation, the artist Sam Ash added a note that said, display this “in a public library space where it can be viewed by the public for free.” […]
Come to a Literary Treasures presentation on Friday October 26 at 7 PM at the Toronto Reference Library in the Discussion Room (on the 3rd Floor) by Steven B. Shubert, The Monster Awakes: The Mummy in 19th century Fiction It was two hundred years ago that Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Shelley) published her masterpiece of […]
Steel engraving (993 × 78 mm), for the frontispiece of the 1831 revised edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, published by Colburn and Bentley, London. We invite you to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: 200 Years of Mad Science, a new exhibit at the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the […]
Halloween’s the time for Ghosts’, creepy stories and spooky tales and the library is no exception! The shelves are filled with stories and the staff have a tale (or many) of secrets from within our library walls. I have a tale that includes an old mine, a treasure and maybe some pirates … A few months ago, I […]
Free movies, free programs, free classes. All at the Toronto Reference Library. Click on each image to enlarge or Download the October 2018 @ TRL as pdf. For a full listing to browse or search, visit our Programs, Classes and Exhibits page.
Aaniin My Indigenous learning journey was recently accelerated when I stepped into the role of the TD Gallery Curator just before the installation of the current Indigenous-themed exhibit Pathways: Following traces of Indigenous routes across Ontario. As someone with an interest in history, and as a Canadian, I am ashamed to say that I knew […]