Last week the Government of Canada issued a new map of Canada, the latest in the Atlas of Canada Reference Map Series, and an update of the 2006 version. It’s available as both digital download and paper. While more and more maps are available online, and the mash-ups created from them become increasingly complex and […]
We get new books in at the Toronto Reference Library Browsery all the time. I don't have time to read them all (how I wish I did!) but I do like to dip into them whenever I can. Sometimes it's enough for me to glance through a few pages, or even just a few lines; […]
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 […]
The four upper floors of the Toronto Reference Library are divided into subject areas. There's Arts on 5, Language & Literature on 4, Business, Science & Technology on 3. All pretty self-explanatory. But what's Humanities & Social Sciences on 2? Remember it this way. You know those topics you're supposed to avoid on first meetings […]
Early nineteenth century adventures in the high Arctic in celebration of Valentine’s Day
And what's brought down . . . deposited books caught by a passing maelstrom The move to the electronic forms of publication, and sometimes to the exclusion of print versions, is something many of us have understood to be coming. In May of 2012, I reported in Government Publication to go paperless by 2014, that the […]
Please note that the Digital Design Studio is closed effective Friday, December 13, 2013. Please visit the Digital Design Studio blog for more details. This is a landmark day for the Literature Collection at the Toronto Reference Library. For the first time in years, it is finally in the "right" place. The Literature Collection is […]
From dresses with full skirts, puffed sleeves and tightly corseted bosom to the lean silhouette and high waist of the pre-war years, take a journey through time. In the Gallery on the 1st floor of the Toronto Reference Library, examine fashion plates depicting styles from a period of more than two decades between 1890 and […]
Sunday October 20, 2013 The Canzine: Festival of Zines and Underground Culture will be held on Sunday October 20 from 1-7pm at the 918 Bathurst Centre. Zines are self-made magazines or journals. According to Broken Pencil: The Magaine of Zine Culture and Independent Arts a zine is “an independently published, not-for-profit publication. Although it usually […]
The Toronto Reference Library’s Revitalization project achieved another milestone with the installation of the Global Connect Wall. Located on the ground floor in the Browsery, this digital information technology installation features 12 LCD screens that broadcast news and information from around the world. Each screen is connected to a half dome parabolic speaker that directs […]