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The University of Toronto Libraries system is the largest academic library in Canada and is ranked third among peer institutions in North America, behind only Harvard and Yale. [1] The system consists of 40 libraries located on University of Toronto's three university campuses: St. George (downtown Toronto), Mississauga and Scarborough. [2]
The Gerstein Science Information Centre is the University of Toronto's flagship library supporting the sciences and health sciences. The largest science and health science academic library in Canada, Gerstein has a collection of over 945,000 print volumes of journals and books, and also provides access to over 100,000 online journals and books. [1]
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and the University Archives didn't have a permanent home until 1973 when the Thomas Fisher Rare Book library was opened. The library is named in honour of Thomas Fisher (1792–1874), who immigrated from Yorkshire , settled along the Humber River in 1822, and became a successful merchant ...
The Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture [1] has responsibility for the administration of the Public Libraries Act. [2] The ministry's Culture Services Unit provides support for the public library system and the Ontario Library Service [ 3 ] deliver programs on behalf of the ministry.
Robarts Library may have served as a model for the secret library in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Eco spent much of the time writing the novel at the University of Toronto, and the stairwell of the secret library bears a particularly strong resemblance to that in Robarts Library. [5]
The Faculty of Information was founded as the University of Toronto Library School within the Ontario College of Education in 1928 and was housed at 315 Bloor Street. [2] In 1965, the school was designated as an independent unit within the university and became known as the School of Library Science and thus moved it quarters to 167 College Street and 256 McCaul Street. [3]
University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry: 1959 On Edward St. south of campus, near Dundas St. and University Ave. Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study [WR] Ontario Institute for Studies in Education: 1931 Located in The Annex north of campus. Formerly the Leighton Goldie McCarthy House. E.J. Pratt Library [LH] Victoria College 1961
Early in 2000, the Erindale College Library was renamed the University of Toronto Mississauga Library. In 2004, construction began on a new 110,000-square-foot (10,200 m 2 ), $34-million library building project—the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre (named after former City of Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion ).