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The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is an academic library consortium of Ontario's 21 university libraries located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Formed in 1967, OCUL member institutions work together to maximize the expertise and resources of their institutions through shared services and projects. [ 3 ]
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is a library in the University of Toronto, constituting the largest repository of publicly accessible rare books and manuscripts in Canada. The library is also home to the university archives which, in addition to institutional records, also contains the papers of many important Canadian literary figures ...
Served as the first home of the Toronto Public Library, and as the main branch until 1909, but was closed in 1927 Urban Affairs Downtown Toronto: 1911 2011 1992 346,650: Previously located at Metro Hall, the branch was closed September 14, 2011, and the collection moved to the Toronto Reference Library. [5]
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 Best Gift: a Record of the Carnegie Libraries in Ontario. Toronto: Dundurn Press Ltd. ISBN 0-919670-82-2. Yvan Lamonde; Patricia Lockhart Fleming; Fiona A. Black, eds. (2005). "The Evolution of Public Libraries". History of the Book in Canada: 1840-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 254– 260. ISBN 0-8020-8012-X
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]
North York Central Library is a Toronto Public Library branch located in North York City Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the two libraries in the Toronto public library system considered to be "Research and Reference Libraries", the other being the Toronto Reference Library in the city's downtown core . [ 1 ]
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]