This week has been Freedom to Read Week, an annual event that is embraced by libraries and librarians across the country. There is no better environment than a library to celebrate the freedom to… Read the full post
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April 21 - Early Telegraphic Materials with Canadiana Librarian Grant Hurley
Join us occasional Fridays at 12:30 pm, when the Fisher's video podcast series Between the Pillars streams via the library’s YouTube Channel.
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This workshop will examine the history of artists' books by looking at both contemporary and historical examples, along with exploring book structures that will test one…
6pm
In this lecture, Surekha Davies shows how print and manuscript miscellanies and geographical works produced in Europe by geographers, naturalists, and collectors like Sir…
This 3-day seminar trains participants in low-barrier, non-invasive scientific imaging and analytic techniques appropriate for the study of manuscripts and printed books from…
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- One of our favourite weekends of the year is coming up on Friday: the Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair. It’s an opportunity for us to reconnect with the various book sellers – local, national and… Read the full post
- Among the more impressive and unusual items in the Fisher Library’s Tennyson collection are several very large editions of Idylls of the King illustrated by Gustave Doré (1882-1883) for the… Read the full post
- “This book is the first one ever written about tennis.” My ears perked up when a Fisher colleague said that sentence one morning last week in the workroom. I’m a fan of many things, but my love of… Read the full post
Online Exhibitions
- An exploration of how CanLit and Canadian publishing have been shaped by a diverse community of writers, publishers and editors.
- An online exhibition of highlights from the Fisher Library's history of science collections, mounted digitally for Science Literacy Week 2020.
- Drawing on the rich printed and manuscript resources of the Fisher Library, this exhibition approaches horticultural history from the particular viewpoint of how people learn to cultivate plants –… More about this exhibition