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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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…
1-6 pm
Join us for an open house to celebrate National Indigenous Languages Day with a display of manuscripts, dictionaries, hymnals, periodicals, and primers in Indigenous…
12-4:45pm
Join us for a display of beautiful and rare Pesach (Passover) Haggadot, including Medieval manuscripts, early printed books, Kibbutz and
secular Haggadot, as well as…
secular Haggadot, as well as…
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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
- This exhibition, Flickering of the Flame: Print and the Reformation, explores the evolution of the Reformation and its propogation in text and the arts. The exhibition draws from the Thomas Fisher… More about this exhibition
- This exhibition, Struggle and Story: Canada in Print, explores the history of Canada through works in print. This exhibition draws from the holdings of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library as well as… More about this exhibition
- An online exhibition of highlights from the Fisher Library's history of science collections, mounted digitally for Science Literacy Week 2020.