Please join us for a special Saturday afternoon opening at the Fisher Library!
On display will be The Elements (Knowledge of Life), a unique 144-page artist’s book… Read full news article
New at Fisher
A custom "tattoo" box that brings together two separate manuscripts centred around the 1836-37 Arctic expedition of the H.M.S. Terror. New additions to the Middle Eastern… Read full news article
Did you know the Fisher Library has participated in Doors Open Toronto since the very beginning?
An important annual outreach event, Doors Open allows us to show… Read full news article
Former Department Head and Medieval Manuscripts and Early Books Librarian Pearce Carefoote recently participated in the Kessler Conversations lecture… Read full news article
After a two-year hiatus, the Fisher has holiday cards for sale.
There are eight different designs, including new illustrations on offer. Four are images from an of… Read full news article
Beginning the week of September 12, the Fisher Library will be resuming its pre-COVID hours. We will be open to both researchers and the general public Monday to Friday… Read full news article
It's back!
After a three-year absence, the Fisher's Small and Fine Press Fair, normally a biennial event, is on for 2022. The fair will be held on its traditional… Read full news article
A late medieval manuscript of the first work of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, known as Maimonides, who is widely considered the most influential Jewish thinker. A rare first… Read full news article
The Fisher is honouring Pride Month with a special Pride Open House.
The open house will celebrate stories of resistance and activism told in a selection of books… Read full news article
The Wolfe Lecture on the Holocaust, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, is now available via the… Read full news article
Beginning the week of September 12, 2022, the Fisher Library will be resuming its pre-COVID hours. We will be open to both researchers and the general public Monday to… Read full news article
We're back!
The Fisher Library's Between the Pillars video podcast series returns October 15 for another season. Every second week we'll feature a new guest,… Read full news article
The Fisher kicks off its Friends of Fisher Library lecture series this month with the John Seltzer and Mark Seltzer Memorial Lecture. It will be delivered on Thursday… Read full news article
In 2018, the Fisher Library announced that it had acquired William Caxton's Cicero, printed in 1481. It… Read full news article
The Fisher's Robert S. Kenny Collection is an invaluable resource for researchers studying the history of 20th century… Read full news article
The 27th annual George Kiddell Memorial Lecture will be delivered on Thursday April 22 by one of the world's foremost scholars of medieval manuscripts, Michelle Brown. Her… Read full news article
This year's Johanna and Leon Katz Memorial Lecture features Philadelphia based pop-up book artist and photographer Colette Fu, who will speak on "We Are Tiger Dragon… Read full news article
To celebrate the centennial anniversary of the discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto, we are happy to announce a new … Read full news article
The Fisher is pleased to announce a new online exhibition lauching this week.
To celebrate Black History Month in February, the Fisher Library will present a special episode of Between the Pillars, on Thursday, February 11 at 6 pm:
Writers… Read full news article
The DeLury Collection of Irish Literature. John Graves Simcoe’s library. The Alberti Collection of ear, nose and throat materials. Editions of… Read full news article
On December 14th, at 1:00 PM, the Fisher Library’s Judaica librarian, Nadav Sharon, and librarians from the Jewish Public Library in Montreal will be jointly holding a… Read full news article
This year's John Seltzer and Mark Seltzer Memorial Lecture, delivered by Margaret E. Schotte's via Zoom on Thursday November 5, is now available… Read full news article
Have you always wanted to know more about the Fisher Library’s vast and diverse holdings? Or maybe you’re curious about our staff?
The Fisher has launched… Read full news article
The first Friends of Fisher lecture was broadcast on Thursday September 24. Owing to the library's continued closure due to Covid-19, the lecture was broadcast… Read full news article