New at Fisher

In order to help curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Fisher Library will be closed for an indefinite period of time beginning Monday March 16. 

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As a result of the University of Toronto's recommendation to cancel or postpone all discretionary events, we regret to inform that this year's Katz Lecture featuring Dr.… Read full news article

In this latest issue of The Halcyon, the bi-annual Friends of Fisher newsletter, the focus is not just on the library's gift-in-kind donations - rather, it examines… Read full news article

To celebrate Black History Month in February, the Fisher will be holding an open house that will feature a number of materials from our collection. We will draw from the… Read full news article

Looking for that ideal holiday card to send out this year? We are again offering cards for sale this year, featuring images from our collections. There are five different… Read full news article

Are you curious about some of the Fisher's most recent acquisitions? Why not come to visit us on November 7 when we again host visitors for our biannual Open House. On… Read full news article

A new album is now up on the Fisher's Flickr page:… Read full news article

The Fisher Library is committed to preserving Canadian history up into the present day.

Periodicals throughout the twentieth century are a crucial medium for… Read full news article

The Fisher Library is proud to announce that it is joining the Bloor St. Culture Corridor, Toronto's most diverse arts… Read full news article

A new album is now up on our… Read full news article

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of a 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Christine de Pizan’s Livre de paix.

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Our donors have always played such an essential role here at the Fisher. Their passions for the book and for book collecting have enabled us to build one of the great… Read full news article

This new Fisher acquisition is a very rare copy of a book attributed to Henri Estienne (1528-1598), the great French Protestant printer who left his home in Paris to set… Read full news article

Looking for the ideal card to send out this holiday season? Why not purchase one of the Fisher's new holiday card designs, which are hot off the presses. There are two new… Read full news article

A book of sermons published in 1516 that contains a sermon listing seven reasons why werewolves might attack - and why they especially like to eat children. The latest… Read full news article

For those that missed the Many McLuhans Symposium held at the Fisher on September 21 - or for those that want to listen again to the entire proceedings -… Read full news article

We've added some new audio content over the last week.

If you missed the first Friends of Fisher lecture, the John Seltzer and Mark Seltzer Memorial Lecture,… Read full news article

Last week, Liz Ridolfo and Irina Mihalache, co-curators of the Fisher's current exhibition Mixed Messages: Making and Shaping Culinary Culture in Canada, were featured on… Read full news article

This past year, the Fisher was fortunate to add to its collections what is currently the oldest English-language printed book in Canada:… Read full news article

CBC Radio's Tapestry visited Interim Head of Rare Books and Special Collections Pearce Carefoote, who shared the stories attached to some of our oldest religious texts… Read full news article

By Ksenya Kiebuzinski

The Fisher Library has acquired a number of exceptional books designed and illustrated by the Czech artist and writer Josef Čapek (1887–1945… Read full news article

The Fisher is proud to announce one of its most important recent acquisitions:… Read full news article

The Fisher Library has again garnered a prestigious award for one of its exhibition catalogues.

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books… Read full news article

Dr. Peter Blayney, University of Toronto Department of English, Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, and authority on the early London Book Trade, delivered… Read full news article

A group of undergraduate and graduate Research Assistants and iSchool students have come together to create a for our current exhibition… Read full news article