Have you been wondering what is happening at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library?
We are renovating to improve the thermal performance of the exterior, which… Read full news article
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The latest issue of The Halcyon, the newsletter of the Friends of Fisher Library, is now available in both print and online versions. The December issue looks back on the… Read full news article
The Fisher Library is excited to announce a new educational initiative beginning next June: a summer seminar series. Directed at information professionals, scholars, and… Read full news article
Struggling to find the perfect greeting card to send out this holiday season? The Fisher is again offering holiday cards for sale. We have some new images from our… Read full news article
Beginning Wednesday November 16, there are going to some changes to the Fisher's entrance over the next few months as we begin an important renovation project.
Since 1918, the First World War has proven to be a rich ground of inspiration for poets and novelists, visual artists and musicians. The poignant stories of the men and… Read full news article
This week, from April 24-29, is the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. The Easter Rising was launched by Irish Republican forces to end British Rule… Read full news article
The Fisher Library has acquired a remarkable collection of letters written during World War I by three brothers from Ingersoll, Ontario. Ted, Reg, and Harry Richardson… Read full news article
The Fisher Library possesses an extensive bookplate collection dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, referencing prominent figures and institutions in… Read full news article
The Fronde, so-named after the French word for the slings that Parisian crowds used to smash the windows of the residences of Cardinal Mazarin and his supporters, was a… Read full news article
The history of the University of Toronto Archives has not been written, but there is a great deal to write about. In lieu of this and to celebrate the past half-century,… Read full news article
The Fisher's latest exhibition is now open. Maximum Imaginativeness: Modern Czech Book Design (1900-1950) features books and journals published in Czech from the turn of… Read full news article
Beginning September 17 and running through the academic year until the end of April, the Fisher Library will again be offering extended hours on Thursday evenings. The… Read full news article
Curious to know about some of our recent acquistions, such as the sumptous Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896) from William… Read full news article
Provenance, or the history of a book's previous ownership, is a priority of any rare book library. Provenance evidence can be documented through various forms of ownership… Read full news article
The Fisher has added another set of photos to its Flickr page: a set of stereo views of Niagara Falls and… Read full news article
Vesalius at 500, the catalogue that accompanied last year's popular exhibition that marked the five-… Read full news article
A new book of essays from the Fisher's long-time former Director, Richard Landon, has been released by Oak Knoll Books.… Read full news article
The Fisher Library's Victorian Natural History Collection brings together over a thousand books dedicated to the study of natural history in 19th century Great Britain.… Read full news article
Alessandro Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi represents a watershed moment in the making of modern Italy. Held up as the one of the foundational texts of modern Italian, I… Read full news article
"The pleasure of archive work includes experiences that, we are warned, may enchant us..." - Maggie B. Gale and Anne Featherstone
The archive, as both place and… Read full news article
Opera is the product of many different influences. The earliest operas are classified as opera seria, a form of opera which often centred upon heroic or mythical figures.… Read full news article
If you've ever been to the opera, you might be familiar with supertitles (introduced by the Canadian Opera Company in its 1983 production of Elektra), which project a… Read full news article
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is proud to announce the acquisition of the working library of Marshall McLuhan… Read full news article
The University of Toronto Libraries system has acquired an archive of national importance to Canada’s heritage with the acquisition of General James Wolfe’s (1727-1759)… Read full news article