New at Fisher

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

Earlier this year, the Fisher was honoured to receive, on a deposit, a copy of the 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius’s De humani… Read full news article