Fisher staff share some of their favourite items in the collections
While the Fisher Library is physically closed, our online resources remain open at all times
While the Fisher Library is physically closed, our online resources remain open at all times.
In order to support community efforts to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we will close for an indefinite period.
In order to support community efforts to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we will close for an indefinite period. Please watch our web site for when we will re-open
Lecture featuring Dr. Michael F. Suarez Director of Rare Book School and Professor of English, University of Virginia will be postponed until a later date.
Lecture featuring Dr. Michael F. Suarez Director of Rare Book School and Professor of English, University of Virginia will be postponed until a later date.
The Dec. 2020 issue of the Friends of Fisher newsletter is now freely available for download from the web site
The Dec. 2020 issue of the Friends of Fisher newsletter is now freely available for download from the web site.
The Fisher will be showcasing various materials to celebrate Black History Month
Please visit between 3 and 6 pm to view materials that celebrate February's Black History Month.
The Fisher is again offering cards featuring images from our collection. They can be purchased by visiting the reference desk.
The Fisher is again offering cards featuring images from our collection. They can be purchased by visiting the reference desk.
The Fisher will again be opening its doors to the public to view recently acquired material
The Fisher will again be opening its doors to the public to view recently acquired material. Please join us between noon and 5 pm.
A new album is now up on our Flickr site featuring samplings from our collection of Luggage Labels from the late 19th century to WWII.
The collection is a set of 3,550 beautifully drawn and painted labels by famous artists and printers that were collected over a 25-year period. The collection features famous cities, political parties and hotels.
These periodicals chronicle important social issues as they developed and inform today’s political climate. The Pedestal: A Woman’s Liberation Paper, for example, illuminates some critical days in the movement for equitable abortion access.
These periodicals chronicle important social issues as they developed and inform today’s political climate. The Pedestal: A Woman’s Liberation Paper, for example, illuminates some critical days in the movement for equitable abortion access.
It is joining the city's most diverse arts and culture district that features twenty-two organizations.
It is joining the city's most diverse arts and culture district that features twenty-two organizations.
A sampling of the Fisher's Italian decorated papers from the 17th to 20th century, many with decorated papers, is available on our Flickr site
A sampling of the Fisher's Italian pamphlets from the 17th to 20th century, many with decorated papers, is available on our Flickr site.
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
New manuscript at the Fisher by one of the first women in the West to earn a living by her pen
The latest issue of the Friends of Fisher newsletter features a special donors section, who write about their collecting. It is available for download.
The latest issue of the Friends of Fisher newsletter features a special donors section, who write about their collecting. It is available for download.
Book attributed to Henri Estienne, the great 16th century French Protestant printer on his (less-than complimentary) feelings about the dowager Queen of France.
We have new holiday card designs available for sale. Some older designs are also on sale.
Looking for a unique card to send out this holiday? We have two new designs available for sale. Please visit the Fisher to purchase.
Once again, the Fisher will be displaying some of our recent acquisitions to the public. The open runs from noon to 6 pm.
Want to see some of our latest acquisitions? Please visit us when we hold our semi-annual Open House between noon and 6 pm.
All of the audio from the recent Many McLuhans symposium can be accessed online
The complete audio from September's Many McLuhans Symposium honoring the UNESCO designation can be streamed from McLuhan Centre's web site.
We've added some new audio content: the last Friends of Fisher lecture is now online, and there's a self-guided audio tour of the current exhibition on monsters
We've added some new audio content: the last Friends of Fisher lecture is now online, and there's a self-guided audio tour of the current exhibition on monsters.
Co-curators Liz Ridolo and Irina Mihalache were interviewed by CBC Toronto's morning program on the Fisher's current exhibition, Mixed Messages. It is available online.
The audio of the segment featuring co-curators Liz Ridolo and Irina Mihalache is available online to stream.
The June 2018 issue of the Friends of the Fisher is available as a downloadable PDF. This issue focuses on recent purchases made by the library
New issue looks at recent purchases made by the library.
CBC Radio's Tapestry visited the Fisher Library
CBC Radio's Tapestry visited the Fisher Library
Among the newest acquisitions of Josef Čapek’s work are his book covers and illustrations to translated works by Gustave Flaubert, Tristan Corbière, , W.B. Yeats, H.G. Wells, Francis Jammes, Jean Vignaud, Rose Macaulay, Georges Duham
Experimental artist found his artistic voice above all in designing books
William Caxton's 1481 publication of Cicero has been added to the Fisher's holdings.
William Caxton's 1481 publication of Cicero has been added to the Fisher's holdings.
The Fisher is honoured by the Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab "American Book Prices Current" Exhibition Award in the Division Two Category
The Fisher is honoured by the Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab "American Book Prices Current" Exhibition Award in the Division Two Category.
Prof. Peter Blayney's Lecture on "How Many Printers Does It Take to Change a Liturgy?" can be viewed online or downloaded
Prof. Peter Blayney's Lecture on "How Many Printers Does It Take to Change a Liturgy?" can be viewed online or downloaded
Students share their personal experiences working with Canadian culinary materials and assisting with the various components of the exhibition process.
Students share their personal experiences working with Canadian culinary materials and assisting with the various components of the exhibition process.
The University of Toronto Libraries' Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and Information Technology Services (ITS) department are pleased to announce the re-launch of four digital collections!
Four digital collections have an all new look!
The exhibition features over 100 photos from the largest collection of Ginsberg photographic prints in the world.
The Marshall McLuhan collections held at the University of Toronto and Library and Archives Canada have been recognized as being of international significance
Marshall McLuhan collections at UofT and LAC recognized by UNESCO
Fascinating new web exhibition brings together graduate students and scholars to highlight 18th century holdings from the Fisher!
Fascinating new web exhibition brings together graduate students and scholars to highlight 18th century holdings from the Fisher!
View a collection of eight albumen prints of photographs from Marc Ferrez, the greatest photographer to emerge from Brazil in the late-nineteenth century
A set of 8 beautiful albumen prints can be viewed on our Flickr
Examining historic objects with a connection with migration, movement and travel
The newest issue of our newsletter the Halcyon is now available online
View snapshots from the last 150 years seen through UofT's archives and special collections on a new digital timeline
A group of Jackman Humanities Institute Scholars in Residence who are working with the Fisher's culinary collection had the opportunity to experience the Foodways Program at Fort York
The catalogue from the Fisher Library's recent exhibition "So Long Lives This: A Celebration of Shakespeare’s Life and Works 1616-2016.” has won an RBMS award for excellence
Fisher Library Shakespeare Catalogue wins prestigious Leab Award
We’ve added a new album to our Flickr page: a selection of woodcut illustrations featured on the covers of Brazilian “cordel” chapbooks – or, the tradition of popular pamphlet poetry
We’ve added a new album to our Flickr page: a selection of woodcut illustrations featured on the covers of Brazilian “cordel” chapbooks
Linda LeGeyt discusses Canadian Wildflowers ahead of her Katz Memorial Lecture "Where Art Meets Science: Traditions in Canadian Botanical Art."
The collection, dating from the 1830s to the 1920s, consists mostly of company billheads, but also contains letters, envelopes, memorandums, and receipts from various Canadian companies.
The collection, dating from the 1830s to the 1920s, consists mostly of company billheads, but also contains letters, envelopes, memorandums, and receipts from various Canadian companies.
The Fisher's interim department head PJ Carefoote spoke to CityTV about the library's building project.
Fisher Librarian PJ Carefoote was featured on CityTV News to discusss the library's building maintenance project. Please not the west stairs leading to the library are now closed.
The December 2016 issue of the Friends of the Fisher newsletter is now available, both in print and online.
Next June, the Fisher is launching its first seminar series workshop: a three-day workshop course on the history and identification of book illustration.
The Fisher is again selling greeting cards for the coming holiday season. They go fast, so come inside to purchase them. It's $15 for 10 cards.
We are renovating the Fisher Rare Book Library to improve the thermal performance of the exterior, which will prevent condensation inside the building.
This unpublished manuscript notebook contains first-hand accounts of stories from the battlefield collected from thirty soldiers recivers in a British Army hospital, by an American-Canadian nurse from August to October of 1915.
While the Fisher Library does not hold considerable collections from the Easter Rising, the Alfred De Lury Collection contains several unique items from and after the rising.
the Alfred De Lury Collection, that includes mostly literary and poetical material of writers from the Anglo-Irish renaissance, contains several unique items from and after the rising.
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, who fought with the British Army during the war.
A selection of of ex-libris plates is now freely available on the Fisher's Flickr site.
Library has recently catalogued 229 Mazarinades that date exclusively from 1649, from the period known as the Parliamentary Fronde
The Fronde was a series of civil wars that occurred in France between 1648 and 1653.
This month, we celebrate the golden anniversary of the University Archives
The video provides an introduction and overview of the exhibition featuring modern Czech book design.
We will again be open until 8 pm on Thursdays during the academic year.
The June 2015 issue of the Friends of the Fisher newsletter can be downloaded from our web site
This selection showcases the hundreds of different bookplates spread across our collections
These images were created on glass by Platt D. Babbitt between 1855 and 1860
Vesalius at 500 wins the ACRL/RBMS Katherine Keyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Exhibition Award for 2014
Patrons can now link directly to the online retrieval form straight from the record in the online catalogue
A Long Way from the Armstrong Beer Parlour, A Life in Rare Books has been released by Oak Knoll Books.
Bindings with beautiful designs and decorations blocked in gold and other colours speaks to the playful, popularized version of science encouraged in the Victorian Natural History movement.
Verdi's Requiem for Manzoni and the context of its composition tell us something about Italian history in the late 19th century.
Annotated version of this libretto, online on the Internet Archive, lifts the veil on its past.
The Fisher holds a copy of the libretto from the opera's opening night featuring the baritone Giorgio Ronconi.
The Fisher holds an extensive collection of Italian libretti printed before 1900, and the collection offers a singular insight into the origin and development of opera.
Marshall McLuhan's personal library is now available for public access
The correspondence is candid and offer a glimpse into Wolfe's personality and his legendary military career.
The Fisher is home to a unique 1555 copy of this landmark anatomy book - annoted by Vesalius himself.
Film is part of the extensive archival material related to the discovery of insulin held at the Fisher Library.
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