The Fisher Library will be closed to the public from August 21 to September 5
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
The Fisher will be closed for two weeks to perform some important "clean up"
The Fisher will be closed for two weeks to allow staff to work on important internal projects.
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.
We've launched our newly redesigned web site to begin 2017. Please let us know what you think!
We're beginning the new year with a new look to our web site. It also has improved functionality. Please provide feedback.
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.
Film is part of the extensive archival material related to the discovery of insulin held at the Fisher Library.
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