University of Toronto Libraries at 125

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University of Toronto Libraries at 125

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University College, before and after the fire of February 1890

Front view of the University Library on King’s College Circle, circa 1900

Circular - dated 12 March 1890 - sent to England, France, and Germany, soliciting donations of books and funds to rebuild the library following the fire.

Quote from the Report of the Spinks Commission to Study the Development of Graduate Programmes in Ontario Universities, 1966

Hugh Hornby Langton (1862-1953)

Hugh Hornby Langton sitting at his desk circa 1910.
Library circulation desk looking east with reading room door at left, 1910

University of Toronto at Scarborough / Scarborough College Library

Librarian John Ball and staff at the circulation desk of the new V. W. Bladen Library during the library’s official opening on 15 March 1982.
Alice Moulton (1911–2012)

Alice Moulton with her maternal grandparents at her graduation from the University of Toronto in 1933.
Students in the Birge-Carnegie Library at Victoria College in the 1940s

“What Is Online Searching?”, informational handout, 19 March 1976

Pamphlet on computer-based services at the University of Toronto Library in 1976

The main card catalogue of Robarts Library, August 1973

Dedication of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library on 13 April 1973

View of the library’s data centre in Robarts Library, 2017

Acquisition of one-millionth item

Article celebrating the acquisition of the one-millionth item in the Central Library of the University in 1962. The millionth item, a French royal patent dated 1563, was presented by the Varsity Fund, through the generosity of the Alumni of the…
Telegram informing Frederick Banting and J. J. R. Macleod that they have won the Nobel Prize for the year 1923

The University of Toronto Libraries Discovery of Insulin collection is inscribed in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.
Front endpapers signed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

The library’s accession register of new books, displaying books which were presented (given) to the library following the fire of 1890

Richard Landon (1942–2011)

Richard Landon speaking at the tenth anniversary of the Friends of the Fisher in November 1994.
David G. Esplin

Esplin was Assistant Librarian for Book Selection from 1966-1969 and Associate Librarian for Book Selection and Acquisition, 1969-1982.
Student sit-in at Simcoe Hall, protesting stack access to Robarts Library, 10 March 1972

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