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Robarts Library may have served as a model for the secret library in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Eco spent much of the time writing the novel at the University of Toronto, and the stairwell of the secret library bears a particularly strong resemblance to that in Robarts Library.
The University of Toronto Libraries system is the largest academic library in Canada and is ranked third among peer institutions in North America, behind only Harvard and Yale. [1] The system consists of 40 libraries located on University of Toronto's three university campuses: St. George (downtown Toronto), Mississauga and Scarborough. [2]
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is a library in the University of Toronto, constituting the largest repository of publicly accessible rare books and manuscripts in Canada. The library is also home to the university archives which, in addition to institutional records, also contains the papers of many important Canadian literary figures ...
The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library (Chinese: 鄭裕彤東亞圖書館) is a Canadian library and a part of the University of Toronto Libraries system. [1] [2] Located on the 8th floor of the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto's St. George campus, it is a major research collection on East Asian Studies in North America with over 660,000 volumes. [3]
The University of Toronto library system is the third largest in North America after Harvard and Yale with well over ten million printed items in its collections. Pages in category "University of Toronto libraries"
The Strategic Response Unit, modeled after the Toronto Police Service's Emergency Task Force unit, [1] is responsible for high-risk situations that cannot be resolved by regular police officers, such as activities involving armed criminals or explosives, or requiring hostage rescues or counter-terrorism measures. The SRU is also responsible for ...
The Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library has its roots in the Canada and Hong Kong Project in 1990. The project was co-directed by Diana Lary and Bernard Luk. [2] A Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies was established between the University of Toronto and York University. [3] It collected 5,000 items since its inception.
The Faculty of Information was founded as the University of Toronto Library School within the Ontario College of Education in 1928 and was housed at 315 Bloor Street. [2] In 1965, the school was designated as an independent unit within the university and became known as the School of Library Science and thus moved it quarters to 167 College Street and 256 McCaul Street. [3]