If you are looking for something light to read over the holidays, check our Popular Reading Collection located on the main floor of the Library behind the LCD panel. We have added new books to this collection which now consists of over 150 titles.

Submit your holiday photos online and see them displayed in Special Collections on the Library’s newly redesigned 4th floor, alongside traditional collections of Christmas advertisements from the Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and winter scenes from the Historical Photograph Collection. A $50 bookstore gift card will be awarded to one of our holiday photo contest participants to help start the new semester in January. Contest closes January 5th , 2009 and the prizewinner will be announced January 6th .

The winners of our recent cell phone survey draw were Theresa, a 3rd year nursing student, and Vanessa, a 4th year computer science student seen above receiving their iPods from Madeleine Lefebvre, Chief Librarian. Thanks to everyone who participated. Selected results of the survey are available on the Library’s website.

Three new portable DVD players may now be borrowed from the Circulation or AV/ILL Desks during the hours that the Library is open. They may be borrowed for 3 hours, long enough to view a feature film.
For more information about borrowing the equipment, see the DVD Player Lending Policy.

20 new iMacs have been installed on the west side of the Learning Commons on the main floor of the Library. Along with the usual Mac offerings, including the Safari browser, these machines also provide access to the Microsoft Office and Adobe CS3 suites of software.

Looking for a good book to read? This fall, the Library has selected nearly 75 novels and paperbacks for a new leisure reading collection. In addition to current novels, we’ve also purchased mysteries, sci-fi, romance, and some historical fiction. You’ll find all these titles on a bookcase behind the flat panel display on the main floor of the library. There are comfy chairs beside the collection. We encourage you to take a break, browse the shelves and relax with a good read. All titles are available for the standard loan period of two weeks. Keep checking as new titles are added. We will also be implementing a virtual suggestion box … stay tuned for more developments!

DATE & TIME:

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
7:30pm

LOCATION:

Toronto Metropolitan University
Library Building, Room LIB 72
350 Victoria Street, Toronto

COST:

$8.00 – register online or pay at the door

The Hollywood Librarian is the first full-length documentary film to focus on the work and lives of librarians. Using the entertaining and appealing context of feature movies, the film will have some surprises for people who may think they know what librarians do! American film contains hundreds of examples of librarians and libraries on screen — some positive, some negative, some laughable and some dead wrong. Films such as Sophie’s Choice, Philadelphia and It’s a Wonderful Life show librarians as negative stereotypes. The librarians in Lorenzo’s Oil, Desk Set and The Shawshank Redemption, on the other hand, are competent and professional. Dozens of interviews of real librarians will be interwoven with movie clips of cinematic librarians and serve as transitions between the themes of censorship, intellectual freedom, children and librarians, pay equity and funding issues, and the value of reading.You will meet the dedicated children’s librarian, the witty library director, the high-tech corporate librarian, the smart medical librarian, and the dedicated cataloger. You will see a prison literacy program, an elementary school library, a town faced with the most severe library crisis in decades, and much more!

See more descriptions and comments from sites that have screened the film at www.hollywoodlibrarian.com

Sponsored by the Toronto Metropolitan University Library and the Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA).

Come see Toronto Metropolitan University alumna and Commonweath Writers’ Prize – shortlisted author TISH COHEN reading from her acclaimed novel Town House.
Thursday April 10 – 7 pm
FREE
Toronto Metropolitan University Library
350 Victoria Street

Please RSVP by April 4 to Anna Tassone at 416-979-5141

In honour of Black History Month, the Library is hosting an exhibit entitled “Black History in Ontario”, from the McCurdy collection of the Ontario Black History Society. The exhibit is located on the main floor of the Library in the Information and Learning Commons, and will be on site from February 25 to 29.