REDMOND, Wash. — June 8, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced two key advances in Windows Live™ Book Search, a service that will enable Web searchers to find answers from authoritative, trusted book ...

The University of Toronto’s massive library system has received high grades for the third year in a row. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), based in Washington, D.C., has ranked the ...

What could 200 University of Toronto librarians do to help out during the holiday season? They could forgive library fines for a week. That, according to U of T, was how Food for Fines was born in ...

The University of Toronto’s Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library celebrated its 15th anniversary this week as a hub for academic exploration and cultural dialogue. The library houses the ...

Speaking of images, here’s a collection of 4,500 plates of anatomical illustrations from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library that spans the years from 1522 to 1867. These are almost works of art, in ...

Book digitization has been going on at the University of Toronto Libraries for some time. In fact, I wrote about scanning at UT and included a link to a video of the scanning robot almost a year ago.

Librarian Ksenya Kiebuzinski shares a handpicked selection of rare Ukrainian texts from the University of Toronto's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Ksenya Kiebuzinski, the Slavic Resources ...

The last decade has seen a relative boom in the construction of central public libraries across North America. The social roles these public institutions play for society is a pressing issue in light ...