Kanopy is our new video streaming service, free with your library card! Pick from over 30,000 movies.
How’s your piggy bank looking?
Did you know that the Toronto Public Library offers Personal Finance programs to help you with your taxes, RRSPs, TFSAs, mortgages, small businesses, and more?
Programs are offered year-round, but January-March is Personal Finance season! Take a look at what we’re offering.
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Libraries Transform through digital literacy, discovery, and lifelong learning.
Thanks to our friends at Sony Pictures Entertainment and the cast of Jumanji for creating this public service announcement to help promote the transformative resources libraries and library staff offer.
If you’re interested in digital literacy, discovery, and lifelong learning, find out more about all the free programs we have to offer!
Our Special Collections department has some helpful reading suggestions for the 10 most popular New Years Resolutions. Seventeen Steps to Slimness: A Sherlockian Diet Manual is recommended for those of you who are aiming for #2 - Lose Weight!
Our favourite resolution is #10. Read more!
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Character to friend: Don’t worry. It’s over.
Me: Nah, kids. There’s 75 pages left.
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Mr. Henderson, you know the rules. Five at at a time. You already have five books checked out. Stranger Things, Chapter Three: The Pollywog
We welcome curiosity voyages!
I watched that scene and literally screamed at my television. Ms. Librarian needs to get with the times.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
No limits! <3
We do have a borrowing limit... but it’s 50 physical items. It might be a bit hard to carry that much curiosity!
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Ooooooo!!! We’re ready for this too!
With the movie coming out in March 2018, there is plenty of time to read the book before hitting the theatres!
Source: bookriot.com
When boys refuse my book recommendation because it has a girl on the cover
I know that feel, Hermione.
All books are boy books. All books are girl books. All books are for any reader of any gender who could enjoy them!
It’s cold outside! Visit your local library branch and cozy up with some good books. We even have a few branches with fireplaces, for an extra guard against the winter chill!
What did Toronto read, watch, and borrow in 2017? Check out our interactive map and Top 10 lists!
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Classic lit + Onion-style headlines = the mashup you never knew you always wanted. Click here to see all 14!
brought to you by our resident genius, @roonil-freakin-wazlib
These sound pretty accurate to us! What do you think? (Links contain multiple available formats).
When you’re finally reading a book you’ve wanted to read for a long time and it’s kind of just…eh.
Stuck in a reading slump? Try some of our recommended reading lists! We also have recommend teen reads and children’s reads... although we definitely think they’re great at any age!
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For those of you who are writing exams, or find this a stressful time of year!
Feeling the winter blues? You can access light therapy lamps at 9 of our library branches!
Our Toronto Public Library Foundation “I’m Library People” t-shirts are now available for ordering online!
Are you library people?
Planning on going shopping next weekend?
The Friends of TPL are having another huge book sale at the Toronto Reference Library next from Thurs. Nov. 23 - Sat. Nov. 25. Most items are $1 and in great condition!
Please note that this is a cash only sale. All proceeds support library programs and services. See you soon!