User:Mr. Absurd/Toronto Reference Library
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| Name | Toronto Reference Library |
| Location | 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario |
| Country | Canada |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Architect | Raymond Moriyama |
| Client | Metropolitan Toronto Library (now Toronto Public Library) |
| Engineer | Robert Halsall and Associates Ltd. |
| Completion Date | 1977 |
| Cost | C$30 million |
The Toronto Reference Library (previously the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library) is a six-story research and reference library branch of the Toronto Public Library in Toronto, Canada. It was designed by architect Raymond Moriyama for the cost of CAD$30 million and opened in 1977.
Its collections contain over 1.6 million volumes (monographs and bound periodicals), 2.5 million other materials (films, microforms, maps, fine art, ephemera, etc.), and over 360,000 metres (1.8 million feet) of manuscript materials. It is the largest of the Toronto Public Library's 99 branches, the largest public reference library in Canada,[1] and one of the three largest libraries in Toronto, after the Robarts Library of the University of Toronto and the Scott Library of York University.
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[edit] Special collections
[edit] Audobon collection
[edit] Baldwin Room
The Baldwin Room is a collection of books, manuscripts, ephemera, and pictures related to Upper Canada and early Toronto. The collection was named after Robert Baldwin, a leading political reformer in Upper Canada and pre-Confederation Premier.
The collection of printed ephemera contains over 28,000 items, some dating as far back as the 18th century, including war posters, campaign literature, broadsides, handbills, restaurant menus, and train tickets. The collection also contains more than 24,000 books, periodicals, and pamphlets published before 1900 that feature Canada or Canadian authors. Among the most valuable of these items is a 1512 edition of Chronicon, by Eusebius of Caesarea, as well as an large set of the Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France (or Jesuit Relations) dating from the 1600s.
[edit] The Toronto Star Newspaper Centre
[edit] Urban Affairs
[edit] Performing Arts Centre
Among the special collections is 1) the Arthur Conan Doyle Room, a collection devoted to the works of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, 2) the The library also has an extensive performing arts collection, including papers and information on many Canadian artists, such as Al Waxman.
