In celebration of #indigenouslanguages day, we're holding an open house this afternoon featuring manuscripts, dictionaries, hymnals, periodicals, and primers in Indigenous languages! Please come visit. The open house runs until 6pm.

Our last workshop of the academic year is next Thursday (March 21) evening at 6pm. It will focus on artists' books, and it will feature both contemporary and historical examples (including this famous Ed Ruscha book). Attendance is limited. Register at: libcal.library.utoronto.ca/event/3792436.

Want to know more about this exhibition case of #popupbooks devoted to #AliceInWonderland ? Why not come to the library this Thurs, March 14, when the curator of the exhibition The Immersive Movable Object will be doing an hour-long tour. It begins at 6pm - and it's free!

Beginning shortly at noon: our Black History Month Open House! Come visit us to see everything from 18th century Ethiopian manuscripts to recently printed in Columbia. Material will be on display until 4pm. All are welcome, so please come and say hi!

Registration is now open for our first evening workshop of 2024, An Introduction to Special Collections. This is but one of the items that will be discussed on Jan. 25. The workshop is limited to 25 people. To register, please visit: libcal.library.utoronto.ca/event/3782250

Fisher librarian Liz is there somewhere giving info about the library.

First 90 minutes of our opening for University of Toronto’s fall campus day and we’ve already had almost 200 people visit us. Remember we’re open until 4pm today!

Don't forget: we're open tomorrow to visitors as part of University of Toronto's fall campus day. Come and visit us between 10am-4pm. View the exhibition on toy theatres, or just come to chat and learn more about our collections. Poster is all ready to go. Hopefully see you tomorrow!

Have you wondered how the diverse peoples visiting and living on the lands of Canada have embraced print technologies to tell their stories? Please join us next Thurs evening, Nov. 23, for a FREE workshop, Canada in Print. Register at: libcal.library.utoronto.ca/event/3763681.

Have you been putting off coming to Fisher to view our current exhibition on toy theatres? Our weekday hours don't always work out? Good news: we will have a special Saturday opening this coming weekend, Nov. 18! Please come and visit us. We're open from 10am to 4pm, come say hi!

Tomorrow (Oct. 25) at 5pm: Please come to the Fisher for a curator-led tour of the current exhibition A World of Fancies: The Toy Theatre and the Living Image. There's no need to register: just meet inside the library's main mezzanine space. We hope to see you there!

Come join me at Fisher Library in Toronto for an exploration of Ethiopian manuscript culture. This event is sponsored by the University of Toronto, Bikila Award, and the Mellon Foundation. I'm excited to be a part of a gathering that places community involvement at the forefront.

Material in place for the ScienceLiteracyWeek open house. Please come and visit! We’ll be open until 6pm.

Good news: for the first time since March 2020, the Fisher will be offering extended hours on Thursday evenings! We'll be open until 8pm, so please come and visit. Ideal for those that want to view our current exhibition on toy theatres! fisher.library.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/cu…

U of T has acquired a rare manuscript of Sir John Mandeville’s Travels. Written in the mid-1300s, this “medieval blockbuster” captures Mandeville’s adventures across Asia and northern Africa.

Learn more: bit.ly/3EE7bYv

Awesome start to our #Shakespeare First Folio event, with a stirring reading from it. All four 17th century folios are on display, along with other Shakespeare material. We're open until 8pm tonight, so please join us! More readings later this aft.