Resources Toronto Resources John P. Robarts Library - University of Toronto
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Address: University of Toronto, 130 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario The University of Toronto Library is the largest research library in Canada and the third largest academic library in North America. The Library has more than eight million books, periodicals, dictionaries, maps, and government publications. There are more than forty libraries in the University of Toronto Library system. The Robarts Library has a huge Judaica section with literally thousands of books, periodicals, newspapers, etc., in many languages dealing with various Jewish historical, religious and other subjects. The collection includes over 500 Yizkor books and a large collection of Holocaust materials. The Microfilm collection has many historic Jewish newspapers and periodicals, among them The Jewish Chronicle , London 1869 to 1965, Juedische Rundschau, Berlin 1901 to 1938, Bleter Far Geshikhte , Warsaw 1934 to 1938, Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums , Berlin 1837 to 1886 and many others. The Map Library has historical atlases, gazetteers, topographical and other maps for most of the world at scales 1:50,000 to 1:1,000,000 with comprehensive coverage for Canada, USA, and Europe. The reference, microform section and map library are open to the public. Access to the stacks and borrowing privileges are restricted to students, faculty, and holders of library cards. However, it is possible to get non-reference materials through interlibrary loan. Browse UTCat, their catalogue of holdings, at the library workstations or via the Internet. UTCat is augmented by an extensive array of other online databases, periodical indexes and full-text electronic journals, which are available to the public at library workstations. The library also has CD ROM workstations and wide ranging data files in the Data Library. |