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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
By Thomas Fisher Rare Book LibrarySociety & Culture
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto episodes
- Canada 150 - Cases 6 and 7Curator and Fisher librarian Pearce Carefoote guides visitors through the Fisher Library's current exhibition Struggle and Story: Canada in Print. The exhibition celebrates 150 years of Canada with a wide array of materials from our extensive collection of Canadiana.4 min
- Canada 150 - Case 5Curator and Fisher librarian Pearce Carefoote guides visitors through the Fisher Library's current exhibition Struggle and Story: Canada in Print. The exhibition celebrates 150 years of Canada with a wide array of materials from our extensive collection of Canadiana.3 min
- Canada 150 - Case 4Curator and Fisher librarian Pearce Carefoote guides visitors through the Fisher Library's current exhibition Struggle and Story: Canada in Print. The exhibition celebrates 150 years of Canada with a wide array of materials from our extensive collection of Canadiana.2 min
- Canada 150 - Case 3Curator and Fisher librarian Pearce Carefoote guides visitors through the Fisher Library's current exhibition Struggle and Story: Canada in Print. The exhibition celebrates 150 years of Canada with a wide array of materials from our extensive collection of Canadiana.2 min
- Canada 150 - Case 2Curator and Fisher librarian Pearce Carefoote guides visitors through the Fisher Library's current exhibition Struggle and Story: Canada in Print. The exhibition celebrates 150 years of Canada with a wide array of materials from our extensive collection of Canadiana.2 min
- Canada 150 - Theme of StruggleCurator and Fisher librarian Pearce Carefoote guides visitors through the Fisher Library's current exhibition Struggle and Story: Canada in Print. The exhibition celebrates 150 years of Canada with a wide array of materials from our extensive collection of Canadiana.2 min
- Introduction to the exhibitionCurator and Fisher librarian Pearce Carefoote guides visitors through the Fisher Library's current exhibition Struggle and Story: Canada in Print. The exhibition celebrates 150 years of Canada with a wide array of materials from our extensive collection of Canadiana.2 min
- Where Arts Meets Science: Traditions in Canadian Botanical Art - Linda LeGeyt Katz Lecture 2017The Johanna and Leon Katz Memorial Lecture 2017Where Arts Meets Science: Traditions in Canadian Botanical Art byLinda Le Geyt52 min
- Moving Parts: Shakespeare and the Book as PerformanceIn conjunction with the recent exhibition “So Long Lives This”: Celebrating Shakespeare, 1616–2016, Alan Galey discusses how Shakespeare’s works have inspired creativity and innovation in the book arts, from the earliest editions to the present. Drawing on the sometimes vexed relationship between print and performance, this talk considers how the Shakespearean book arts have negotiated the divide between page and stage.Alan Galey teaches book history, bibliography, and digital humanities at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. Along with co-curating the Fisher’s recent Shakespeare exhibition, he is also the author of The Shakespearean Archive: Experiments in New Media from the Renaissance to Postmodernity (Cambridge, 2014).48 min
- Reading Revolution - Mark Gayn and his collectionCo-curator Liz Ridolfo talks about Mark Gayn and his collection held at the Fisher. The Gayn Papers served as the basis for much of the items in the exhibition.4 min
About Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
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The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is the largest rare book library in Canada, holding over 800,000 books and 6,000 linear metres of manuscript material.