Publish Yourself!
Attention indie writers: wondering what to do with your NaNoWriMo masterpiece? Or do you have a manuscript you'd love to share with library users? You're in luck! With three library services — BiblioBoard, Pressbooks and the Indie Author Project — you have all the tools you need to format your...
Free Training Videos for Professional Skills Development
Whether you're in school or mid-career, sometimes you're going to run into new situations where you don't know what to do. Now, we have a resource you can turn to for guidance. SAGE Video is a collection of educational videos for students and professionals in the following areas: Leadership Business...
Stream Theatre Online for Free
Do you miss theatre? What would you give to watch Benedict Cumberbatch staggering across the stage in a loincloth and horror makeup as Frankenstein's Monster? Or Gillian Anderson swanning around in a pink kimono as Blanche Dubois? Leah Harvey and CJ Beckford in the National Theatre's Production of Small Island...
Free Music Apps from Naxos Music Library
Image credit: Edu Grande (edgr/CC0) Does anyone else have fond memories of second-hand record stores? Flipping through crates of old vinyl, finding music you didn't even know you wanted? Naxos Music Library is the closest digital thing I've found to that sense of discovery. Naxos has been collecting, organizing and...
New Holds Policies for Shorter Wait Times
The information in this blog post is no longer accurate. For the latest information on borrowing materials and placing holds, see the Using the Library section of our webpage. Now that the library's offering curbside pickup of holds, we want to make it faster and easier for you to get...
Learn Online with SAGE Video
SAGE Video is an educational resource that provides access to over 3,000 streaming videos in the fields of business, management, education, social sciences, psychology, nursing and more. These videos are developed with leading academics and practitioners who are experts in their fields. Image in the public domain via Pixabay. A...
Use Code TPL2020 to Get a Temporary Digital Library Card with OverDrive
This campaign has closed. Temporary OverDrive digital cards will expire in September, 2021. Now, you can register online for a permanent Digital Access Card! Torontonians who don't have a Toronto Public Library card can now access OverDrive, our largest collection of ebooks and audiobooks, with the new Instant Digital Card....
38 Ways to Use the Library from Home
This post is no longer being updated. Visit our eBooks & Online Content page for digital books, movies, magazines and more! - August 17, 2022 Here's a quick guide to all of the online services you can use with your library card. And now, if you don't have a library...
Toronto's Six Millionth Ebook of 2019
Last Thursday, just before midnight, somebody borrowed Toronto Public Library's six millionth ebook of 2019. This is a new record for us; in 2018, Torontonians borrowed more ebooks than anyone else in the world, at just over five million. We've beat our own personal best! The six millionth ebook borrowed...
Find Your Funding Match with Grant Connect
Are you involved with a Canadian nonprofit or charity? Are you looking for funding? You might be interested in Grant Connect. Grant Connect is a fundraising research platform that helps you to sort through thousands of foundations, corporations and government programs to find the right funders for your organization. You...