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posts by TMU Libraries" rel="author">TMU Libraries</a></span></span> </div> <h3><b>Growth | Innovation | The Future<img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-47054 size-medium" src="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/TMUlib-50-logo-circle-300x300.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/TMUlib-50-logo-circle-300x300.png 300w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/TMUlib-50-logo-circle-650x650.png 650w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/TMUlib-50-logo-circle-150x150.png 150w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/TMUlib-50-logo-circle-768x768.png 768w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/TMUlib-50-logo-circle.png 1042w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></b></h3> <p> </p> <h4><b>The building</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year, the Library building celebrates its <a href="https://library.torontomu.ca/info/50years/">50th anniversary</a>, a milestone marking an opportunity to reflect back and look ahead to the next fifty years.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1974, the Library building—</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">designed by </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Webb Zerafa Menkes Housden Partnership (WZMP), the same firm that designed the CN Tower (also under construction in 1974!)—</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">opened at the corner of Gould and Victoria, becoming a new landmark for the university. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Discussions for the building began in the late 1960s, with construction beginning in 1972. The brutalist style architecture, which embraced ideals of simplicity and functionalism, complemented the egalitarian function of the library as a place to access information, while also highlighting modern ideas and new ways of thinking. The design was not only forward thinking, it also embodied the creative, scholarly, and practical work happening at the institution and within the Library.</span></p> <p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-47083 size-medium alignleft lazyload" data-src="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/brulatist1-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" data-srcset="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/brulatist1-200x300.jpg 200w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/brulatist1-100x150.jpg 100w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/brulatist1.jpg 400w" data-sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200/300;" /></p> <p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-47084 size-medium alignleft lazyload" data-src="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/brutalist2-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" data-srcset="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/brutalist2-200x300.jpg 200w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/brutalist2-100x150.jpg 100w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/brutalist2.jpg 400w" data-sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200/300;" /></p> <p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-47085 size-medium alignnone lazyload" data-src="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/buildingex-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" data-srcset="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/buildingex-200x300.jpg 200w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/buildingex-100x150.jpg 100w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/buildingex.jpg 400w" data-sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200/300;" /></p> <h6 style="text-align: left;"><em><br /> </em>Images courtesy of TMU Archives & Special Collections, RG 122.10.93</h6> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;">___</p> <h4></h4> <h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>1970s</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When it opened, the Library was called the Learning Resource Centre, and the building was shared with faculties and departments. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout the 1970s the Centre (Library) grew, acquiring collections and resources that addressed the needs of a growing academic institution. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout the decade, the Centre introduced new services and outreach programs for students, and embraced innovative technologies for automation and access, becoming, for example, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the first library in North America to install IBM’s DOBIS/LIBIS online computer system, which operated all circulation and inter-library loans</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Media collections, digitization of resources, and new study and gathering areas helped to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaborations, and highlight the Centre as an ecosystem for research, learning and creative pursuits. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the next four and half decades the Resource Centre would become the Ryerson University Library and Archives, and now TMU Libraries. It would (and still) continue to push innovation and advances in academic library services, resources, programming and opportunities for the university community. </span></p> <figure id="attachment_47057" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47057" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-47057 size-large lazyload" data-src="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/1993_Library_Interior_SeeArchives_RG122_10_93005-650x441.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="441" data-srcset="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/1993_Library_Interior_SeeArchives_RG122_10_93005-650x441.jpg 650w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/1993_Library_Interior_SeeArchives_RG122_10_93005-300x204.jpg 300w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/1993_Library_Interior_SeeArchives_RG122_10_93005-150x102.jpg 150w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/1993_Library_Interior_SeeArchives_RG122_10_93005-768x521.jpg 768w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/1993_Library_Interior_SeeArchives_RG122_10_93005-1536x1042.jpg 1536w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/1993_Library_Interior_SeeArchives_RG122_10_93005-2048x1390.jpg 2048w" data-sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 650px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 650/441;" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-47057" class="wp-caption-text">Image courtesy of TMU Archives & Special Collections</figcaption></figure> <h4 style="text-align: center;">___</h4> <h4><b>1980s</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the 1980s, budget cuts loomed large over academic institutions. Despite cuts, the school continued to grow, and the Library continued to develop collections, services, and programs to meet the expanding needs of faculty, researchers and students. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Library participated in a new network system developed by engineers at the federal Department of Communications. The network was composed of library terminals that linked to terminals in homes and other education institutions, allowing users to retrieve information from numerous connected databases. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the system wasn’t sustainable, the Library was on the cusp of what would one day be possible: the sharing of collections across academic libraries. </span></p> <h4 style="text-align: center;">___</h4> <h4><b>1990s</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the 1990s, technological improvements to searching and accessing information happened quickly. In 1990, two new CD-ROM terminals were installed, which, for the first time put searching and discovery of electronic resources in the hands of library users.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just one year later, faculty and students were able to access library services and collections via the university’s mainframe, enabling 24/7 access from onsite computer workstations and homes. Library users could now search collections, place interlibrary loan requests, email research help questions, and view research guides from their own computers. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 1990s also saw the development of the Library’s first website, providing access to the library catalogue, subject research guides, and information about library collections, hours, and services. </span></p> <figure id="attachment_47056" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47056" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-47056 size-large lazyload" data-src="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/RG76-14-313_CD-ROM-TECH-650x449.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="449" data-srcset="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/RG76-14-313_CD-ROM-TECH-650x449.jpg 650w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/RG76-14-313_CD-ROM-TECH-300x207.jpg 300w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/RG76-14-313_CD-ROM-TECH-150x104.jpg 150w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/RG76-14-313_CD-ROM-TECH-768x531.jpg 768w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/RG76-14-313_CD-ROM-TECH-1536x1061.jpg 1536w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/RG76-14-313_CD-ROM-TECH-2048x1415.jpg 2048w" data-sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 650px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 650/449;" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-47056" class="wp-caption-text">Image courtesy of TMU Archives & Special Collections</figcaption></figure> <h4 style="text-align: center;">___</h4> <h4><b>2000s</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2000, the Library introduced its first online chat service, which provided real-time online research help to the community. Users could now get immediate research help from home.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In 2002, the Library pioneered a collaborative chat service together with York University and the University of Guelph, which opened up more availability for real-time research assistance. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The service continues today as Ask Us, and includes </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">sixteen </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">libraries across Ontario.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Between 2000 to 2010, many changes to the building also took place. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alumnus</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Ronald D. Besse donated one million dollars to establish the Ronald D. Besse Information and Learning Commons on the main floor (2nd floor) of the Library. The Commons opened in 2004, with 140 computer workstations that provided access to the internet, electronic resources and productivity software. </span></p> <figure id="attachment_47058" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47058" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-47058 size-full lazyload" data-src="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/Commons.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="400" data-srcset="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/Commons.jpg 600w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/Commons-300x200.jpg 300w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/Commons-150x100.jpg 150w" data-sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600/400;" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-47058" class="wp-caption-text">Image courtesy of TMU Archives & Special Collections</figcaption></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2007, the Library renovated the 3rd and 4th floor of the building, adding study space, including five new carrels with state-of-the-art adaptive technology for students with disabilities, and a new home for the University Archives and Special Collections.</span></p> <p> </p> <h4 style="text-align: center;">___</h4> <h4><b>2010s</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2015, after receiving a generous donation from Isaac </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Olowolafe </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jr., the Library opened the Isaac </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Olowolafe </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jr. Digital Media Experience Lab (DME). Housed on the 3rd floor of the SLC building, the Library’s DME</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> opened to assist, primarily undergraduate students, in learning basic and advanced technology skills, while providing access to new and emerging technology. The DME quickly became a resource to support student learning in the classroom as well as extracurricular pursuits.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2017, the Library Collaboratory opened on the 3rd floor of the Library building. The Collaboratory was, and continues to be, the Library’s first space dedicated to graduate students and faculty in need of collaborative research space, access to technology and technological support. The multidisciplinary research space continues to expand access to technology, including 3D printers, a laser cutter, drones, and prototyping tools. </span></p> <figure id="attachment_47065" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47065" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-47065 size-large lazyload" data-src="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20190327-Ryerson-Library-2392-650x433.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="433" data-srcset="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20190327-Ryerson-Library-2392-650x433.jpg 650w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20190327-Ryerson-Library-2392-300x200.jpg 300w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20190327-Ryerson-Library-2392-150x100.jpg 150w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20190327-Ryerson-Library-2392-768x512.jpg 768w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20190327-Ryerson-Library-2392.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 650px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 650/433;" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-47065" class="wp-caption-text">Image courtesy of Communication and Marketing, TMU Libraries</figcaption></figure> <h4 style="text-align: center;">___</h4> <h4><b>2020s</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In early 2020, the Law Library opened on the 4th floor of the Podium building. Supporting the new Lincoln Alexander School of Law, the Law Library became the first branch library, and along with the university name change, the Ryerson University Library became TMU Libraries.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_47062" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47062" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-47062 size-large lazyload" data-src="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20230404-TMU-Library-0532-1-1-650x434.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="434" data-srcset="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20230404-TMU-Library-0532-1-1-650x434.jpg 650w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20230404-TMU-Library-0532-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20230404-TMU-Library-0532-1-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20230404-TMU-Library-0532-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20230404-TMU-Library-0532-1-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20230404-TMU-Library-0532-1-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w" data-sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 650px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 650/434;" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-47062" class="wp-caption-text">Image courtesy of Communication and Marketing, TMU Libraries</figcaption></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, shortly after opening, all services went online as the university closed its buildings due to Covid-19. The Libraries quickly adjusted, offering online programming, services, research help, contactless drop offs, and pickups. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prior to the pandemic, plans were formulating to install an Immersion Studio on the 3rd floor of the Library, and in 2021, those plans were realized, providing students with access to an immersive space to develop projects and present research–all with the support of an immersive technology specialist.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One year later, in 2022, TMU Libraries installed a Material ConneXion collection. The 1000 piece onsite collection of material items was added to complement an online collection of 10,000 items. Students and faculty now have hands-on access to explore a variety of materials representing current trends in design, materials research and production. </span></p> <figure id="attachment_47064" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47064" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-47064 size-large lazyload" data-src="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20240327-TMU-Libraries-2138-1-650x434.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="434" data-srcset="https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20240327-TMU-Libraries-2138-1-650x434.jpg 650w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20240327-TMU-Libraries-2138-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20240327-TMU-Libraries-2138-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20240327-TMU-Libraries-2138-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20240327-TMU-Libraries-2138-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://s38328.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/20240327-TMU-Libraries-2138-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w" data-sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 650px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 650/434;" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-47064" class="wp-caption-text">Image courtesy of Communication and Marketing, TMU Libraries</figcaption></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Libraries opened a Media Production Studio in 2023. The beginner level studio is the first Library space to offer podcasting, video production, and photography in support of creative research endeavors in all subject areas. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And, this year, the Libraries launched Omni, a new search tool which connects the TMU Libraries catalogue to 18 other Ontario university libraries (making, what the Libraries had explored in the 1980s – the sharing of collections – a reality), expanding access to over 25 million material items for all TMU students, faculty, researchers and staff.</span></p> <h4></h4> <p> </p> <h4>What’s next…</h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout the past 50 years, TMU Libraries has grown to now occupy ten floors of the Library building, and will soon be opening a second branch library supporting the new School of Medicine in Brampton. 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