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href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1884</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branches</th><td class="infobox-data">100<sup id="cite_ref-100branches_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100branches-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align:center;background: #ededed;">Collection</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Size</th><td class="infobox-data">10.6 million (2021)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align:center;background: #ededed;">Access and use</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Circulation</th><td class="infobox-data">26.6 million (2023)<sup id="cite_ref-2024Budget_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2024Budget-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population served</th><td class="infobox-data">3M (2024)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Members</th><td class="infobox-data">2M <sup id="cite_ref-2024Budget_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2024Budget-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align:center;background: #ededed;">Other information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data">$252M (2024)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Director</th><td class="infobox-data">Vickery Bowles (City Librarian)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Employees</th><td class="infobox-data">2,000</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent organization</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Municipal_government_of_Toronto" title="Municipal government of Toronto">City of Toronto</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca">www<wbr />.torontopubliclibrary<wbr />.ca</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Toronto Public Library</b> (<b>TPL</b>) is a <a href="/wiki/Public_library" title="Public library">public library</a> system in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>. It is the largest public library system in Canada, and in 2023 had averaged a higher circulation per capita than any other public library system internationally, making it the largest neighbourhood-based library system in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within North America, it also had the highest circulation and visitors when compared to other large urban systems.<sup id="cite_ref-An2009_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-An2009-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Established as the library of the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Mechanics%27_Institute" title="Toronto Mechanics' Institute">Mechanics' Institute</a> in 1830, the Toronto Public Library now consists of 100 branch libraries<sup id="cite_ref-100branches_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100branches-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has over 26 million items in its collection.<sup id="cite_ref-An2009_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-An2009-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kupferman_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kupferman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-coll_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coll-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hist_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hist-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first subscription library service to open in the city was on 9 December 1810, at <a href="/wiki/Government_House_(Ontario)#Second_Government_House_(Elmsley_House)" title="Government House (Ontario)">Elmsley House</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BoY_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BoY-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Burning_of_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Burning of York">Burning of York</a> in April 1813, several American officers under Commodore <a href="/wiki/Issac_Chauncey" class="mw-redirect" title="Issac Chauncey">Issac Chauncey</a>'s command looted books from the library. Discovering his officers were in possession of the stolen books after they returned to <a href="/wiki/Sackets_Harbor,_New_York" title="Sackets Harbor, New York">Sackets Harbor</a>, Chauncey ordered the looted books returned to <a href="/wiki/York,_Upper_Canada" title="York, Upper Canada">York</a>. The stolen books were returned in two crates, although by the time they arrived, the library had already closed. The books were auctioned off in 1822.<sup id="cite_ref-BoY_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BoY-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Central_Library_1884.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Central_Library_1884.jpg/220px-Central_Library_1884.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Central_Library_1884.jpg/330px-Central_Library_1884.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Central_Library_1884.jpg/440px-Central_Library_1884.jpg 2x" data-file-width="467" data-file-height="323" /></a><figcaption>The Toronto Mechanics' Institute in 1884. A library was established at the Institute in 1830, whose collection was later absorbed into the Toronto Public Library in 1884.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1830, a library was established in the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Mechanics%27_Institute" title="Toronto Mechanics' Institute">York Mechanics' Institute</a>. In 1882, the provincial legislature, under Premier <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Mowat" title="Oliver Mowat">Oliver Mowat</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMyrvold198665_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMyrvold198665-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> passed <i>The Free Libraries Act, 1882</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruce199472_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruce199472-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A public campaign for a free library in Toronto preceded a referendum on the question, held on 1 January 1883, in which Torontonians voted in favour of creating a city library.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMyrvold198665_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMyrvold198665-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alderman <a href="/wiki/John_Hallam_(died_1900)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Hallam (died 1900)">John Hallam</a>, whom historian Barbara Myrvold describes as having an "almost idolatrous regard for books", was a principal booster for the new library.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMyrvold198665–65_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMyrvold198665–65-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1884, the Mechanic's Institute's collection became the Toronto Public Library. <a href="/wiki/James_Bain_(librarian)" title="James Bain (librarian)">James Bain</a> was the first chief librarian and he supplemented the collection with $15,000 worth of books purchased on a trip to England in late 1883.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1907 and 1916, ten libraries were built with funds from the <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie" title="Andrew Carnegie">Andrew Carnegie</a> Trust.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several of these <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_library" title="Carnegie library">Carnegie libraries</a> continue to be used by the public library; one, the original Central Reference Library, is now the <a href="/wiki/Koffler_Student_Centre" title="Koffler Student Centre">Koffler Student Centre</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Toronto" title="University of Toronto">University of Toronto</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Henry_Cummings_Campbell" title="Henry Cummings Campbell">Henry Cummings Campbell</a> was Chief Librarian of the Toronto Public Library from 1956 to 1978, and the first Chief Librarian to hold a professional library degree. He is credited with having contributed to the expansion of the library and its adaptation to an increasingly dynamic and multicultural city.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TorontoReferenceLibrary8.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/TorontoReferenceLibrary8.jpg/220px-TorontoReferenceLibrary8.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/TorontoReferenceLibrary8.jpg/330px-TorontoReferenceLibrary8.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/TorontoReferenceLibrary8.jpg/440px-TorontoReferenceLibrary8.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4928" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Reference_Library" title="Toronto Reference Library">Toronto Reference Library</a> was merged with the other library boards of Toronto following <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Toronto" title="Metropolitan Toronto">Metropolitan Toronto</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Amalgamation_of_Toronto" title="Amalgamation of Toronto">amalgamation in 1998</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Amalgamation_of_Toronto#1998_amalgamation" title="Amalgamation of Toronto">amalgamation of Metropolitan Toronto</a> in 1998, the individual library systems of all the Metro municipalities and of Metro itself were merged into the Toronto system:<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_York" title="East York">East York</a> Public Library, established 1967, 5 branches</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etobicoke" title="Etobicoke">Etobicoke</a> Public Library, established 1950, 13 branches</li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_York" title="North York">North York</a> Public Library, established 1955, 19 branches</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scarborough,_Toronto" class="mw-redirect" title="Scarborough, Toronto">Scarborough</a> Public Library, established 1955, 19 branches</li> <li><a href="/wiki/York,_Toronto" class="mw-redirect" title="York, Toronto">York</a> Public Library, established 1967, 6 branches</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Toronto" title="Metropolitan Toronto">Metropolitan Toronto</a> Public Library, established 1967, 1 branch</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Old_Toronto" title="Old Toronto">old Toronto</a> Public Library, established 1883, 33 branches</li></ul> <p>This made the Toronto Public Library the largest library system in North America, serving a population of 2.3 million people with 98 branches at the time. </p><p>In 2004, a new library was opened in the <a href="/wiki/St._James_Town" title="St. James Town">St. James Town</a> neighbourhood of Toronto, bringing the total number of branches to 99. In 2014, the city's 100th library was constructed and opened in <a href="/wiki/Scarborough_City_Centre" title="Scarborough City Centre">Scarborough City Centre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 27 October 2023, a <a href="/wiki/Ransomware" title="Ransomware">ransomware</a> attack was detected which brought down various online services, including the TPL website.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the library remained open with wireless internet available, public computers and services on its website were offline. Confidential information of some staff members was exposed in the breach.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Toronto Public Library is governed by a board appointed by <a href="/wiki/Toronto_City_Council" title="Toronto City Council">Toronto City Council</a>. The board is composed of eight citizen members, four city councillors and the mayor or his or her designate.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Services">Services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Collections">Collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Toronto_Public_Library_-_Lillian_H._Smith_Branch.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Toronto_Public_Library_-_Lillian_H._Smith_Branch.JPG/220px-Toronto_Public_Library_-_Lillian_H._Smith_Branch.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Toronto_Public_Library_-_Lillian_H._Smith_Branch.JPG/330px-Toronto_Public_Library_-_Lillian_H._Smith_Branch.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Toronto_Public_Library_-_Lillian_H._Smith_Branch.JPG/440px-Toronto_Public_Library_-_Lillian_H._Smith_Branch.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>The Lillian H. Smith branch of TPL holds the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, and the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books.</figcaption></figure> <p>The library's collection count is over 12 million items.<sup id="cite_ref-An2009_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-An2009-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kupferman_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kupferman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Special_collections">Special collections</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Special collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Toronto Public Library's special collections is located in several branches throughout the city. A number of special collections are housed at the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Special Collections Centre in the Toronto Reference Library.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Special collections at the reference library includes the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, and the Baldwin Collection of Canadiana.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Special collections located at other branches of the Toronto Public Library Merril Collection of Science Fiction, and the <a href="/wiki/Osborne_Collection_of_Early_Children%27s_Books" title="Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books">Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books</a>, located at <a href="/wiki/Lillian_H._Smith" title="Lillian H. Smith">Lillian H. Smith</a> branch.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection is spread throughout four branches of TPL, Malvern, Maria A. Shchuka, Parkdale, York Woods branch.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bookmobiles">Bookmobiles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bookmobiles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BookmobileTwo2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/BookmobileTwo2.jpg/220px-BookmobileTwo2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/BookmobileTwo2.jpg/330px-BookmobileTwo2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/BookmobileTwo2.jpg/440px-BookmobileTwo2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a><figcaption>Toronto Public Library operates two <a href="/wiki/Bookmobile" title="Bookmobile">bookmobiles</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The TPL operates two Bookmobile buses (24' Blue Bird CS), targeting communities who lack easy access to a neighbourhood branch. There are 32 regular Bookmobile stops in Toronto, including one on <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Islands" title="Toronto Islands">Ward's Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bookmobile concept was previously used in the library systems of the former municipalities of <a href="/wiki/North_York" title="North York">North York</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scarborough,_Toronto" class="mw-redirect" title="Scarborough, Toronto">Scarborough</a> as well as in Toronto as far back as 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Musical_instruments">Musical instruments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Musical instruments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since April 2016, the Parkdale branch has a collection of musical instruments including guitars, violins, keyboards, percussion instruments, and others that can be borrowed for free with a library card. Since then, the Musical Instrument Lending Libraries have expanded to the Downsview and York Woods branches.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="tpl:map">tpl:map</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: tpl:map"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adult residents of Toronto can reserve a pass to a number of Toronto attractions with their library cards — one pass each per year to each participating destination. On the first of each month, a limited number of dates become available for the succeeding month (i.e. September passes become available on August 1), and eligible card holders make a reservation for a specific date. The number of visitors who can share a pass varies according to the attraction. Passes for popular sites, such as the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Zoo" title="Toronto Zoo">Toronto Zoo</a>, the ROM (<a href="/wiki/Royal_Ontario_Museum" title="Royal Ontario Museum">Royal Ontario Museum</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Ontario_Science_Centre" title="Ontario Science Centre">Ontario Science Centre</a>, are often in very high demand.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Technology">Technology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Technology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Toronto Public Library technology services include public access computers and free wireless internet access in all branches. The Library also provides access to <a href="/wiki/E-book" class="mw-redirect" title="E-book">e-books</a>, music, movies, and other electronic collections. All libraries also include at least one black-and-white printer where users are charged $0.15 per page. The Toronto Reference Library holds the only public colour printer in the system. The Toronto Public Library website allows users to reserve materials and have them transferred to the user's preferred branch. <sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The library also operates a Dial-a-Story telephone hotline, which reads stories to children in sixteen languages.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The library system uses NFC pads on each book where users only need to place the book on a table and checks out without scanning. </p><p>Ten branches of the Toronto Public Library also house Digital Innovation Hubs, where patrons can reserve a workstation or equipment and attend workshops to bring new and emerging technology to the community.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, the Fabrication Studio opened at the newly renovated North York Central branch.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This space includes sewing machines, a serger, an embroidery machine, a button maker, and a vinyl printer/cutter.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They also offer free classes on using the equipment and other fabrication-related topics like knitting and crochet, embroidery, and watercolor painting.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Digital_content">Digital content</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Digital content"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Toronto Public Library cardholders can digitally borrow books, music and movies since 2014 by creating an account on the online platform <a href="/wiki/Hoopla_(digital_media_service)" title="Hoopla (digital media service)">Hoopla</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, since 2018, the Toronto Public Library has partnered with <a href="/wiki/Kanopy" title="Kanopy">Kanopy</a>, a streaming platform with over 30,000 films and documentaries, that lets the library users stream up to eight items per month after registering using their library card.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The library's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/digital-archive/">Digital Archive</a> provides instant access to historical images—including photographs from the Toronto Star Photograph Archive—postcards, maps, rare digitized books and more.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Toronto Public Library offers <a href="/wiki/Audiobook" title="Audiobook">audiobook</a>, <a href="/wiki/E-book" class="mw-redirect" title="E-book">e-book</a>, and eMagazine services, including <a href="/wiki/OverDrive,_Inc." title="OverDrive, Inc.">OverDrive eBooks & eAudiobooks</a>, Zinio eMagazines, OneClick Digital eAudiobooks, <a href="/wiki/Safari_Books_Online" class="mw-redirect" title="Safari Books Online">Safari Tech & Business Books Online</a>, TumbleBook Library, <a href="/wiki/EBSCO_Publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="EBSCO Publishing">Ebsco eBooks</a>, delivered via the library's website.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of June 2024, the Toronto Public Library's website is blocked in <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">mainland</a> <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Budget">Budget</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2019</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The Toronto Public Library had an operating budget of $206,880,105 in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Toronto Public Library had an operating budget of $217,334,410 in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Toronto Public Library had an operating budget of $221,576,307 in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Toronto Public Library had an operating budget of $228,305,383 in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Toronto Public Library had an operating budget of $234,610,258 in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Branches">Branches</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Branches"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output 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Dundurn. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1459721074" title="Special:BookSources/978-1459721074"><bdi>978-1459721074</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Free+Books+for+All%3A+The+Public+Library+Movement+in+Ontario%2C+1850%E2%80%931930&rft.pub=Dundurn&rft.date=1994-01-09&rft.isbn=978-1459721074&rft.aulast=Bruce&rft.aufirst=Lorne&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffreebooksforallp0000bruc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AToronto+Public+Library" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMyrvold1986" class="citation book cs1">Myrvold, Barbara (1986). "The First Hundred Years: Toronto Public Library, 1883–1983". In McNally, Peter F. (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/readingsincanadi0000unse_m8z3"><i>Readings in Canadian Library History</i></a>. Ottawa: <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Library_Association" title="Canadian Library Association">Canadian Library Association</a>. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/readingsincanadi0000unse_m8z3/page/65">65–89</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-88802-196-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-88802-196-0"><bdi>978-0-88802-196-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+First+Hundred+Years%3A+Toronto+Public+Library%2C+1883%E2%80%931983&rft.btitle=Readings+in+Canadian+Library+History&rft.place=Ottawa&rft.pages=65-89&rft.pub=Canadian+Library+Association&rft.date=1986&rft.isbn=978-0-88802-196-0&rft.aulast=Myrvold&rft.aufirst=Barbara&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Freadingsincanadi0000unse_m8z3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AToronto+Public+Library" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPenman1983" class="citation book cs1">Penman, Margaret (1983). <i>A Century of Service: Toronto Public Library, 1883-1983</i>. Toronto: Toronto Public Library. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-919486-73-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-919486-73-7"><bdi>978-0-919486-73-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Century+of+Service%3A+Toronto+Public+Library%2C+1883-1983&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pub=Toronto+Public+Library&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=978-0-919486-73-7&rft.aulast=Penman&rft.aufirst=Margaret&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AToronto+Public+Library" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Public_Library&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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