Freedom to Read Week is a month away, but Toronto Public Library trustee Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler got a jump on the festivities today by releasing, on his Twitter feed, the 2010 report from the TPL's Materials ... Read More »
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Canadian YA fantasy writer K.V. Johansen was recently a guest of the 22nd International Book Fair held in Skopje, Macedonia. Over a period of three days, beginning April 12, Johansen launched the Macedonian translation of ... Read More »
April 29, 2010 | Filed under: Events
According to a report in the Toronto Star, the Toronto Public Library had its best year ever last year in terms of patron usage. Library users checked out more than 31 million items (books, magazines, ... Read More »
January 20, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Earlier today, Toronto Public Library city librarian Jane Pyper sent a brief memo to staff announcing that the TPL board has come to a tentative agreement with the Toronto Public Library Workers' Union Local 4948, ... Read More »
November 4, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news
After nearly two weeks of silence surrounding negotiations between the Toronto Public Library and the Toronto Public Library Workers Union (TPLWU), it was announced today that the Ontario Ministry of Labour has granted the TPLWU ... Read More »
October 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Libraries
Information wants to be free, or so the popular bromide has it. Heather Reisman, CEO and "chief booklover" of Indigo Books & Music, has another formula: "All content wants to be digital." According to an ... Read More »
The Toronto-based Luminato arts festival has announced its 2009 lineup, and fanboys the city over will be pleased to know that the theme for the literary programming is "fantasy, horror, and Gothic." They'll likely be ... Read More »
March 18, 2009 | Filed under: Events
About 225 industry people crowded into a Toronto conference room on Thursday for BookNet Canada's annual technology forum. The theme of this year's conference was evolution or revolution, though most of the speakers seemed to ... Read More »
March 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Back in 2001, when the dot-com boom went bust, the U.S. bookstore chain Borders decided to get out of the online bookselling biz and scrapped Borders.com. Now, however, they seem to have thought better of ... Read More »
May 28, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling
The National Post is reporting that a settlement between the Toronto Public Library and its labour union is essentially reversing the savings from the Sunday closure of 16 of the city's libraries, announced earlier this ... Read More »
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