The Robarts Library

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Official Website: http://main.library.utoronto.ca/
Date Updated: May 5, 2006
 Address: 130 Saint George ST
Phone: (416) 978-8450

DescriptionRobarts Library is the main humanities and social sciences library of the University of Toronto. It is currently the largest book repository in the world (although this may change in the near future as the University of Chicago is considering expanding its own Joseph Regenstein Library ). Robarts Library is the heart of the University of Toronto library system, which is the third largest library system in North America, after that of Harvard and Yale. The library is named after former Ontario Premier John Robarts. It occupies an entire block at the northwest corner of St. George Street and Harbord Street.
Robarts Library is home to the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library, which contains a priceless collection of manuscripts and first editions.

It is also the home of Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, which holds a collections of over 380,000 volumes of materials in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and of the Old English Dictionary Project.

In addition to a rich collection of texts, "Robarts," as University of Toronto students commonly refer to it, contains several other useful services for University of Toronto students. 24-hour quiet reading rooms are open when the university is in session. As well, the Scotiabank Information Commons, a large bank of computers connected to the internet on the first floor, allow all University of Toronto students access to computers, printers, scanners, and audiovisual equipment.

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Robarts was originally designed to look like a peacock. if you look at it from some obscure angles it kind of does. When going into robarts, remember that this is a STUDENT institution and dont expect to get much help unless you are either a student or an academic. Massive volumes of information are being held here.

And no, its not sinking from the weight of the books. That is just a rumour.

I recommend this place.