Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto among 50 Most Amazing World's University Libraries

PS. This list of academic libraries is a random selection, the authors/compilers @ bestmastersprograms.org don't mention any benchmarks!!! The following opening para does not show any methodology of ranking:

If there’s anything the editors of BestMastersPrograms.org love more than classes and books, it’s universities and libraries. It’s no surprise, then, that university libraries rank right up there among our favorite places. We’ve researched the most interesting, intriguing, and beautiful college libraries from around the globe to come up with this list of the 50 most amazing university libraries in the world. This is the biggest, most comprehensive list of its kind. If you love university libraries as much as we do, then you’re going to love this!

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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) @

The 50 Most Amazing University Libraries in the World

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The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto houses Canada’s largest collection of historic and publicly accessible books. The library’s comprehensive collection includes religious manuscripts, groundbreaking scientific documents, political writings and exquisite etchings from the 17th century. Some of the most notable pieces in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library include original Shakespeare folios, a proof copy of Darwin’s Origin of Species, Newton’s Principia Mathematica and two copies of the Nuremberg Chronicle that date back to 1493. The collection also features fragments of Egyptian papyrus manuscripts, rare Hebraica and Judaica documents and 25,000 political publications that are part of the Robert S. Kenny Collection.