Browsing the Toronto Public Library stacks for inspiration

PS. This post is inspired by Mayank Bhatt posted in Generally About Books

What is the strength of Toronto Public Library, if you wish to visualize 'Toronto City?'

A Boolean search by title (Toronto AND city) shows 374 titles in the Toronoto Public Library

Items that I can...

Borrow and take home  (21)

Only use in a library  (353)

Type

Books  (280)

eBooks & Online Content  (1)

Movies & Videos  (1)

Magazines, Newspapers & Journals  (10)

Microforms, Maps & Computer Disks  (89)

Publication Year

2011-2013  (3)

Last 5 Years  (9)

2000 to present  (49)

1900-1999 (20th century)  (243)

1800-1899 (19th century)  (65)

more...

Subject

Ontario  (261)

Toronto  (223)

Toronto (Ont.)  (49)

Environmental aspects  (39)

Airports  (35)

more...

See also: Browsing the city stacks for inspiration - Writer in Residence - Shawn Micallef torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com (PS. A comment suggests this should be titled: 'Walking the City for Inspiration....' )

Today's interesting post @ Canadian Trends: Lack of foresight, attention Albertans

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Lack of foresight: Dangerous like driving in the Rocky Mountains

It is sometimes quite embarrassing to be an Albertan. I've just come across anarticle that is just sadly funny. We can call this funny because it's been filed under "entertainment", so we have the all clear! continue reading

Rogers removes digital magazines from Canadian libraries

The Globe and Mail-by Steve Ladurantaye-Nov 5, 2013

Visitors to Canadian libraries will no longer have access to free digital magazines from Canada's largest publisher. 

Magazines Canada, an industry trade group, advisedCanadian publishers to walk away from an agreement with the company whose software makes the publications available because of delivery problems. Rogers Media complied, and its magazines are no longer available on the popular Zinio app.

On the same shelf:

• Rogers to Deliver First Mobile Wallet Broadcaster
• The ALA Speaks Out on the Issue of Digital Content Lending

New deductions for 2013 income tax return!!!

New deductions for 2013 income tax return!! Not much different than Gov’s in any other place. by Robertwmh (The Caretaker.)

Bottomline: (Before reading any further, I need to mention that it's not about Canadians, it's about: European MPs at work in Brussels - Friendship Forum)
This deduction option/column is not yet for Canadians, eh? We have to wait.

Extract:

• Don't forget, on this year's income tax return, to list the names of Members of Parliament and Senators as your “dependents”.
  EARN WHILE YOU SLEEP.... MP’s at work: not bad for $10,000/month. Click here for all visual images
• Others make only $8,000/month.
• A little bit of reading on the side at $11,000 month.
• Writing your mail at the expense of the tax payer…
• Dammit, this job is so hard!   I must ask for a   raise.
• I’m not sleeping, I’m thinking about retirement and my cost of living indexed pension.
• SO AM I.   I ONLY HAVE TO SNOOZE HERE FOR SIX YEARS TO GET THE PENSION.
• Is it time for lunch yet in our taxpayer subsidized restaurant?

Pass this on… WE  UNDERSTAND WHY THIS JOB IS SO SOUGHT AFTER !!
IT IS IDEAL TO CATCH UP ON MISSED SLEEP AFTER  EXHAUSTING TAXPAYER FUNDED TRAVELS WHILE WAITING  SERENELY FOR PROSPEROUS RETIREMENT OR FOR A SECURE REWARD IN CASE OF A LOST RE-ELECTION…
AFTER THOUGHT:
THE ABOVE  ARE ACTUALLY AMONG THE MOST DILIGENT  MP’s,
BECAUSE THEY  ACTUALLY SHOWED UP IN  PARLIAMENT!

Counting & Discounting in Census' demography: Difference Between India and Canada

Counting & Discounting: Census and Identity in India and Canada by Mohammed Ayub Khan Download/Browse @ academia.edu 

On the same shelf (from the bibliography)

• The Politics of Numbers (Population of the United States in the 1980s : a Census Monograph Series)  William Alonso
• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism  Benedict Anderson
• Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Sociology for a New Century Series)  Stephen E. Cornell
• The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture  Daniel Francis
• The Gujarat Genocide: A Case Study in Fundamentalist Cleansing  Garda Ghista
• Confronting Saffron Demography Religion, Fertility, and Women's Status in India  Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery
• Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses (New Perspectives on Anthropological and Social Demography)  David I. Kertzer
• Contested Ethnic Identity (Nationalisms Across the Globe) Chris Kostov
• Austrian Immigration to Canada: Selected Essays 
  Frank Szabo

Vancouver Public Library offers amnesty for overdue books, but compassion for overdue books is not so common everywhere, Daily Buzz

• Booking bookworms: Man arrested for overdue library book, By Lindsay Jolivet | Daily Buzz, Nov. 4, 2013 -- Sticking his nose behind books has landed a Texas man behind bars after he failed to return an overdue text for three years.

  In the same news, Daily Buzz reports: 
  
  
• Vancouver Public Library offers amnesty for overdue books: Don't be ashamed. Don't be afraid. VPL will welcome you back. Jordan Yerman, Posted: Oct 11th, 2013, more details are  here vancouverobserver.com
• See also: Copperas Cove, Texas Arrests People for Overdue Library Books (Video) Oct 30, 2013

• GED® Test Prep resources @ Farrell Ink's blog -- including: Sample GED Test questions; Online practice tests; Helpful Links.

Harper Government to introduce new model of “inviting” immigrants from 2015

PS. image courtesy CIC,  NorthumberlandView.ca and South Asian Generation Next,  31 October 2013, P-6.

Economic immigration is slated to increase to 63 per cent in 2014. The remaining 37 per cent will consist of family class immigrants, refugees and others admitted under humanitarian programs.

 

Text version: Economic immigration image

On the same shelf:

• News Release — Planning for Success, Putting Canada First  www.cic.gc.ca
• Fed Generosity for Canadian Immigrants! Target figure, 265000 immigrants for 2014, by Minnie Mahendru - October 30, 2013  
• Canada aims to open doors to 265000 immigrants in 2014, Toronto Sun ‎- 5

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!

Despite the randomness, some libraries takes this on its face value (e.g., Library Blog: The Gothic Column | University of Connecticut; The Library in the News 2013 | Cornell University Library;Our RISD — A World-Class Library;2013 national competition project | Library Redesign #192;Keeppy The Most Amazing And Unusual Buildings Structures)

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

The 50 Most Amazing University Libraries in the World

Extract:

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.

20 Things Worth Knowing About... Rob Ford's popularity

info courtesy:   Stephen Abram

From New York magazine, just in case you don't know that we have our share of Yahoos in Toronto. Rob Ford's popularity poll are reported today to have increased! By Dan Amira