Got a new startup idea, but
don't know your market?
📊Market Research for Startups
✅Get familiar w. tools/databases to help w. market sizing, business plans & more
✅Discover more library services for UofT entrepreneurs
🗓️May 14
💻Zoom
For current #UofT students/staff/faculty
🔗 uoft.me/e-shipworkshop
Black and white archival photo of Robarts Library in the 1970s. A group of women librarians have a tour and are looking at a directory map of with a floor plan of Robarts library and a sign that says “Books must be charged out at…floor”
Unquiet Library Episode 5 out now! “The Pink Collar” looks at the gendered history of Robarts Library.
Stories of resistance, resilience, and reform, told through oral history.
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts or on Acast shows.acast.com/the-unquiet-...
@uoftlibraries.bsky.social
Photo of a colorful children’s play area in Robarts Library, including child size table and stools and toy storage furniture.
🎙️ New episode is live: From Fort Book to the Heart of Campus.
This episode traces how librarians, staff and advocates pushed for accessibility, better service, and spaces where students could feel safe, supported and at home.
🎧 shows.acast.com/the-unquiet-...
@uoftlibraries.bsky.social
Interested in communicating your STEM research in a creative & visual way? Join us at one of our three new upcoming Science Communication workshops on biomedical illustration, zines-making, & graphic medicine! 🖼️✂️🖍️🥼🧬🧪
All sessions open to current #UofT students!
ℹ️ Sign up:
uoft.me/zine-showcase
Black and white photo of the Robarts Library reference room card catalog in the 1970s.
Before search engines, there were card catalogues, and the librarians who guarded them.
Episode 3 of The Unquiet Library looks back at this iconic space and these brilliant and formidable human search engines.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
@uoftlibraries.bsky.social
Curious what it’s like to study at #UofT St. George? 🤔
Take a quick tour of five must-see spots – historic buildings, student hubs, study spaces, & athletic facilities that make the U of T student experience unique. 📌
Explore: uoft.me/explore
Misinformation spreads fast—but where’s the line between fact and opinion?
In our season finale, @jendlake.bsky.social, Colin Furness & experts from @uoftlibraries.bsky.social unpack misinformation & how political shifts shape the future of health research.
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
Photo of the triangular concrete Robarts Library with cherry blossoms in the foreground.
Brutalism is back, and in Episode 2, we explore how Robarts went from “Toronto’s ugliest building” to a beloved icon (especially in cherry blossom season 🌸).
Has the world finally caught up to Robarts?
🎧 Episode 2 is out now!
#UofT #RobartsLibrary #Brutalism #TorontoArchitecture #Toronto
Brutal.
I've got a few bits in these podcasts defending Canada's greatest building.
Morning!🌞Time for some Overdue Advice from your friendly U of T library staff 👋
Today we're sharing tips on finding peer-reviewed articles to support your research. ✍
Keep your eyes peeled for more Overdue Advice to make your research projects pop 💥 every Tuesday ✅
Puppy trying to get over a wall of magazines and books
Learn why Robarts Library is so hard to navigate. Episode 1 is out now: “Toronto’s Ugliest Building?”.
🎧Listen now: shows.acast.com/the-unquiet-...
#UofT #TorontoPodcast #AcademicLibraries #Brutalism #TorontoArchitecture #Libraries
Want to start a new business? Be sure to attend tomorrow’s Industry Research workshop first! 📊
‼️NEW‼️
🧊Intro to 3D Design w. Fusion 360
Makers who want to create customized physical objects will learn:
✅ plan a project
✅ master parametric 3D modelling basics
✅ personalize designs w. industry-relevant tools
🗓️Mar 17
📍Gerstein Library
For U of T students/staff/faculty
uoft.me/gerstein3dtr...
Iconic. Polarizing. Unforgettable.
Robarts Library has been called many things over the past 50 years. The Unquiet Library podcast explores the voices, tensions, and histories that shaped it.
The first episodes are now streaming. 🎧
open.spotify.com/show/0AjhamY...
Left: A c.1469 portrait of the 'Spider King', Louis XI (Painting by Jacob de Litemont). Right: A 1463 letter patent of Louis XI; the Massey fragment likely originated as a document similar to this one
Signed, sealed, rediscovered: #UofT researchers decode 15th-century missive from French monarch 📜 uoft.me/cbK
Years in the making, this discovery provides a rare glimpse into the bureaucratic machinery that helped define the rule of a powerful French monarch.
Go deeper into this web of discovery 🕷️ 👑
library.utoronto.ca/news/hidden-...
Multispectral imaging technology at @fisherlibrary.bsky.social, in collaboration with @utm.utoronto.ca Old Books New Science Lab & #UofT medieval scholars @artsci.utoronto.ca, made the invisible visible again — allowing researchers to identify the fragment &decode how it was folded, sealed & used
His nickname "The Spider King" reflected his political style - the “Spider King,” who ruled from the centre of a carefully woven web of power...
Multi spectral imagining of the letetr fragment
image of the fragment of paper
Deep within #UofT’s rare book collections, even the humblest materials can hold extraordinary stories.
A scrap of 📜 from the Robertson Davies Library @masseycollege.bsky.social Library has been identified as part of a 15th-century letter from the court of King Louis XI of France
Fresh snowfall on the University of Toronto, St. George campus
Today, the Government of Ontario announced changes to funding across the postsecondary sector, including a $6.4 billion investment.
This funding will help sustain access to high-quality academic programs & support students in preparing for the future. uoft.me/funding-announcement
Starting something new? Level up your company research & competitive analysis skills!
Company & Competitor Research
🗓️Feb 19, 12-1
💻Zoom
For current #UofT students/staff/faculty of all disciplines
🔗 uoft.me/e-shipworkshop
@uoftlibraries.bsky.social
@uoftcfe.bsky.social
@entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca
Join the Map & Data Library online workshop:
✨ Using MAXQDA & AI for Qualitative Data Analysis (Part 3)
🗓️ Feb 26 | 2–3 pm
We’ll cover AI in the research process, data privacy & ethics, and a live demo.
Some familiarity helpful, not required.
Register here🔗: mdl.library.utoronto.ca/mdl-blog/usi...
image of a robot hand touching a human hand showing a connection to human and AI interaction.
🤖📚 AI is changing qualitative research.
From transcription to analysis, new tools are opening up possibilities (and raising questions).
Curious how it works in practice? 👇
⚠️ Weather Update: Due to heavy snowfall and the impacts on public transit, the #UofT St. George campus is closed until 12:00 p.m. (noon) on Monday, January 26, 2026. A status update will be posted online today by 10:00 a.m. at utoronto.ca/campus-status
An illustrated image advertising a drop-in crafting event with a table covered in brightly coloured bracelets, yarn, scissors, buttons, a scarf and other crafting materials.
Start the new year off by learning a new hobby! 🧶
Join us @ Engineering and Computer Science Library (ECSL)’s informal crafting drop-in. 🧵
Supplies will be provided & staff will be there to help. 🤝
Find us Jan 27, noon-2pm, 2nd floor, Sandford Fleming Building, 10 King’s College Rd, room 2402 🧐
Dream of designing in 3D? Learn 3D design basics - perfect for makers who want to design a digital file for creating customized physical objects!
Intro to 3D Design w.Tinkercad
🗓️ Jan 30, 12-1:30
📍Gerstein Library
For current #UofT students/faculty/staff
👉 uoft.me/gerstein3dtraining
Have an unhealthy relationship with your data?😩📱
DATA DETOX WEEK arrives Jan 26-30!
Discover how digital tech influences our behaviour & start taking back control of your digital privacy, security, & wellbeing
- drop in to our week-long expo + join online workshops
Sign up: uoft.me/data-detox-2026
Interested in growing native plants? Learn to properly prep seeds that need to be stored in the cold before they can grow in the spring!
🌱Seed Sitting Workshop
🗓️Jan 20 | 12-1pm
📍Gerstein Library
For current #UofT students/staff/faculty
🔗 uoft.me/seed-sitting...
cc @uoftlibraries.bsky.social
As part of Data Privacy Day, Robarts Library (UofT Libraries) is hosting a book display on privacy in the digital age until Jan. 30 . Stop by and take a look or borrow one today!
More details: security.utoronto.ca/news/data-privacy-day-20...
#DPD2026
🎬 Pop-Up Cinematheque returns for Season 2 — cinema on film, the way it was meant to be experienced. 🍿
More 16mm & 35mm screenings are coming up this winter, with scholar-led introductions.
Free to attend — registration required.
👉 See what’s coming up and reserve a spot:
🔗 go.utlib.ca/popup2
