Service Update
Environment & Climate Change Canada has issued a Heat Warning. A significant number of cool spaces are closed due to COVID 19 restrictions. During a heat warning, the City will open Emergency Cooling Centres.
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Our Reopening Plan
We’re gradually resuming more services in our branches – with your safety as our top priority.
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Kids
Join the TD Summer Reading Club
Online activities including author talks, trivia, jokes, story writing, comics and more.
Booklist
Food as Medicine
Indigenous Advisory Council member Christine recommends three cookbooks by Indigenous authors.
Program
Michelle Good: Five Little Indians
Good discusses her book, a chronicle of five residential school survivors. August 17, 7pm.
Kids
OverDrive Kids
A great selection of kids' ebooks, audiobooks and readalongs to download or read online.
Teens
Author Talk with Joel Sutherland
Joel Sutherland will share what it's like to be the author of some of Canada's spookiest stories. Aug 10, 4pm.
Booklist
Science in Snippets
Fun and fast science facts. From historical "cures" for common ailments, to how soap knows what's dirt and what's not.
Podcast
Writers Off the Page: Luisa Valenzuela
Luisa Valenzuela reads a politically charged story about two cars in 1979.
Kids
Dial-a-Story
Listen to fables, fairy tales and other great stories by phone. Available in 16 languages.
Teens
The List: Great Reads for Youth
100 fantastic books to make you laugh, cry, reflect, debate, celebrate and grow.
Online Services
38 Ways to Use the Library from Home
Find things to read, watch, listen to, learn and do, free with your library card.
Books
TPL Reading Challenge
12 Recommended Reads
TPL Innovation Council takes our Reading Challenge! Get their picks for the main challenge categories.
Featured
A Message from the City Librarian
The library’s commitment to ending structural racism and building a more equitable society.
COVID-19 Library FAQ
Answers to your questions about impacts to library service, including information about checkouts and holds.
Digital Library Card
No library card? No problem!
Access our largest collection of ebooks and audiobooks with code TPL2020
Summer Services for Newcomers
Language support, health and wellness, and job skills programs with seven local Library Settlement Partnerships (LSP) agencies.
Live & online programs
Kids
Nibi's Water Song with Sunshine Tenasco
In this Summer Wonder Author Talk, clean water activist Sunshine Tenasco reads her children's book and discusses the true events that inspired the story.
Appel Salon
Well-Read Black Girl
A discussion on the importance of representation in literature, with writers Glory Edim, Jamia Wilson and Renée Watson, moderated by Zalika Reid-Benta. Recorded on September 25, 2019.
On Civil Society
Eric Klinenberg: Palaces for the People
A conversation on the importance of social infrastructure with Zahra Ebrahim and Eric Klinenberg. Recorded on September 11, 2019.
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