As demand for library services grows, we continue to work with the Toronto Public Library Foundation, the City of Toronto, and community partners to explore new opportunities while containing costs and maintaining quality. Staff are equipped with the technology, skills and training to support users, to innovate and evolve services and deliver these services to Torontonians.
Key Achievements
In 2015, we:
- Expanded the Sun Life Financial Museum + Arts Pass program with the addition of the Aga Khan Museum, allowing more families across this city to experience Toronto's rich cultural landscape.
- Launched the new Toronto Poetry Map in collaboration with Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke. The poetry map captures the city in words by providing links on a map of Toronto to excerpts of poems associated with specific locations.
- Shared 100 reasons to check out TPL in a customer engagement campaign and kicked off the #TPL100 month-long campaign by marching to City Hall from Toronto Reference Library.
- Opened our 100th branch, Scaborough Civic Centre, the library's 100th branch, with much fanfare! It went on to win the Institutional-Commercial Wood Design Award from the Ontario Wood Works.
- Received the 2015 Ontario Library Association (OLA) Library Building Award for Mount Dennis branch, for library architectural design and transformation.
- Launched an advocacy campaign for high book prices charged by multinational publishers, along with public libraries and associations across the country.
- Kicked off Ontario Public Library week at the Scarborough Civic Centre branch. Library supporters from across Ontario kicked off a week of province-wide events recognizing the unique qualities of Ontario's libraries.
- Celebrated Library Settlement Partnerships Week with our valued settlement agencies who provide information, referrals and group activities to newcomers.