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With 42 libraries at three campuses (St. George, Mississauga, Scarborough), UTL is the largest research library in Canada and the third largest research library in North America. It supports research, teaching, and cultural preservation across the University's decentralised and collegiate structure.
UTL counts among its treasures Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto Archives and Records Management, and various distinguished collections across its campuses and colleges. Open to the public, the Fisher Library is Canada’s largest repository of publicly accessible rare books and manuscripts. Fisher's subject strengths include book history and print culture, history of science and medicine, Canadiana, politics and philosophy, theology, and Hebraica and Judaica. Among Fisher's trove of print, graphic, and audiovisual material are the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), Newton's Principia (1687), Darwin's proof copy of On the Origin of Species (1859), and the papers of Margaret Atwood and Leonard Cohen. The Archives hold the memories of Ursula Franklin, Rodney Bobiwash, Helen Sawyer Hogg, and Henri Nouwen, among others.
UTL hosts many of these historical collections digitally. UTL also maintains a 214,000+ item Internet Archive (IA) collection and hosts an IA scanning centre leveraged by many Canadian libraries. It contributes heavily to the digitisation and web archiving of Canadian Government information.
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