Toronto Downtown
Libraries
University of Toronto
John P. Robarts Research
Library 130 St. George St.
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DOROTHY H. HOOVER LIBRARY
Stack Pass access
required
NO OCAD U direct
borrowing
Spadina Road Public Library
10 Spadina Road
 416-393-7666
Toronto Public Libraries
Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge St.
 non-circulating reference
collection
University of Toronto
Departmental Libraries
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NO OCAD U direct
borrowing
browsing access
available
Ryerson University
Library 350 Victoria
St.
 OCAD U direct
borrowing
East Asian Library
(Cheng Yu Tung)
Robarts Library 130 St
George St, 8th Floor
Department of Art Library
100 St. George St., 6th
Floor
Earth Sciences Library
(Noranda) 5 Bancroft
Avenue, 2nd Floor
Architecture, Landscape
& Design (Shore +
Moffat)
230 College Street, 2nd
Floor
OCAD U
Dorothy H.
Hoover Library
113 McCaul St.
Gerstein Science
Information Centre 7 & 9
King's College Circle
Royal Ontario Museum
Library & Archive 100
Queen's Park
Toronto
Public
Libraries
Sanderson
327 Bathurst St.
 416-393-7653
Lillian H. Smith
239 College St. 416-393-7746
 Osborne Collection of Early Children's
Books
 Merril Collection of Science Fiction,
Speculation & Fantasy
City Hall
Nathan Phillips
Square 100 Queen
St. West
416-393-7650
Direct Borrowing
York
University
Libraries
4700 Keele
St.
OCAD U
100
McCaul St.
OCAD U Students can borrow items from any
Canadian university library (except those in the
University of Toronto system or at Quebec
universities) or from public libraries.
 Toronto Public Library – you must show
proof of residency in the greater Toronto
area (driver’s license, a bill or letter sent to
your address, etc.) to obtain a library card.
Cards can be acquired at any branch
 University Libraries – you must present a
valid OCAD U ID card at the main library
branch to receive a Direct Borrower’s Card.
Use RACER Online Inter-Library Loans to borrow circulating books from most libraries in Canada
(including from the University of Toronto) or from selected U.S. or U.K. libraries
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
Create Inter-Library Loan Account
Request Inter-Library Loan
Other Library Catalogues
UNIVERSITY
 Ryerson University
http://library.ryerson.ca/
(select books & media tab)
 University of Ontario Institute of
Technology
http://www.uoit.ca/sites/library/ (select
“Catalogue” tab)
 University of Toronto
http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/
(select catalogue tab)
 York University
www.library.yorku.ca/cms/catalogue/
PUBLIC
 Toronto Public Libraries
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/advanced/
Daniel Payne, Head, Instructional Services
 (416) 977-6000 ext. 217
 dpayne@ocadu.ca
August 2014
NATIONAL LIBRARIES
 National Library of Canada AMICUS
http://amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca/aaweb/aalog
ine.htm
 Library of Congress
http://catalog.loc.gov/
COMBINED CATALOGUES:
 WordCat www.worldcat.org/
 “world’s largest library catalogue”; search all
Canadian, U.S. libraries at once
 type postal code to find nearest library with
copy of a book
 RACER Inter-Library Loan
 search all Ontario, Canadian or international
library catalogues