Archive for category: TPL

Toronto Public Library (and TPLFans)

Toronto Public Library bans an author    (2015.02.25)

The Toronto Public Library banned three books by an author because, its female-run management decided, the author was “fringe” and “intensely misogynistic.” Enjoy your Freedom to Read Week

Toronto designers: The most important design book of the decade is now easy to get your hands on    (2013.01.17)

You can now borrow Chasing the Perfect from the library, thanks to me

Library copy of ‘Gay Times’ with half the nude bodies rubber-stamped    (2011.06.21)

An issue of Gay Times I borrowed from the library has rubber-stamp markings plunked onto many pages showing bare-chested or nearly-nude guys

TPLFans    (2009.03.05)

A new pop-up blog for fans of the Toronto Public Library

This just in: ‘Check Out’ is not a word in Urdu    (2005.05.22)

How not to use RFIDs for a library checkout terminal that claims to work in English, Chinese, French, Tamil, and Urdu