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Royal Ontario Museum Libraries
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100 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 2C6
Phone: 416-586-5595
Fax: 586-5519
Borrowing privileges

The ROM libraries are open to the general public each weekday. There is no admission charge. See library hours.

These are reference libraries with closed stacks. All material will be retrieved upon request. Material charged out on permanent loan to ROM departments can be retrieved with 24 hour notice. U of T and Ryerson faculty and Faculty of Information graduate students have borrowing privileges.

Access to the Main Library and Sackler Reading Room is via the ROM main entrance on Bloor Street - General Admissions. Ask at the Admissions Desk for a free tag and directions to the Main Library, located on the 1st Floor at the end of the Chinese Architecture Gallery.

Access to the H H Mu Far Eastern Library is via the Staff Entrance, where all visitors must sign in and be escorted to the Library on the 6th floor. Public hours for this Library are: Monday 12 noon to 4:30 P.M., Tuesday 12 noon to 4:30 P.M., Wednesday to Friday 12 noon to 4:30 P.M.

Types of restricted materials

Rare books, archival records.

Hours librarian available

Monday-Friday 12:00pm - 4:30pm
NOTE: Open till 5:30pm on Tuesdays only.

Is photocopying available? Cost?

Yes, 15¢ per page for photocopying; 25¢ for oversize (11x17); $1.25 for colour; 20 cents per page for computer printing; $1.00 for colour printing.

Size and scope of collection

Main Library: Anthropology, archaeology, botany, costume, Canadiana, entomology, geology, herpetology, ichthyology, invertebrate zoology, mammalogy, mineralogy, museology, paleontology, textiles, and the decorative arts.H H Mu Far Eastern Library: Fine and decorative arts of Asia, Islamic art and culture, Asian archaeology, and Egyptology.

Collections listed in the library catalogue

All monographs in the Main collection and the Far Eastern Library are in the University of Toronto library catalogue except for some older non-Romanized titles in FEL. All current serials are catalogued with complete holdings listed. Some non-current serials still require cataloguing. [connect to UofT Library catalogue].

Library catalogue codes

ROMU Main, ROMS Main, ROMC Main, ROMF Far Eastern