Collection Development Department Collections

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library holds one of the largest Chinese studies collections in North America.

Supports research and teaching both at graduate and undergraduate levels in Earth Sciences, Forestry, Environment, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

The present collections in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto Libraries support the research and teaching in all aspects of Italian language, literature and culture.

Established in 1979, the Korean collection at the University of Toronto’s East Asian Library is the largest and the oldest research collection for Korean studies in Canada.

The present collections in Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto Libraries support the research and teaching in all aspects of the area’s languages, literatures, history and culture.

The Mathematical Sciences Library’s collection has been designed to support research and teaching both at graduate and undergraduate levels in the mathematical and statistical sciences.

The University of Toronto (U of T) Music Library holds the largest and most comprehensive music research collection in Canada.

One of the largest in North America and has long been considered fully able to support advanced research in Near Eastern, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

The Philosophy Department remains Canada’s preeminent and is an international leader in history of philosophy – especially ancient and medieval philosophy – as well as ethics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind.

Libraries’ Slavic and East European collection is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in Canada, and today numbers over 500,000 titles.

The South Asian Studies collection at the University of Toronto Libraries is the largest in Canada

The University of Toronto offers a wide selection of courses on the literatures of Spain and Spanish America: medieval Spanish literature; early modern prose, verse and drama; the modern novel, short story, poetry, drama and film.

The OISE Library's Curriculum Resource Collection contains over 36,000 resources that support K-12 curriculum and instruction in all subject areas in the Ontario curriculum.

The Margo Sandor Children’s Literature Collection (CLC) contains approximately 8,000 works of fiction, from big books and picture books to short story collections, poetry, fairy tales, graphic novels, and novels for young adults.

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Library has the most comprehensive collection of education materials in Canada.