Pop-Up Library (in the Library !) 
featuring Canada Comics Open Library, Inforum Library, iJournal, Hart House Library, & Media Commons
April 16th, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM, 
Bissell Building 4th Floor, Inforum Library ​
also featuring Breakfast! Steel-cut oats buffet from Pegasus Catering
(Breakfast starting @ 9:30 AM)
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Canada Comics Open Library (CCOL) is a registered non-profit organization founded by Alumni of the UofT Faculty of Information. Our aim is to provide an inclusive, educational and recreational public space for comics and graphic novels while showcasing the work of Canadian comic artists and supporting comics communities. We want to help bridge a gap in the current cultural landscape with regards to comics accessibility. By developing meaningful partnerships with various Canadian artists and comics-related communities in Canada, and developing a diverse collection, we hope to promote the comic medium, creators, and accessibility & recognition of the Canadian comics scene. CCOL also works to be a part of increasing representation of BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and marginalized comics creators, stories, and art. 

The Inforum is the library and learning commons of the Faculty of Information.  We bring users, resources, services, technology, and expert staff together in one physical location, as well as many virtual spaces.  Known as the Faculty's community hub, the space is used for social, scholarly, and professional events and pursuits. No other information school in Canada has anything like it!  We are also part of the 40+ branch University of Toronto Library (UTL) system, the 6th highest-ranked academic library in North America, and the largest academic library in Canada.  
The Inforum Library has an excellent range of items on Community & Communities of Practice in the all of the areas of study and professions that students pursue at the Faculty of Information.
​Check out a list of these highlights which will be available at the Pop-Up Library Inforum Exhibit !

The iJournal is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal run by graduate students at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. Our aim is to publish exemplary student research on the divergent topics of information studies, thereby fostering collective identity and interdisciplinary understanding among information students, faculty, and practitioners.

​The Hart House Library is an organic space, a living institution which grows and adapts to the ever-changing needs of our dedicated multi-demographic patrons. Under the stewardship of the Literary and Library Committee, the library seeks to be all-inclusive by offering a variety of opportunities to student groups and volunteers to participate in building a stronger literary community at Hart House and maintaining a relevant and special collection of literature to reflect the library’s evolving interests. Hart House library is a reading and browsing library, whose unique contribution to the university experience and to Canada’s literacy culture has been attested by generations of students, including many of Canada’s promising writers and leaders. The library’s physical character is consistent with its cultural and historical character. This requires that, first, the library be maintained as readers space, not a study space, and second, that a conservation-oriented approach be taken to physical change.

UofT's Media Commons, located on the 3rd floor of Robarts Library, offers a lending collection of over 20,000 audio-visual titles of film and television; audio-visual viewing stations including screening rooms and a theatre; microfilm and microfiche; and an audio visual archive. The Media Commons Pop-Up Library Exhibit will host a video room (Inforum 4th Floor, BL417) featuring highlights from their VHS - UofT produced videos featuring students, librarians, and faculty discussing UofT life, academics, & work-prospects circa 1977.