Radio/Web Report: Take a Tour of Sacred Books in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto)
From the CBC:
Pearce Carefoote is an Anglican priest and Interim Head of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. It’s the largest rare book library in Canada with about 800,000 books. Carefoote shares the stories attached to some of their oldest religious texts and special books with Tapestry producer Graham MacDonald.
Listen to the Radio Segment, View Images of Some of the Books Discussed in the Report
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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