Collections
iSchool faculty, staff and students can:
- Find Inforum items in the University of Toronto Library (UTL) catalogue
- Browse our New Titles List to discover newly received Inforum books, journals, and other material
- Request access to new items that are listed as In cataloguing in the UTL catalogue.
- Check out our New Book Display near the Information Desk, and download bibliographies from our current and past themed displays
- Recommend new titles to add to the Inforum collections!
Subject scope:
We purchase and subscribe to works in electronic and print formats in these areas:
- Archives and records management
- Critical information studies
- Cultural heritage preservation
- Digital preservation
- Information systems and design
- Knowledge management
- Library and information science
- Museum studies
- Publishing and book history
- Privacy and surveillance
- Research methods and design
Electronic collections:
- Accessible through the University of Toronto Libraries catalogue or e-resources list.
- Off-campus access via UTORid login
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E-collections include:
- Article databases
- Full-text journals
- E-books
- E-newspapers
- Online encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, and handbooks
- New titles are regularly added
Print collections:
- Housed on the 4th & 5th floors of the Inforum
- Most items may be borrowed
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Our print collections are:
- Course reserves -- request at the Information Desk
- Periodicals -- 4th and 5th floors
- General collection -- 5th floor stacks
- Reference collection -- 4th floor
- Subject Analysis Systems (SAS) collection -- 5th floor, behind general collection
- Juvenile collection -- 5th floor, behind general collection
- Special collection -- request at the Information Desk
Book displays
The Inforum mounts thematic book displays, many with accompanying annotated bibliographies, compiled by our team of Inforum Information Desk student assistants.
Download the bibliographies from current and past displays.
For collections-related inquiries, contact elisa [dot] sze
utoronto [dot] ca (Elisa Sze), Collections Coordinator.
New titles
Now displaying acquisitions for June 2013
Number of results: 36
| ALA glossary of library and information science , edited by Michael Levine-Clark and Toni M. Carter. (Chicago, Ill. : American Library Association, c2013.) | |
| Applied ethnography : Guidelines for field research , Pertti Pelto. (Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., 2013.) | |
| Attention and value : Keys to understanding museum visitors., ([S.l.] : Left Coast Press, 2013) | |
| Bad data handbook , Q. Ethan McCallum. (Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, 2012.) | |
| Big data : A revolution that will transform how we live, work, and think , Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier. (Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.) | |
| Bound to read : Compilations, collections, and the making of Renaissance literature , Jeffrey Todd Knight. (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.) | |
| Children, childhood and cultural heritage , edited by Kate Darian-Smith and Carla Pascoe. (New York : Routledge, 2013) | |
| Collaboration in libraries and learning environments , edited by Maxine Melling and Margaret Weaver. (London : Facet, 2013.) | |
| Common ground at the nexus of information literacy and scholarly communication , edited by Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Merinda Kaye Hensley. (Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2013.) | |
| Conservation of Cultural Heritage : Key Principles and Approaches , Hanna M. Szczepanowska. (London : Routledge, 2013, c2013) | |
| Coteaching reading comprehension strategies in elementary school : Maximizing your impact , Judi Moreillon. (Chicago : American Library Association, 2013.) | |
| Curating empire : Museums and the British imperial experience , edited by Sarah Longair and John McAleer. (New York : Manchester University Press, 2012.) | |
| Digital curation bibliography : Preservation and stewardship of scholarly works , Charles W. Bailey. (Houston, TX : Digital Scholarship, 2012.) | |
| Driving loyalty Turning every customer and employee into a raving fan for your brand , Kirk Kazanjian. (New York : Crown Business, c2013.) | |
| Engaging in narrative inquiry , D. Jean Clandinin. (Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2013]) | |
| Essentials of qualitative interviewing , Karin Olson. (Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2011.) | |
| Everyday HR : A human resources handbook for academic library staff , Gail Munde. (Chicago : Neal-Schuman, 2013.) | |
| Fiction as research practice : Short stories, novellas, and novels , Patricia Leavy. (Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, Inc., c2013.) | |
| Indigenous pathways into social research : Voices of a new generation , Donna M. Mertens, Fiona Cram, Bagele Chilisa, editors. (Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2013.) | |
| The Information society : A study of continuity and change , John Feather. (London : Facet Publishing, 2013.) | |
| Library services to youth with autism spectrum disorders , Lesley S.J. Farmer. (Chicago : ALA Editions, 2013.) | |
| Managing electronic records : Methods, best practices, and technologies , Robert F. Smallwood. ( ) | |
| Museum communication and social media : The connected museum , edited by Kirsten Drotner and Kim Christian Schrøder. (New York : Routledge, 2013.) | |
| Open access and digital libraries : Social science libraries in action = Acceso abierto y bibliotecas digitales : las bibliotecas de ciencias sociales en acción , edited by Lynne M. Rudasill and Maria Elena Dorta-Duque. ( ) | |
| Organization theory & design , Richard L. Daft. (Mason, OH : South-Western Cengage Learning, c2013.) | |
| Practical digital preservation : A how-to guide for organizations of any size , Adrian Brown. (London : Facet Pub., 2013.) | |
| Preserving archives , Helen Forde and Jonathan Rhys-Lewis. (London : Facet Publishing, 2013.) | |
| Records and information management , Patricia C. Franks. (Chicago : Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2013.) | |
| The Rockwell heist , Bruce Rubenstein. (Saint Paul : Borealis Books, 2013.) | |
| Time and project management strategies for librarians , edited by Carol Smallwood, Jason Kuhl, Lisa Fraser. (Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.) | |
| Two excercises! : Flood and tornado., ( ) | |
| Two exercises! : Flood and tornado., ( ) | |
| Two exercises! : Flood and tornado., ( ) | |
| Viral hate : Containing its spread on the Internet , Abraham H. Foxman and Christopher Wolf. (New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]) | |
| A year of inquiry : A collection for elementary educators , edited by Linda Froschauer. (Arlington, Va. : NSTA Press, c2012.) | |
| Zubulake's e-Discovery : The untold story of my quest for justice , Laura A. Zubulake. (North Charleston, SC : CreateSpace, c2012.) |