Toronto Star Newspaper Room

The Toronto Star Newspaper Centre at the Toronto Reference Library has over 120 current newspapers, in print and microfilm, from Canada and around the globe. These include:

• All major Toronto papers
• Current issues of Toronto papers in languages other than English or French
• Current copies of many regional Ontario papers and selected major out of province papers
• Current issues of selected international newspapers from around the globe, published in English, French and many other languages A few major International papers such as the [London] Times and New York Times are retained on microfilm
• A rare collection of historical microfilm of early Toronto broadsheets such as the Colonial Advocate, and some local 20th century tabloid press publications such as Hush

The original Newspaper Room was renovated with funding from The Toronto Star. It reopened November 2001 as the Toronto Star Newspaper Centre, a modern, expansive space in the lower level of the Toronto Reference Library. Encircling the room are floor to ceiling glass panels etched with historic front pages from The Toronto Star.

The space has six digital microfilm workstations for a collection of 55,000 microfilm reels of old newspapers. Researchers can view newspaper microfilm on large format monitors, and may either print pages, or save pages to a flash drive. Custom designed V-shaped glass newspaper reading tables cradle open newspapers for comfortable reading. Nine computer workstations provide access to online newspaper databases.