Drone flythrough of Toronto's magnificently renovated reference library

Cory Doctorow 9:00 am Fri Sep 19, 2014

Ab writes, "Toronto Reference Library (TRL) recently completed a multi-year revitalization project (to spotlight the new changes in the Reference Library, we also flew a mini drone around TRL to get a bird's eye view of what's new): the library is celebrating the completion of this project with an event on Friday, Sept. 19."

I love the TRL more than words can say — when I dropped out of school in grade nine, it was by playing hooky there every day for two weeks, browsing the stacks and plundering the old newspaper morgues on microfilm, chasing my interests from one end of the building to another (two weeks later, my school finally told my parents I hadn't shown up and I ended up enrolling in an alternative school instead, and we all lived happily ever after).

About the Toronto Reference Library Revitalization

(Thanks, Ab!)

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