Collection Development Department

From our collection
Our award winning collections span the social sciences and humanities and cover a multitude of topics ranging from Medieval family life and Victorian medicine to 1960s pop culture and global politics.

CDD Collections

The University of Toronto (U of T) Music Library holds the largest and most comprehensive music research collection in Canada.
Chinese character
The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library holds one of the largest Chinese studies collections in North America.
The South Asian Studies collection at the University of Toronto Libraries is the largest in Canada
Spanish Languages and Literatures
The University of Toronto offers a wide selection of courses on the literatures of Spain and Spanish America: medieval Spanish literature; early modern prose, verse and drama; the modern novel, short story, poetry, drama and film.
The present collections in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto Libraries support the research and teaching in all aspects of Italian language, literature and culture.