Using the Library

Running into problem during your research process?

Our Online Research Consultations are available for researchers who need assistance working through issues they are experiencing while searching for appropriate sources for their projects and assignments.

A librarian can help you use strategies to become a more effective researcher by:

• Reviewing the key concepts you have identified from your research question and the alternative key terms you have brainstormed
• Revising your search string to make your results more precise
• Evaluating your search strategy to ensure you have selected appropriate databases for your topic
• Adapting your search strategy to include database-specific techniques

Use the Book a Research Consultation form and select ONLINE Research Consultation for Students book an appointment with a librarian. Please provide the details of the assignment or project you need assistance with upon booking.

If you are seeking assistance for a New College course, please select the librarian based on their subject areas as indicated in brackets beside their names. If you are not enrolled in a New College course, you may meet with any librarian.

Need help with citations and references?

Our Online Citation Help is available for researchers who are looking to collect, manage, and organize their sources and create properly formatted citations and references.

A librarian can help you develop skills to collect and manage the sources you have located by:

• Ensuring you are creating properly formatted citations and references in different styles
• Instructing you to use Zotero, a free, open course citation management tool effectively

Visit the Book a Research Consultation form and select ONLINE Help with Citations or Zotero to book an appointment with a librarian.

Group Study Room bookings

The DG Ivey Library has two study rooms available to be booked.

• Group study room bookings are restricted to U of T students, staff, and faculty with a valid UTORid
• Groups of two (2) or more
• Rooms can be booked for a maximum of 3 hours a day.
• Rooms can be booked up to 2 weeks in advance.
• Each study room has a large TV and connectors available for loan that allow you to project onto the TV. Ask the circulation desk staff for help connecting to the TV. 

Booking a room:

1. Visit the study room bookings page to book a study room.  
2. Visit the circulation desk to collect the key to your room. You will need to leave two (2) TCards with the circulation desk staff to collect the key. 
3. Return the key to circulation desk staff at the end of your booking time to collect your TCards. 

Code of Conduct:

• Your booking will be cancelled if you are 15 minutes late.
• Any additional bookings exceeding 3 hours per day will be cancelled.
• Rooms are for studying and academic group work.
• Commercial activities are not permitted.
• Please dispose of all garbage and recyclables when you leave the room

Disclaimer: The DG Ivey Library is not responsible for loss or damage of items left unattended in the room.

The Ivey Library has the following items for loan: 

• Mac Laptops 
• Dell Laptops 
• USB-C, MagSafe, and universal chargers for laptops 
• Micro-USB, USB-C, and Apple Lightning chargers for phones and tablets 
• Headphones 

• Scientific Calculators authorized for use in MAT113, MAT135, and MAT 136 
• Microphones for podcasting and speech-to-text applications 

The Library has full wireless access for student laptops and houses twenty workstations providing access to the Internet, e-mail and electronic library resources. 

The DG Ivey Library has two of the computer labs exclusively for the use of New College Students enrolled in the Faculty of Arts & Science. These computers are located:

• New College Student Computer Facility, back area of the upper level
• New College Student Computer Lab, lower level of the library

Information Commons area features computers available for all University students, faculty and staff.

Our library offers black and white printing as well as colour printing for all students, faculty and staff.

How to pay for printing?

Students can print using their TCard+ accounts. Be sure to load funds onto your account before you print. We are not responsible for printing material if patrons do not have funds on their accounts.

Load funds online through the TCard+ website or in person at a Guest Card & Cash Loading station at Robarts Library or the Gerstein Science Information Centre.

Printing for New College Students

New College Students enrolled in the Faculty of Arts & Science have access to discounted printing subsidized through their student fees.

Printing costs:

• $0.03 cent black and white printing
• $0.20 cent colour printing

New College Students can use:

• New College Student Computer Facility (back area on the upper level of the library)
• Lower Level New College Student Computer Lab

Printing for University of Toronto Students, Faculty and Staff

University of Toronto Students, Faculty and Staff can print using the Information Commons (front computer area on the upper level of the library).

Printing costs:

• $0.15 black and white printing
• $1.00 cent colour printing

Scanning at the library is free and available to everyone! You can scan to USB or to email.

Scanning & copyright policy

It is illegal to scan any images or text that are not your personal intellectual property unless you have the express written consent of the owner of that property. It is the responsibility of the person scanning the images or text to obtain any required permissions.

See Copyright resources and links for more information.