File contains videos of the Library Christmas parties from 2001-2002.

File contains the borrower services files from 2005 onwards.

File contains the Collection Services files from 2001 to 2002.

Item is the Facilities and Infrastructure Committee's Terms of Reference draft.

Item is the Image Collection Implementation Committee's Terms of Reference.

Item contains the Space Planning Committee's Terms of Reference and a listing of its members.

Item contains the Technology Planning Group's meeting minutes and a listing of its members.

File contains the Communications Working Group's ongoing projects, meeting minutes, a communications plan draft, and a listing of its members.

File contains the library committee member lists from 2003 onwards.

Files contain Terms of Reference, Members Lists and Working Papers.

File contains digital photographs, correspondence and supporting documentation. A partial finding aid is available.

File contains the library space planning files from 2005 to 2010. It includes: correspondence, floor plans, library space surveys, survey results, agendas, and relocations.

Photographs taken by Library staff member Charlotte Broome.

Series contains photocopied and original architectural drawings/floor plans/elevations/furniture layouts of the Library Resource Centre aka the Mordell Centre

File contains various organization charts for Ryerson University library & archives staff and faculty.

Item is an Audio-Visual Resource Catalogue produced by the Audio-Visual Resource Centre for 1969-1970.

Item is an audio-visual resource catalogue produced by the Audio-Visual Resource Centre for 1970-1971.

Item is an audio-visual resource catalogue produced by the Audio-Visual Resource Centre for 1971-1972.

This item is a guide to non-print materials that were available to the Ryerson academic community created by the Ryerson Media Centre. The catalogue refers to films-video, filmstrips-loops, transparencies, and audio.

This item is the supplement to the media resource library catalogue of 1975.

Item is a supplement to the learning resources centre film catalogue of 1979-1980.

Item is the new acquisition list of February 1986.

Item consists of a title index of the Media Library resources from 1994.

Item is a list of orders of titles dealing with chemical technology made with the funds from a donation by IBM Canada Limited.

File is of a list of orders made with the funds donated by the Hudson's Bay Company.

Contained in the file are issues of the Library's second newsletter, Nexus, the purpose of which was to inform its readership - Ryerson faculty and Library staff - of Library activities, including employee profiles and relevant administrative changes. In November 2009, with Issue 21, NEXUS became available only as an e-issue. Due to increased use of electronic communications within Ryerson, Nexus was discontinued, the last issue being Spring 2014, Issue 29, and replaced in 2016 by a News section on the RULA* website home page.

*RULA - Ryerson University Library and Archives

File contains brochures and pamphlets from Ryerson's library from 1985-1993.

File contains two bibliographies created by the library's Nutrition Information Service in 1982:

• Infant Feeding: An Annotated Bibliography
• Nutrition & Aging: A Selected Bibliography

File contains two bibliographies created by the library's Nutrition Information Service in 1983:

• Resources on Food, Nutrition and Culture
• Nutrition and Fitness Manual: A Summary of Research and Resources

File contains Dora Dempster's, Library Co-ordinator, 1978 correspondence.

Twelve Library stamps :
RG 5.033.01 - IUTS MAIL
RG 5.033.02 - Property of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
RG 5.033.03 - Distance Support Services
RG 5.033.04 - R.P.I. Library map
RG 5.033.05 - Library Only
RG 5.033.06 - 30 minutes
RG 5.033.07 - 1 Hour
RG 5.033.08 - Newspaper
RG 5.033.09 - 3 Day
RG 5.033.10 - ARMA Collection
RG 5.033.11 - Reason withdrawn
RG 5.033.12 - Property of Ryerson Polytechnic University Library

File contains the library staff committee records from 1976-1978.

File contains public service librarians committee records from 1978-1985.

File contains documents related to the Kempenfelt Bay conference.

File contains the correspondence of Arthur Paulaitis, the Chief Librarian, from 1970 - 1973.

File contains the Library correspondence on the matter of faculty borrowing library assets.

File contains the documentation and correspondence on security alerts and fire drills related to the Library.

File contains the documentation about the borrowing privileges of retired faculty and staff.

Originally organized into the Audio-Visual binder collection with no assigned record group, it became evident that these files belonged under the Library - as the Audio-Visual Resource Library and Media Centre were once part of the Learning Resources Centre. The Series is organized using the binder number the slides were stored under. Included are staff and faculty photographs, departmental photographs, general campus photographs, building photographs, and events.

File contains 20 pages of slides showing the:

• Canadian Library Association's exhibit at Ryerson
• Library scenes from the Library's former location in the Business Building (Victoria Building)
• Library scenes from the Mordell Building, (Library building)
• Student orientation 1969
• General Ryerson scenes
• Ryerson scenes from the 1950s
• Toronto scenes from 1971
• Pierre Elliot Trudeau's visit to Ryerson in 1976
• Convocation 1969

A Finding aid exists in the front of folder, listing by topic, the pages the slides are located.

File contains 22 pages of photographic slides.

• Pages 1-4 : 1969 Winter Carnival
• Page 5 : Athletics, calendars, banquets, Board of Governors, and the old campus
• Page 6 : Campus
• Page 7 : Campus, Chemistry and Chemical technology programs
• Page 8 : Chemistry, Civil Engineering, and CJRT
• Page 9 : CJRT, convocation, Electronics, and various faculty
• Page 10 : Various staff
• Page 11 : Various programs
• Page 12 : Various programs, the library and Kerr Hall
• Page 13 : Kerr Hall and Mechanical Technology
• Pages 14-15 : Miscellaneous programs and events
• Pages 16-17 : RTA
• Page 18 : RTA and other programs
• Page 19 : SURPI (RSU) and students in programs
• Page 20 : Students in various programs and the creation of the Bird of Spring sculpture
• Pages 21-22 : Programs as well as interior and exterior campus buildings

File contains 10 pages of photographic slides :

• Page 1 : Ryerson's Open Houses, 1969 & 1971
• Pages 1-9 : Interior Design and Furniture Design, 1970
• Pages 9-10 : Journalism Department, 1974

File contains 10 pages of photographic slides :

• Page 1 : Journalism Department
• Pages 1-5 : RTA
• Pages 5-7 : Photographic Arts
• Page 8 : Athletics
• Page 8-10 : computation labs
• Page 10 : Theatre School and the Media Centre

File contains 10 pages of photographic slides :

• Pages 1-3 : Media Centre
• Page 3 : Miscellaneous photographs
• Pages 4-8 : Ryerson faculty and Staff
  Pages 9 - 10 have photographs of the L. R. C. (Learning Resource Centre)

File contains 8 pages of photographic slides :

• Pages 1-3 : L.R.C
• Pages 3 -5 : Howard Kerr Hall and the Quadrangle
• Pages 5-8 : Campus and its buildings

File contains textual records pertaining to financial matters including a report of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's Financial Statements of 1976 and correspondence between the library and finance department.

File contains correspondence, fact sheets, and memoranda related to evening studies.

File contains memorandums from the Audio-Visual department, also known as the Media Centre, from 1976.

File contains proposals, correspondence, and a provisional report on library circulation systems from 1978, related to the DOBIS circulation system from.

File contains correspondence, statistics, policies, and a seating survey related to the circulation system from 1977-1979.

File contains the correspondence of Sue Giles and Dora Dempster, Co-ordinators of Library Services, from 1981-1987.

File contains the Library's Nutrition Information Service Department's funding requests as well as project proposals, correspondence, applications, and a budget summary.

File contains a draft report on the assessment of the Library and Learning Resources Centre (LRC) space requirements.

File contains general records related to the Order Department including memorandums and job descriptions.

File contains documents related to activities of the Library 6th floor staff, including annual reports, collection analyses and listings, job responsibilities, correspondence, and procedures from 1979.

File contains documents related to the 9th floor (Community and Social services) of the library including correspondence, a request for funds for the energy information service, proposals, meeting minutes, job descriptions, questionnaires, and pathfinders from 1974-1979.

File contains memorandums, estimates, meeting minutes, reports, and correspondence on library planning from 1969-1971.

File contains memorandums, a proposal, meeting reports, and a floor plan on library planning from 1972.

File contains memorandums, meeting reports, and specifications on library planning from 1973-1974.

File contains a copy of the findings for the Ontario Nutrition Information needs assessment study.

File contains the "Project for History of Canadian Fashion Merchandising's" project proposal.

File contains Librarian staff meeting agendas, minutes and accompanying materials from the meetings held in 1977.

The file consists of teaching aids for in-house, library staff workshops on electronic information. Delivered during the early years of electronic information, the workshops included using CD-ROM* databases and Boolean search functions, as well as the research potential of the World Wide Web, and the Lexis/Nexis periodical database service.

Most of the file is dedicated to the Internet - terminology and the functions of the World Wide Web : connecting to MATRIX (Ryerson computer network system) from which one could access e-mail, the Ryerson or Library home pages, discussion and news groups, or search the Internet using Gopher or browsers such as Mosaic (later Netscape), and surfing the Net with search engines (Alta Vista, Lycos, Yahoo, etc.).

The workshops strengthened staff research skills to assist students and other patrons with electronic information research. Most of the teaching aids are duplicates of the handouts, as well as overheads.

*CD-ROM is the acronym for Compact Disc Ready-Only Memory.

Materials include posters, postcards and digital photographs (partial finding aid available). Reception and Preview held during the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada. Please see RG 3.92 for materials concerning this conference.

Sub-series consists of e-mail notices to all Library personnel primarily by the listserv ryelib regarding Accessibility within the University Library.

Digital photographs contained on CDs within file.

faxed copy of the draft service agreement entered into between The Ontario Ministry of Labour and Ryerson Polytechnic University, providing certain library rights to the Ministry.

File contains two letters of support from faculty to the Blue and Gold Service Award Nomination Committee in support of the Ryerson Library's E-Reserve One-Stop Course Reading application for an award.

Glass trophy awarded to Ryerson Library.

File consists of architectural floor plans of various floors in the library for the ground floor renovations.

File consists of the following reports prepared with Rounthwaite, Dick & Hadley and Roger Jones & Associates:

• Interim Report on Master Plan for Ryerson University Library (July 2005)
• Ryerson University Library Long Range Plan (November 22, 2005)
• Ryerson University Library Long Range Plan (December 7, 2005)
• Ryerson University Library Long Range Plan (December 13, 2005)
• Ryerson University Library Long Range Plan (January 2006)

File contains textual records related to Ryerson Library's long term hosing of Toronto Freenet - a public access community computer network.

File contains textual records related to Ryerson Library's collaboration with the Lanzhou Railway Institute in the People's Republic of China. Includes Joint Computer Applications Project description

File consists of a handwritten thank you speech delivered by Rosemary Garry at her retirement party in the the Library staff lounge on December 9, 2008. See RG 5.260 for photographs.

The file consists of Committee records - staff survey, survey results, policy - and general e-mails.See also RG5.102 (1978 - 1991) RG 5.164 (1992 - 1997) and RG 5.214 (1998 - 2006).

File contains correspondence, Library Council meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and accompanying materials for the meetings held in 1992. Also included are library policy drafts. File is divided into 2 folders.

File contains correspondence, Library Council meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and accompanying materials for the meetings held in 1993.

File contains meeting minutes from 2 special library council meetings held in January and March of 2009.

File contains job postings sent by the Human Resources department from 1964-1986.

File contains the staffing announcements within the library from 1968-2007.

The file consists of notices of miscellaneous library research, citation, bibliography workshops and drop-in sessions.

File is a copy of the statement of purpose of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute Library from 1979.

File contains library staff lists from 1971 onwards.

File contains the library staff telephone directories from 1982 onwards.

File contains 19 guidebooks and accompanying materials.

File contains information relating to library hours, policy changes, library events, new equipment and general correspondence to library staff.

File contains information relating to library hours, policy changes, library events, new equipment and general correspondence to library staff from 1986-1992.

Contains documents related to events arranged by the Library for the Ryerson community, and visitors who are mostly connected to an event.

File contains various forms from the library from 1970-2011.

File contains the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute library's progress report and future objectives from 1968-1970.

File is the Ryerson Institute of Technology library embossing press.

Item is the following guide from 1988: How to distribute all the useful stuff you compile on your floor to the Ryerson community and beyond...........

File contains the library's general statistics from 1982 onwards.

A binder of documentation regarding Library reorganization (1987-1992) from Eva Friesen, acting chief librarian. It was compiled during her tenure as head librarian, Technical Services.

File contains the collection evaluation reports for architectural technology and landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, interior design, graphic arts management, applied geography, and fashion.

File contains the collection evaluation reports for mathematics, computer science, physics, civil engineering technology, chemical engineering technology, mechanical engineering technology, and electrical engineering.

File contains display boards with information on the NEXUS newsletter that was published by the library.

File contains various library service policies and proposed policies. It also contains items from a library workshop entitled "Philosophy and Ethics of Academic Library Service" and the following publications:

• Information Services for Information Consumers: Guidelines for Providers
• The future of reference II: A paradigm of academic library organization
• Library Paradigm - One View
• Creating the Service Culture: Strategies for Canadian Business, Chapter 3: Developing the Culture

File contains two copies of the orientation handbooks for new library staff from April 1992 and August 1992.