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Dewey Lives!

This summer, the Toronto Public Library KidsSpace website comes to life as a larger than life Dewey visits locations around Toronto. What’s a Dewey? Dewey is/are the KidsSpace mascots and they are helpful alien clones that love to read, play, and tell stories.

Dewey was discovered in late 2005 by intrepid explorer, and builder of fine boogaloos, Jerrold Connors. Since then, Dewey has been hard at play hanging out with all sorts of kids online and at Toronto Public Library branches across …

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A Real Page Turner

A few years ago, zinc Roe began working with the Toronto Public Library to develop a tool for displaying archival books from their various special collections branches. The library’s inspiration was Turning the Pages; a tool created by the British Library that, at the time, required the Shockwave plug-in (The British Library has recently produced Turning the Pages 2.0 as a Windows Vista / Silverlight application). Turning the Pages was available for license through the British Library, but the Toronto Public Library …

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