If you want to catch up on some casual reading this summer or explore some of your areas of interest, you'll want to see what you have access to in Flipster.

Flipster is a digital magazine 'newsstand' service. Read popular magazines including Maclean’s, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Ebony, Today's Parent, Toronto Life, Vogue and more in full colour format online.

Highlights from some of the latest issues include:

• Vanity Fair: Kendrick Lamar - on tour with the Pulitzer Prize winning king of rap
• Toronto Life: The Best of the City - insiders guide to food, drink, fashion and fun
• The New Yorker: What Women Want - equal pay and how BBC employees got it
• Canadian Living: Summer Fresh Recipes

Access Flipster from the Database List OR download Flipster from most app stores (Android or Apple products) to read on the go!

What is fun? How is it distinct from happiness or pleasure? How do we know when we are having it? This book provides a comprehensive sociological account of this 'taken for granted' social phenomenon. The author investigates areas such as our memories of fun in childhood, the fun we have as adults, our muted experiences of fun at work and our lived experiences of having fun.

Thousands of street cats live in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, as they have for centuries. Some are wild and fend for themselves, while others are tamer and are cared for by people. Kedi depicts these cats, and includes many interviews of the people who interact with them.

This collection of essays from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada welcomes readers into a timely conversation. These reflective and personal pieces come from journalists, writers, academics, visual artists, filmmakers, city planners, and lawyers, all of whom share their personal light-bulb moments regarding when and how they grappled with the harsh reality of colonization in Canada, and its harmful legacy.They look deeply and honestly at their own experiences and assumptions about race and racial divides in Canada in hopes that the rest of the country will do the same.

The library has updated our group study room booking system.

It is now easier to view and make bookings on mobile devices.

The biggest change is the placement of the calendar and the colors used to indicate booking status.

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Click the "Go To Date" to pick a date from the calendar or move back and for between dates by clicking the > buttons.

When you are making a booking the times will appear in gold until you have submitted and confirmed your booking.

If you want to catch up on some casual reading or explore some of your academic topics, you'll want to see what you have access to in Flipster.

Flipster is a digital magazine 'newsstand' service. Read popular magazines including Maclean’s, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Ebony, Today's Parent, Toronto Life, Vogue and more in full colour format online.

Highlights from some of the latest issues include:

• Ebony: Danai Gurira embraces her black girl magic mojo
• Cooking Light: 3-day gut health makeover
• Popular Science: A frantic quest to save the northern white rhino from extinction
• Toronto Life: Tales of love and hope from Yonge and Finch

Access Flipster from the Database List OR download Flipster from most app stores (Android or Apple products) to read on the go!

The Dark Side of Social Media takes a consumer psychology perspective to online consumer behavior in the context of social media, focusing on concerns for consumers, organizations, and brands. Using the concepts of digital drama and digital over-engagement, established as well as emerging scholars in marketing, advertising, and communications present research on some unintended consequences of social media including body shaming, online fraud, cyberbullying, online brand protests, social media addiction, privacy, and revenge pornography.

Roots of Entanglement offers an historical exploration of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and European newcomers in the territory that would become Canada. Various engagements between Indigenous peoples and the state are emphasized and questions are raised about the ways in which the past has been perceived and how those perceptions have shaped identity and, in turn, interaction both past and present.

See our infographic for an analysis of the Indigenous print collection.

For further titles and research, please see our Aboriginal Research Guide.