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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🎙️ Episode 10, The Future of Robarts now available. What role will research libraries play in an increasingly digital world? Librarians, scholars, architects & urbanists reflect on the future of one of Toronto’s most iconic buildings. #uoft @uoftlibraries.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-unquiet-...

Photo of Robarts Library and the Robarts Common addition during cherry blossom peak bloom.

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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“It looks like a prison.” “I think the architecture is really beautiful.” Robarts Library has always inspired strong reactions. In our back-to-school bonus episode, I asked incoming students: What’s your first impression of Robarts? 🎧 Listen now: shows.acast.com/the-unquiet-... #UofT #Toronto

Photo of Robarts Library, a concrete, triangular, brutalist building. From this perspective some say it looks like a bird. Trees in fall
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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

New episode! Ep. 9 of The Unquiet Library: “Bringing the University Online.” From word processing to email, dial-up access, and the first library and university websites, discover how Robarts helped move #UofT into the digital age. 🎧 shows.acast.com/the-unquiet-... @uoftlibraries.bsky.social

Photo of the Information Commons computer workstations on the first floor of Robarts Library.

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UofT Libraries @uoftlibraries.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

#ICYMI - @unquietlibrary.bsky.social takes a #BTS stroll through Robarts' iconic hallways and dispels a few common myths along the way 🤫

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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Before Google and WiFi, there was microfiche and dialing into the internet by phone. Episode 8 explores how Robarts Library helped invent the future of library and research technology. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or Acast: shows.acast.com/the-unquiet-... @uoftlibraries.bsky.social

Library research using a microfiche catalogue reader. Black and white archival photo.

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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Episode 7 is out! The Unquiet Library dives into the analogue world of Robarts: card catalogues, ringing telephones, typewriters, conveyor belts, and the rhythms of pre-digital research. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧 📚 #uoft #libraries #toronto @uoftlibraries.bsky.social

Black and white archival photo of the Robarts Library card catalogue. A long, tall wooden filing cabinet of small drawers.

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jessecarliner.bsky.social @jessecarliner.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🎧 Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts or on Acast: shows.acast.com/the-unquiet-...

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Ep. 6 Facing Austerity | The Unquiet Library: Fifty years of Robarts Library

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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Austerity isn’t new and neither are tensions around technology, labour, and funding. Episode 6 of The Unquiet Library, “Facing Austerity,” explores Robarts Library’s strikes and what they might tell us about today’s universities. #AcademicLibraries #HigherEd @uoftlibraries.bsky.social

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Beautiful brutalism & some trees in the way of the view.

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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Unquiet Library Episode 5 out now! “The Pink Collar” looks at the gendered history of Robarts Library. Stories of resistance, resilience, and reform, told through oral history. 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts or on Acast shows.acast.com/the-unquiet-... @uoftlibraries.bsky.social

Black and white archival photo of Robarts Library in the 1970s. A group of women librarians have a tour and are looking at a directory map of with a floor plan of Robarts library and a sign that says “Books must be charged out at…floor”

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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🎙️ New episode is live: From Fort Book to the Heart of Campus. This episode traces how librarians, staff and advocates pushed for accessibility, better service, and spaces where students could feel safe, supported and at home. 🎧 shows.acast.com/the-unquiet-... @uoftlibraries.bsky.social

Photo of a colorful children’s play area in Robarts Library, including child size table and stools and toy storage furniture.

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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Before search engines, there were card catalogues, and the librarians who guarded them. Episode 3 of The Unquiet Library looks back at this iconic space and these brilliant and formidable human search engines. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. @uoftlibraries.bsky.social

Black and white photo of the Robarts Library reference room card catalog in the 1970s.

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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Brutalism is back, and in Episode 2, we explore how Robarts went from “Toronto’s ugliest building” to a beloved icon (especially in cherry blossom season 🌸). Has the world finally caught up to Robarts? 🎧 Episode 2 is out now! #UofT #RobartsLibrary #Brutalism #TorontoArchitecture #Toronto

Photo of the triangular concrete Robarts Library with cherry blossoms in the foreground.

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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Learn why Robarts Library is so hard to navigate. Episode 1 is out now: “Toronto’s Ugliest Building?”. 🎧Listen now: shows.acast.com/the-unquiet-... #UofT #TorontoPodcast #AcademicLibraries #Brutalism #TorontoArchitecture #Libraries

Puppy trying to get over a wall of magazines and books

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Brutal. I've got a few bits in these podcasts defending Canada's greatest building.

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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

#RobartsLibrary has been compared to a concrete spaceship & used as the set of a post-apocalyptic prison in Resident Evil. 🧟 Ep. 1 The Unquiet Library explores why this building’s design & presence provoke strong reactions like no other library in Toronto. #UofT 🎧 Listen now on most platforms.

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UofT Libraries @uoftlibraries.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Iconic. Polarizing. Unforgettable. Robarts Library has been called many things over the past 50 years. The Unquiet Library podcast explores the voices, tensions, and histories that shaped it. The first episodes are now streaming. 🎧 open.spotify.com/show/0AjhamY...

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Ep. 2 A Brutalist Masterpiece?

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The Unquiet Library Podcast @unquietlibrary.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Ugly or iconic? Robarts Library has been called many things — but the stories inside are far louder than the architecture. The Unquiet Library— now streaming everywhere. #TheUnquietLibrary #RobartsLibrary #TorontoPodcast #TorontoHistory #UofT #Brutalism #TorontoArchitecture

Black and white photo of a large concrete library building of distinctive architecture resembling a peacock or turkey.

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