Students from all four collaborative programs are encouraged to attend. For write-ups of previous research days please see the Environewsletter on our webiste. The University of Toronto Library system, with over 8 million volumes, is the largest in Canada and one of the best in North America. The Engineering Library has a 123,000 volume collection including books and approximately 1,500 current periodical titles covering all fields of engineering. As well, an excellent selection of engineering bibliographies, indexes, abstracts, and databases are available on UTLink and CD ROMs.
Staffs are on hand to assist with research strategy suggestions.
The Information Commons is located on the first floor of the Robarts Library. The Commons provides support for the U. of T. Institutional e-mail service, UTORmail and general modem access to the Internet through the UTORdial service. Every student is entitled to a UTORmail account for e-mail access. There is no charge associated with UTORmail accounts. Facilities are provided to transfer data to and from the ECF systems so that personal and University computers can complement each other.