The library is located up the stairs or elevator at the Toronto Botanical Gardens. The library is open from 6:15pm (1/2 hour earlier at the Community Quilt Workshop and Annual General meetings) for return and checkout, and closes at 7:15pm sharp. It re-opens for a few minutes after the meetings for returns only. Come early if you want time to browse. We ask that you enter through the north door to return your books and exit with your new books through the south door. Adherence to the LIBRARY POLICIES stated below will help to ensure that all members have an opportunity to benefit from our materials.

The library contains over 500 books, patterns, magazines and videos. Some of our books are not put out for display, but are kept in the archives. They may be borrowed only by members. A list of these archived books will be posted in the library, and a librarian will be happy to get one for you.

Members are permitted to take out any reasonable number of patterns, videos, and books, but only ONE new book (marked with a fluorescent sticker) and/or ONE new magazine. Please remember that books taken out at one meeting are due back at the next meeting. If you can't be there, please get a friend to return them, or contact the librarian, Phyllis Anastasiades. If you have suggestions on books you would like to see in our library, we would be very glad to consider them.

Library Policies

• Only York Heritage Quilters Guild members may borrow from the library.
  
• Please show your Membership Card each time you sign out materials.
  
• At any one time, each member may borrow: any reasonable number of patterns, videos, and books, but only ONE new book (marked with a fluorescent sticker) and/or ONE new magazine.
  
• All books and materials are due back at the next meeting (ie books can be kept for ONE month only) so that they are available to other members. If you cannot attend, please send your items with a friend or call the librarian before the meeting to arrange to renew or return them.
  
• New books may NOT be renewed. Other books may be renewed if not already reserved.
  
• Do not photocopy books or patterns from the library. This violates the author's copyright and is illegal.

Please speak to the librarian, Phyllis Anastasiades, at a meeting or call her at home if you have any questions or special requests, or to reserve a book.

New for the Guild Year 2007-2008

February 2008 (donated books)

• Lessons in Machine Quilting - Ten lessons from the easiest to the most difficult will be of particular interest to new quilters
• Blockbuster Quilts - How to design your own quilts
• Basket Garden - More than two dozen basked designs
• One of a Kind Quilts by Judy Hopkins. Make a design-your-own quilt.
• 55 Quilts from the Shelbourne Museum

November 2007

• Artful Applique: The Easy Way by Jane Townswick
• Beautifully Embellished Landscapes by Joyce Scardina Becker
• Visual Coloring: A Foolproof Approach to Color-Rich Quilts by Joan Wolfrom
• Ruth McDowell's Piecing Workshop
  

October 2007

• Landscape Quilts by Zieman and Sewell.
• Patchwork and Quilting (Book One) by Kaffee Fassett
• Vintage-Style Quilts by Flora Roberts
• Three new Magic Patch Magazines
• Three new Quilt Tsushin Magazines
• One new Quilt Japan magazine (kindly donated by Chris Okawara)

There is a binder which contains very interesting magazines from the Canadian Quilters. Learn what is happening in other parts of Canada.