Episode 311: The Digital Archive at the Toronto Public Library

by Scott Monty May 30, 2025

“You can file it in our archives, Watson” [RETI] 

North America is home to a number of public collections, libraries, museums, and archives that hold treasures related to Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Not least among them is the Toronto Public Library.

Home to the famed Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, the TPL is a great friend to Sherlockians and Doyleans everywhere and regularly welcomes visitors to view and research its more than 25,000 items related to Conan Doyle. And curator Jessie Amalo joined us to talk about the digital offerings of the collection.

What can an online researcher find in the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection? What's been digitized already and what's coming up? Jessie talks about all of this, plus some of unique and wonderful surroundings of the Toronto Public Library.

Speaking of Sherlockian gatherings, we share June events in "The Learned Societies" segment, Madeline Quinones is back with A Chance of Listening, and the Canonical Couplet quiz tests your Sherlock Holmes knowledge, with something from the vaults for the winner.  Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by June 14, 2025 at 11:59 a.m. EST. All listeners are eligible to play.

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Links

• The Toronto Public Library Digital Archive
• The ACD Collection
• The Sherlock Holmes Walk
• Friends of the ACD Collection
• Other episodes mentioned:
• Episode 129: Pop Sherlock 
• Episode 126: Becoming the Gillettes
• The Learned Societies: Sherlockian Calendar
• A Chance of Listening: The Fortnightly Dispatch
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