On this date in 1972, popular television series M*A*S*H premiered. Did you know that Corporal Klinger, Toledo’s own Jamie Farr, donated his scripts to the Canaday Center? You can see the list of scripts at this link: utoledo.edu/library/canada…

Happy National Homemaker Day! Our rare books collection contains several manuals on domestic science, to assist with the hard work of making a home. #homemaker

HOLIDAY BREAK 2022 CLOSURE The Ward M. Canaday Center will close in observance of the Christmas and New Year holidays. The closure runs from December 23, 2022 through January 2, 2023. The Center will resume its open hours at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 3, 2023.

Happy Groundhog Day! Did you know that the Toledo Zoo’s 1st animal was a groundhog? In 1900, a farmer gave what he called a “young bear” to the superintendent of parks, who took it to Walbridge Park and built a cage for it. Thus began the Toledo Zoo. #toledozoo #GroundhogDay2023

Carlson Library & the Canaday Center commemorate Black History Month with “Exploring Experiences”, a rare book exhibition featuring 8 black women authors, from Maya Angelou to Mari Evans. The exhibit is on the 1st floor of Carlson Library throughout February. #BlackHistoryMonth

Carlson Library and the Canaday Center commemorate Women’s History Month, “Creating Legacies,” an exhibition profiling three University of Toledo women’s organizations. The exhibit will be on display on the first floor of Carlson Library throughout March.

Happy National Let’s Laugh Day! UToledo alum & first female Lucas County Commissioner, Sandy Isenberg, enjoys a good joke, and in the records of hers at the Canaday Center is a file of jokes she received from colleagues & friends. #nationalletslaughday #womenshistorymonth

Happy World Theatre Day! The Canaday Center preserves the administrative and cultural records of the University of Toledo and among them are hand-painted posters from the Department of Theatre and Film, mainly for plays performed in the 1960s and 1970s. #utoledo #WorldTheaterDay

Carlson Library and the Canaday Center commemorate National Poetry Month with an exhibition featuring the Toledo Poets Center and poet Etheridge Knight. The exhibit will be on display on the first floor of Carlson Library throughout April. #NationalPoetryMonth

On the first observation of Earth Day in 1970, UToledo President Carlson spoke to a crowd of students in the Field House during the kick-off day of an environmental teach in held on April 21. #utoledo #EarthDay2023

On Thursday, May 11, 2023 and Friday, May 12, 2023, the Canaday Center will be closed for professional development training. We will reopen for normal hours on Monday, May 15, 2023.

Scrapbooks are a popular medium for recording history. Scrapbooks pop up everywhere in the Canaday Center! A recent add includes 2 from Doreen Canaday Spitzer – our founder & daughter of our namesake – about her childhood home in Ottawa Hills: The Inlands. #NationalScrapbookDay

The Dolphin was an annual published by George Macy and distributed by the Limited Edition Club about the making of books. The Canaday Center has all three parts of number four as part of its rare books collection on the history of books and printing. #getcaughtreading

Late June 1953 saw the completion of the Big Pour, the Andersons project to build silo walls to store 3,000,000 bushels of grain. Completed in just 13 days with the help of over 200 college students, it garnered national media attention. utdr.utoledo.edu/islandora/obje…

The Canaday Center’s exhibition celebrating UToledo’s 150th birthday, Vision, Faith, and Hard Work will close on Tuesday, August 1, 2023. Until then, the exhibit is available for viewing Monday – Friday, 8:30 – 4:30 on the 5th floor of Carlson Library.

Happy Disability Pride Month! The Canaday Center is proud to be home to the papers of Hugh Gallagher, disability advocate & author of the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968, the foundation for the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into law on July 26, 1990. #DisabilityPride

Welcome Rockets! Just like you this week, these students in 1991 were at the starting point or continuation of their college adventures as they moved into the residence halls. For the students pictured here, their home away from home was Parks Tower. #utoledo

Club Carlson is back! Every Rocket is invited to Carlson Library on 9/13 to kick the year off with games, fun, and food as we transform the first two floors of the library into Club Carlson. The Canaday Center will be there with treasures from our vault. Hope to see you there!

Starting on November 16, 2023, an exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the opening of the William S. Carlson library will be available to view in the Canaday Center, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., through January 20, 2024.

The Canaday Center will be closed on Thursday, November 23 and Friday, November 24, 2023 for the Thanksgiving holiday. We will resume normal hours on Monday, November 27.