The Toronto Reference Library has over 4.5 million items.  This archive includes old photos, slides, rare books, music scores, films, prints and etchings, novels, books to learn over 80 languages, tapes, DVDs, poetry, plays, books on ESL, a song index, children’s books, text books, subscriptions to 84 newspapers in 45 different languages, encyclopedias, cemetery records, fantasy role-playing games, 2 pianos, topographic maps, audio books, parish records, microfilm of old community newspapers, graphic novels, zines, reports, minutes from city council meetings, pamphlets, magazines, posters, broadsides, tickets, programmes, buttons, original newspapers from pre-confederation, maps from the 1400s, books in braille, periodicals, journals, genealogy indexes, manuscripts …