Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia visiting with Sikkimese texts during a research trip to Fisher Library.

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia visiting with Sikkimese texts during research trip to UofT’s Fisher Library.

Jim Canary (Head Cons., Indiana U.) and Maia Balint (Conservator, UofT Fisher Library) discussing care of some Tibetan paper manuscripts at UofT Fisher Library.

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia and Za Thinley Gyatso visiting with Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts in the Lhalungpa Collection, UofT’s East Asian Library. Gyatso completed description work for the hundreds of books in the collection.

Image of amatl/ ficus fibre of a Techialoyan Codex (1690-1720) taken at UofT’s Yip Lab with ZEISS Axio Z1 optical microscope, 40x magnification (Axoloapan Xoloctlan, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library).

MSI image of a parchment binding fragment, identified through imaging and analysis as a 15th‑c. letter drafted from King Louis XI (Reuter FF0012, Robertson Davies Library, Massey College, UofT).

Hidden writing revealed through multispectral (MSI) image on a water-damaged Iberian 15th-c. Hebrew manuscript on paper (Freidberg MSS 3-012, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library).

Amanda McLeod speaking on Wâhkôhtowin: Hidden Stories, Indigenous experience, and recentering the wampum at the 2025 AICCM conference in Brisbane, November 13, 2025.