Materials in this collection are housed in The Ivey Family London Room.  The London Room is a research facility for genealogy and local history located at the Central Library. It contains a wealth of secondary source materials on the city of London and the counties of Elgin, Middlesex, Norfolk and Oxford as well as original materials on the city of London and Middlesex County, such as:

Published weekly by Time Inc., Time Magazine has focused on conveying to a broad audience both domestic and international news and analysis on a spectrum of subjects.

Intended to be read in under an hour, each issue of Time contains reports of national and international current events, politics, sports, and entertainment. Capturing the relevant news for a given week, the magazine remains an important resource for researchers studying just about any aspect of 20th-Century history and life.

The Atlantic was originally created with a focus on publishing leading writers' commentary on abolition, education and other major issues in contemporary political affairs at the time. Over its more than 150 years of publication. It has featured articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, science and more.

Maclean’s Magazine Archive is valuable to researchers of 20th-Century current events, gender issues, politics and culture, the history of business, advertising and more.

Published by Time Inc., the magazine has featured story-telling through documentary photographs and informative captions. Each issue visually and powerfully depicted national and international events and topical stories, providing intimate views of real people and their real life situations. 

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Biography is built on a foundation of more than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study.  It pulls information from Gale reference material, journals and multimedia.

Perhaps you’re doing a project on ancient Mesopotamia and its contributions to civilization or you need an overview of the workings of the United Nations or you need to demystify the world of computers and web portals. The Gale eBooks collection is akin to having the world of knowledge at your fingertips. The main content page lists 17 major subjects such as Arts, Environment , Law, Medicine, Multiculturalism, Nation and the World, Religion and Technology.