Dr. Chun Resource Library

About the Library 

The Dr. Chun Resource Library is a space for community members and University of Toronto students to access factual, critical, and alternative materials that facilitate resistance against oppression among and between diverse communities. In particular, the library is committed to collecting materials that reflect the local voices of our community, and the voices of those who have been marginalized and oppressed in our daily lives and in political mobilizing.

The Dr. Chun Resource Library offers its patrons unconventional and difficult-to-come-by materials that reflect a wide variety of social justice topics including anti-capitalist and anti-colonial resistance, anti-racism, feminism, disability justice, queer and trans liberation, reproductive rights, environmentalism, and more!

Our History

Originally opened on September 13, 2000, the Dr. Chun Resource Library began as a small collection of material amassed over the years by both OPIRG and the Centre for Women and Trans People. In 2000, Dr. Kin Yip Chun, a professor and researcher who was wrongfully denied a tenure track position at the University of Toronto after serving ten years in the Department of Physics, made a large contribution to the collection as an act of solidarity among communities struggling for social justice. The library was thus renamed the Dr. Chun Resource Library after him.