Materials in the Ontario Historical Education Collections (OHEC) may be viewed by appointment only and may not be borrowed. Please contact oise.library@utoronto.ca or call 416-978-1850 to book an appointment to access OHEC materials. If possible, please provide the call numbers of the items you wish to view. Prior to gaining access to materials, patrons are required to submit a form indicating their understanding of the Reading Room Rules, provided upon booking.
Please note that many of our popular collections have been digitized via the Internet Archive.
To restrict your catalogue search to the OHEC without using the link above, or to add additional collections to your search, follow these steps:
1. On the OISE Library homepage, click on Advanced Search. 
2. Click Catalogue and select OISE/UT Library from the Search Scope drop-down menu.
3. Type your keywords into the search box, for example, "high school" or examinations. Searches for specific types of material include keywords such as calendar or regulations. For additional search strategies, see LibrarySearch Tips. After inputting your keyword(s), click Search.
4. On the new page, navigate to Location in Library in the lefthand toolbar. To limit your search results to OHEC materials, select OISE/UT Library - Ontario Historical Education Collection from the Library Location list. Please note that some Ontario Historical Education Collection materials are located in OISE/UT Library – Storage, OISE/UT Library - Microfilm, or OISE/UT Library – Periodical Stacks, so you may wish to select these locations as well.
5. Limit your search with the additional filters provided in the lefthand toolbar and click Apply Filters or Refine.
Many titles are listed under a single catalogue record. See the "Other title" field for the full list of document titles under each record.
Use the term "courses of study" as an alternate to curriculum when searching for historical curriculum documents.
Many educational documents are catalogued as serials and will appear in the search results under "Journals."
For serialized documents, see the "General note" field of the catalogue record for the years covered by our collection.
Grade levels are sometimes indicated in Roman numerals (e.g., Grade XII).