Editing Victoria University, Toronto (section)

== Organization ==
[[File:Northrop Frye Hall.JPG|thumb|left|Northrop Frye Hall]]
Victoria University is governed bicamerally by the Victoria University Board of Regents and the Victoria University Senate. These bodies are represented by faculty, administrators, elected students and alumni. The colleges are governed by the Victoria College Council and Emmanuel College Council. College councils are represented by faculty, administrators and elected and appointed students. Victoria's governing charter was most recently amended in 1981, with the enactment of the Victoria University Act.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vicu.utoronto.ca/about/senate/bylaws.htm |title=Senate Powers and By-Laws |access-date=2018-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820125522/http://www.vicu.utoronto.ca/about/senate/bylaws.htm |archive-date=2007-08-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Victoria is presently the wealthiest college at the University of Toronto by net assets. In part this has been because of alumni donations, but much of the growth is specifically due to the rapidly increasing value of Victoria's large real estate holdings in downtown Toronto.

The E.J. Pratt Library is the main library in the Victoria University Library system, which operates under the wider [[University of Toronto Libraries]] system. The collection of approximately 250,000 volumes is geared towards the undergraduate programs at Vic and contains mainly humanities texts with a focus on History, English, Philosophy.<ref name=":0" /> The library also hosts rich archival special collections from notable alumni and faculty, historical figures, specific literary collections and Canadiana.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Special Collections {{!}} Collections {{!}} E.J. Pratt Library|url=https://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/collections/special_collections|access-date=2021-08-19|website=library.vicu.utoronto.ca}}</ref> The library also oversees Victoria University's institutional archives.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About the Archives {{!}} Archives {{!}} E.J. Pratt Library|url=https://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/archives|access-date=2021-08-19|website=library.vicu.utoronto.ca}}</ref>

The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and its respective library collection is located within the E.J. Pratt Library. Its holdings fall into three main categories: [[rare books]], most of which were printed before 1700 (currently about 4,000 titles), modern books and microforms (several thousand microfiches and reels). The library contains primary and secondary materials relating to virtually every aspect of the Renaissance and [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]]. In particular, it houses the [[Erasmus]] collection, one of the richest resources in [[North America]] for the study of works written or edited by the great [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[Renaissance Humanism|humanist]] Desiderius Erasmus of [[Rotterdam]]. The collection holds a substantial number of pre-1700 editions of his works, including the ''Novum Instrumentum'' of 1516.

Emmanuel College Library is the theological library of the Victoria University Library system, also operating under the wider [[University of Toronto Libraries]] system. The library is noted for its beauty and is a frequented spot by theological and undergraduate students alike, hosting a sizable theological collection specializing in spiritual care, worship, [[homiletics]], [[biblical studies]], and the Methodist tradition, among others. Special collections and rare books in Emmanuel's collection are held and can be viewed at E.J. Pratt Library.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us {{!}} Emmanuel College Library |url=https://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/emmanuel/about_us |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=library.vicu.utoronto.ca}}</ref>

[[Image:Pratt Library.JPG|right|thumb|The E.J. Pratt Library]]