Locating Public Libraries in a Multicultural City: A Spatial Mismatch? Nadia Caidi Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto 140 St. George Street, Toronto (Ontario), Canada M5S 3G6 Tel: 416 978 4664; Fax: 416 971 1399 nadia.caidi@utoronto.ca Danielle Allard Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto 140 St. George Street, Toronto (Ontario), Canada M5S 3G6 Tel: 416 978 4664; Fax: 416 971 1399 allard@fis.utoronto.ca Chiu Luk Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto 140 St. George Street, Toronto (Ontario), Canada M5S 3G6 Tel: 416 978 4664; Fax: 416 971 1399 luk@toronto.ca Introduction Toronto is a vibrant and multicultural city, which the United Nations recently declared to be the one of the world's most culturally diverse cities. Both Canada, the province of Ontario, and the city of Toronto (where a significant portion of immigrants decide to establish themselves) are committed to helping newcomers and longer established immigrants find their place in Canadian society and increase their social, cultural and economic participation within their new communities at all levels of local and civic life. When looking more closely at the current immigration and newcomer settlement trends in Toronto and across Canada, however, the picture is somewhat less rosy (Frenette & Morrissette, 2003; Statistics Canada, 2007). High concentration of immigrants in Canada's urban centers has a significant impact on the poverty rates for those municipalities (Ornstein, 2006). Trends in Toronto reflect a concentration of new immigrants (along with “older” immigrants) in suburbs and along the edges of the city. These suburban and outer city areas have also been recording increasing rates of poverty.