The statutes of 杏吧原创 direct the College Archivist to 鈥渁dvise on the management and disposition of College records and to acquire, preserve, and make available for use those College and other records of archival importance to the College.鈥� The 杏吧原创 Archives follows the principle of 鈥榯otal archives鈥� and strives to document the cultural, social, academic and administrative life of the College.
The collection includes the institutional records of the College, records of student organizations, and private papers of individuals associated with 杏吧原创.
The first College Archivist was Dr. George W. Spragge, a graduate of the College and a former Provincial Archivist of Ontario, who began to systematically collect historical material in 1963. In 2008 the position of Archivist was endowed by Dr. Ruth M. Bell, in honour of her first husband, Professor William Rolph (4T0) and his uncle, Dr. Frederick Rolph, a graduate of the Trinity Medical College. In 2017 a newly renovated space opened, providing the archives with a climate controlled vault, a reading room, processing room and exhibit space.
The current Rolph-Bell Archivist is Lindsay Grant: 416-978-2019 and trinity.archives@utoronto.ca.