By students for students: celebrating student society support of Libraries

Students are at the heart of McGill Libraries. This Giving Tuesday, and always, we are grateful for student society support that helps improve services, collections, and spaces at McGill year in and year out. Past projects have included student employment, …

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November 28, 2023

Guests listening to special guest speakers at the Schulich Reopening Ceremony. Credit: Owen Egan

Schulich Library’s Renaissance: Celebrating Knowledge & Community

On October 30, in a great display of academic enthusiasm and community spirit, the Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering celebrated its grand re-opening after a four-year renovation period with an event that left guests inspired and …

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November 27, 2023

Exhibition Review : Forgotten! Scott, Brandtner, Eveleigh, Webber: Revisiting Montreal Abstraction of the 1940s

By Alexis Janssen, BA Art History. McGill Visual Arts Collection ARIA Intern (2022) Museum Database Assistant (2023) Forgotten! Scott, Brandtner, Eveleigh, Webber: Revisiting Montreal Abstraction of the 1940s closed at the Musée de Joliette last January, and is currently on …

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November 23, 2023

Françoise Sullivan at 100

Updated January 31, 2024 “Avant tout la danse est un reflexe, une expression spontanée d’émotions vivement ressenties. | More than anything else, dance is a reflex, a spontaneous expression of intense emotion” Françoise Sullivan, “La Danse et L’espoir.” Refus Global. …

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November 9, 2023

Open Access Week Interview: Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies

Finishing our Open Access Week interview series, the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies. Responses provided by Associate Editor, Philip Gooding. Why do you think it’s important for your journal to be open access? As the first scholarly journal dedicated …

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October 25, 2023

Open Access Week Interview: Journal of the Council for Research on Religion

Continuing our Open Access Week interview series the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion. Responses provided by Dr. Amanda Rosini. Why do you think it’s important for your journal to be open-access? Open-access journals are vital within academia …

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October 25, 2023

Open Access Week Interview: McGill Journal of Education

To kick off Open Access Week 2023, we are pleased to interview with one of the open access journals in McGill Library’s scholarly publishing program: McGill Journal of Education. Keep an eye out for more interviews to come! Why do …

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October 23, 2023

Sri Lankan Palm-Leaf Manuscripts as Sources for Medical History and the Revitalization of Traditional Knowledge

The Osler Library of the History of Medicine hosted Dr. Danister Perera this week for a talk on Olas in the McGill Library collections. The Osler Library contains 20 olas, palm-leaf manuscripts, from Sri Lanka on medical subjects written in …

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October 19, 2023

Women, Environment and Networks of Empire, book now out with MQUP

Guest Post by Anna Winterbottom Women, Environment and Networks of Empire: Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras (MQUP, 2023) is now available. Order your copy here. You can celebrate the launch of this publication with authors and editors on …

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October 12, 2023

Savoury Imbroglio!

A lot of ambiguity surrounds September’s “Caption This” image, a hilarious still from a theatrical performance at McGill. The description of this image in our digital archives is “Shots of McGill Faculty of Music production” and it was taken circa …

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October 4, 2023

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