Detail from Bourdon's silk painting (ca. 1678) illustrating the neurovascular anatomy of the respiratory system.

Call for Applications | Michele Larose – Osler Library Artist-in-Residence Programme

La version française suit. Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Michele Larose, artist and paediatric neuropsychiatrist who trained in psychiatry and child psychiatry at McGill and in visual arts at Curtin University in Australia, the Osler Library of the History …

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June 23, 2025

Steve Blaise (left) and Mila Bozic Erkic (right) smiling in front of a red McGill Libraries banner.

Celebrating winners of the 2025 McGill Libraries’ Staff Excellence Awards

La version française suit. Congratulations to Steven Blaise, Customer Service Coordinator and Mila Bozic Erkic, Head Library Clerk at the Nahum Gelber Law Library, recipients of the 2025 Staff Excellence Awards! The award honours the extraordinary service, important efforts, and achievements …

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June 12, 2025

Personal and Colourful

By Angela Mortimer, Master of Information Studies (MISt) student at McGill University. Angela is passionate about material culture, public libraries, and social history, and getting people interested in the same. While working at Rare Books and Special Collections, I …

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May 30, 2025

Award winners Julia Couture and Sara-Alba Gonzalez Pepe with a red Friends of the Library banner.

Celebrating the inaugural Friends of the Libraries Student Awards

La version française suit. On Monday, April 28, students, library staff, and Friends of the McGill Libraries members gathered together in celebration of the inaugural Friends of the Libraries Student Library Award winners. The awards are generously supported by the Friends of the Libraries …

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May 20, 2025

Illustration against a wall. Subject: Person painted entirely red/pink.

Pain Made Visible: Art, Illness, and Inquiry at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine

La version française suit. On April 17, a packed audience filled the reading room of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine for two events exploring the subject of pain. The event opened with an artist panel, pain subjects: …

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April 25, 2025

Cover 1986 catalogue Mossman Collection of the History of Science and Ideas.

Practicum Pause: Ezra J. Teboul

La version française suit For MISt student Ezra J. Teboul, a practicum at McGill Libraries was the perfect blend of history, technology, and librarianship. With a background in the history of signal processing and electronic music, Ezra was drawn to …

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April 22, 2025

McGill Daily Special Supplement May 1958

Backstory: A History of McGill Student Publications

La version française suit. Originally published on August 4, 2017 in The Dark Room Guest post by Annelise Dowd. Annelise is a graduate of the McGill University Master of Information Studies program who worked on a practicum project working with …

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April 22, 2025

Imprimé à Montréal: Montreal and McGill in the history of print

By Chelsea Thompson Quartz, SIS Practicum Student, Book Arts Lab (RBSC). This blog post is complemented by a physical exhibition in the Rare Books & Special Collections reading room, April – September 2025. Fleury Mesplet Montreal formally enters the history …

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April 15, 2025