Colour Our Collections: McGill Edition
February is Colour Our Collections month – and even if it’s not formally organized this year (the last global campaign launched by The New York Academy of Medicine Library wrapped in 2024), that doesn’t mean that we can’t brighten up …
From Enssib to McGill Libraries: An interview with Paloma Juno
La version française suit. This fall, McGill University Libraries welcomed Paloma Juno, a student from l’École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (Enssib) in Lyon, France, for an enriching international internship. Her time at McGill came at …From Enssib to McGill Libraries: An interview with Paloma Juno Read More »
New program for community groups: Partner with McGill Libraries to digitize your heritage collections!
We’re excited to announce the launch of Community Digitization Partnerships, a new initiative from McGill Libraries’ Digitization Lab. These partnerships are designed to support Quebec-based community organizations, cultural institutions, and academic collaborators in preserving and sharing their heritage collections. Through this program, we’re offering two new …
Keeping McGill’s digital collections running smoothly: A Libraries IT-Services collab
Beginning in early 2024, McGill Libraries and IT Services faced an unexpected challenge: an overwhelming surge of automated web traffic directed at two of the Libraries’ major public platforms – eScholarship institutional digital repository for theses and open access materials, …Keeping McGill’s digital collections running smoothly: A Libraries IT-Services collab Read More »
Get Involved in Sustainable Change at McGill Libraries
by Jenn Riley, Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives Do you care about environmental, social, and economic sustainability? Do you value the services and collections provided by the McGill Libraries? What if you could advance both at the same time? The McGill Libraries is seeking up …Get Involved in Sustainable Change at McGill Libraries Read More »
Notes from the Archive: A Summer with Architecture
by Jessica Huang, Student Project Assistant, Rare Books & Special Collections, 2025 (BSc Pharmacology, Philosophy minor) “The more abstract, the more ideal an art is, the more it reveals to us the temper of its age. If we wish to …Notes from the Archive: A Summer with Architecture Read More »
McGill Libraries Word Search fun!
We’ve put together a McGill Libraries themed word search that celebrates the people, places, and services that support research, learning, and discovery across our campuses. Whether you’re home stealing a quiet moment between festivities or away on a beach somewhere …
Explore the Quebec skiing history collection
A newly highlighted collection at McGill Libraries captures this rich history of skiing in Montreal and Quebec during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection consists of photographs, hotel advertisements and informational pamphlets, postcards, and ephemera illustrating the …
