Monthly Archives: February 2013

Get Your Office Plants On

Here is a heads up on an interesting initiative that has sprouted up at McGill: The Greening Indoor McGill Initiative (GIMI). GIMI is on a mission to promote indoor plants in work and study spaces on campus. They have a …

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Symposium: Meetings with Books: Raymond Klibansky, Special Collections and the Library in the 21st Century

“Meetings with Books: Raymond Klibansky, Special Collections and the Library in the 21st Century” Many if not most rare book libraries have a long and complicated history of acquisitions that reflects the varied interests of collectors and benefactors, of librarians …

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Random Acts of Baklava Kindness

By: Merika Ramundo The McGill Library gets millions of visits a year but for many staff members, students, and faculty that work and study at the McLennan-Redpath Complex, one visitor has made his mark as the most generous bringer of …

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Lecture: Strokes and Hairlines

Exhibition: Strokes and Hairlines

Elegant Writing and its Place in Muslim Book Culture. An Exhibition in Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University.

Coming Soon: Group Study Space at the Education Library

Anyone who has visited the Education Library & Curriculum Resources Centre in the middle of the day knows that it can be a busy (and often very noisy) place to study.  Much of the work done by Faculty of Education …

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Recent titles in Canadian Architecture and Art

Arnaud Maggs : identification. By Josée Drouin-Brisebois; Arnaud Maggs. Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada, 2012.   The Allied Arts: Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada. By Sandra Alfoldy. McGill-Queen’s/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History.   A commerce of …

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