By Prof. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Penn State, Video by Jacquelyn Sundberg, McGill Libraries What is a turn-up book? A brief history A turn-up book is an interactive booklet that has been engaged with by children and adults from the mid-17th century …
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Unveiling the Secret of Nancy Petry’s Bird of Paradise
by Sophie Becquet, McGill Visual Arts Collection Student Assistant (2024-) Une version française est ci-dessous Nancy Petry is one of the few artists who attended the Bachelor of Fine Arts program during its brief existence at McGill University between 1948 …
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A Few of Our Favourite Things
A happy cohort of undergraduate students were hired last term to devote their energies to systematically comb through a portion of the stacks in Rare Books and Special Collections in order to stabilize books most in need of protection. Working …
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