Monthly Archives: January 2026

New program for community groups: Partner with McGill Libraries to digitize your heritage collections!

Employee working at a computer reviewing a scanned image of a graduating class.

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 …

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Keeping McGill’s digital collections running smoothly: A Libraries IT-Services collab

Illustration of three staff members stomping on bots

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, …

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Get Involved in Sustainable Change at McGill Libraries

Overlapping circles representing economic environmental and social sustainability,

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 …

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Notes from the Archive: A Summer with Architecture

Charcoal and graphite sketches from Hugh McLennan student work fonds

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 …

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