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Year-End Roundup: 2025 Most Searched and Borrowed Resources
This year, thousands of community members clicked, streamed, borrowed, bookmarked, binged, and dove deep into our collections. Now it’s time to look back at the topics and resources that defined your year. Whether you’re cozying up at home or logging …
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Exaltation, The Ionkhisotha Ahsonthennékha Karáhkwa/Nookomis Giizis/Tipiskâwi-pîsim/Moon and The Mihkinâhk/Turtle Lunar Calendar
La version française suit By Aurora Rose Desjarlais (Nêhiyawak/Plains Cree First Nations, McGill Visual Arts Collection Intern, 2025-) A sculpture that has always caught my eye on McGill’s campus is Exaltation by Giovanni Porretta. It is located in the James Sculpture …
Celebrating Homecoming 2025 with the Libraries
Make the Libraries your happy place during Homecoming. Reconnect with the McGill community this fall with a masterclass, exhibit tours, library tours, and more. Our 2025 Homecoming programming has something for everyone. Masterclass AI, Privacy, and the Public Good – …
The Journey of the Jingjiao Stele: From Tang China to Montreal
La version française suit. By Sophie Becquet, McGill Visual Arts Collection Student Intern (2024-) The Jingjiao (景教) Stele, or Xi’an Nestorian Stele, holds far more than meets the eye, bridging East and West through its cultural and religious significance and …
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Warden and Witness: 118 years of the ‘Our Lady of the Snows’ banner at McGill
By Katelyn Jones, PhD Candidate, Art History, Max Stern Fellow, McGill Visual Arts Collection (2025-) A magnificent, embroidered banner titled Our Lady of the Snows hangs inconspicuously in the discrete location of the Royal Victoria College Residence Hall nicknamed the …
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ENSSIB and McGill sign a partnership agreement
La version française suit. On June 30, 2025, Nathalie Marcerou-Ramel, Director of l’École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB) and Guylaine Beaudry, Trenholme Dean of Libraries at McGill University, signed a partnership agreement between the two …
Summer Book Bingo at McGill Libraries!
La version française suit. Looking for a fun way to tackle your summer reading list? Try your hand at the McGill Libraries’ Summer Book Bingo! Whether you’re a student, staff, or faculty member, this is your chance to explore new …
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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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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