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Rare items from McGill Library featured in the National Gallery of Canada’s exhibit “Artists, Architects and Artisans”

In Ottawa over the holidays? The National Gallery’s exhibit “Artists, Architects and Artisans” features about 80 pieces from McGill’s Rare and Special Collections including: rough sketches, presentation watercolours, hand-drawn scale drawings of exteriors, photographs of the interiors, and even pieces …

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Centraide Used Book & DVD Sale

Help McGill Library raise funds for Centraide of Greater Montréal! Some statistics: 27% of the population of Greater Montreal is poor (lives under the low-income threshold). In Greater Montreal, one in three children under 15 years of age is poor. …

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McGill Remembers

McGill Remembers: Exploring McGill’s War Records and Related Archives If you haven’t already checked out the McGill Remembers project, it’s a great time to visit the site. The McGill Remembers project has expanded its content, complete with new photo galleries, …

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Exhibit: The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Yellow Wallpaper. A Biography of Neurasthenia in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries

The Osler Library of the History of Medicine is pleased to announce the opening of its newest exhibition, The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Yellow Wallpaper.  A Biography of Neurasthenia in the late 19th and early 20th …

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What is Open Access?

Open Access is a major current issue within scholarly communiation.  An excellent definition is given by openaccessweek.org: “Open access is a growing international movement that uses the internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. Encouraging the …

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Recommended mobile apps

PressReader app

By: Jill Boruff & Robin Canuel This summer, the Library formed a mobile apps committee. Part of the committee’s mandate was to create a web presence for library-supported mobile apps, and to select and promote apps which optimize the use …

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New digital exhibit: Interpersonal Botany: Intersections between people, print and botany 1700-1900

How did people use print to structure and mediate their social relationships in Europe between 1700 and 1900? This exhibition offers some answers by presenting objects that document a range of interpersonal practices in the field of botany. Against the …

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News Release: BAnQ and McGill sign a partnership agreement

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and McGill University signed a partnership agreement today that creates a formal framework for future collaborative projects involving the two institutions. The agreement was signed by Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill …

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Exhibit: Flights of Fancy: Illustrated Children’s Books and the Sheila R. Bourke Collection

McLennan Library Building : 3459 rue McTavish Montreal Quebec Canada , H3A 0C9 Runs to November 30, 2013. Accessible during opening hours. Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm. Location: Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room Alcove, 4th floor, McLennan …

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Mossman Lecture: You Are What You Eat, Historical Changes in Ideas about Food and Identity

Date: Thursday, October 3 at 6pm Location: Tanna Schulich Hall, 555 Sherbrooke Street West The Mossman Endowment presents the D Lorne Gales Lecture in the History of Science featuring guest lecturer Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Professor, History of Science, …

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