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New Digital Chapbook Collection

Nursery rhymes, riddles, ballads, traditional poems and songs for young and old alike – all at the touch of a button. The Rare Books and Special Collections Library at McGill University contains over nine hundred British and American chapbooks published …

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Do you have what it takes?

This time of year is a flurry of activity here at the Library as we gear up for orientation. Every year, first year and returning students are invited to take part in numerous branch-wide orientation workshops and tours where participants …

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Exhibit: The Alcuin Society Awards For Excellence In Book Design In Canada 2012

McLennan Library Building : main floor,  3459 rue McTavish Montreal Quebec Canada , H3A 0C9 On July 2013 Free entrance. Accessible during opening hours. Since 1981 the Alcuin Society has sponsored the only national competition for book design in Canada. Each year, …

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LibQual 2013 Survey winners announced

From March 11 to the end of April, the McGill Library launched LibQUAL+ Survey, an online questionnaire of user satisfaction open to students and faculty. This is the 9th time the Library has conducted LibQUAL+ since 2001. In the past, …

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Voltaire is in the house

  Moving day came early at the library today. A collection of rare and special materials by and about Voltaire made its way into the McLennan Library Building today. What is this all about? Stay tuned. Library Matters will fill …

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The Green Wall at McLennan

Every year, a committee of McGill students works with the Development & Alumni Relations office (DAR) to plan and market a fundraising campaign. This campaign is called Class Action. It is geared towards the graduating class, so they can make …

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Lucy Frenette & Maya Kucij winners of the 2013 McGill Library Excellence Awards

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2013 McGill Library Excellence Awards. The awards recognize outstanding contributions and exceptional leadership to McGill’s continued success and in advancing the mission of the Library. Maya Kucij, Liaison Librarian at the Education Library & …

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Exhibit: Legacies Denied: Unearthing the Visual Culture of Canadian Slavery

An exhibition in Rare Books and Special Collections McLennan Library Building : 4th floor, Rare Books and Special Collections, 3459 rue McTavish Montreal Quebec Canada , H3A 0C9 This exhibition and the accompanying catalogue emerged from a fourth year undergraduate Art History course, “Canadian …

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Summer Renovation Projects – McLennan-Redpath Complex

There are two projects that will be taking place over the course of the summer in the McLennan-Redpath Complex (Humanities and Social Sciences Library): McLennan Redpath Terrace Project – Phase 3 Timeline: June 3- November 30, 2013 The third and …

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Exhibit: Designing Doctors

Designing Doctors: An exhibition highlighting the contributions of physicians to hospital architecture at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine Curated by Prof. Annmarie Adams, Director, School of Architecture, McGill University McIntyre Medical Building : Osler Library of the History of …

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