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Sneak Peek: The new eScholarship@McGill is almost here!

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by Awais Mehmood Khalid, Programmer Analyst As we move closer to the June 1 launch of the new eScholarship@McGill on the Scholaris platform, we’re excited to share an early look at what’s coming. This sneak peek highlights a few of …

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Treasures on display: the Golden Ink exhibit in Abu Dhabi

The conservator checks the light levels after installing B.O. 7508.

La version française suit By Anaïs Salamon, Head Librarian, Islamic Studies Library and Mary Hague-Yearl, Molina Family Head Librarian and Osler Librarian, Osler Library of the History of Medicine On the last day of September 2025, two Osler Library manuscripts …

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Rediscovering Montreal with Gabor Szilasi’s Photographic Angle

Gabor Szilasi’s photos speak for themselves. You will likely hear their message for yourself if you pay a visit to Hinge Points; Gabor Szilasi’s Photographic Angle. There are bilingual guided tours of the exhibition available on April 16th and May …

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Transgender Day of Visibility is March 31

Crop of Interview with McGill Professor Oliva Jensen from the McGill Daily’s 1995 LGBT Special Issue

by Sofie Tsatas, Senior Reference Assistant & Cataloguing Editor, Marvin Duchow Music Library Introduction  Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is a day to celebrate the lives of transgender, Two-Spirit, gender nonconforming, and non-binary people while also acknowledging the systemic and disproportionate discrimination that these communities face. Founder Rachel Crandall-Crocker, a psychotherapist and the …

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Prometheus Unbound

By Hiʻiakalehuakaulei Hashimoto (Kanaka ʻŌiwi), Curatorial Intern for Indigenous Art (2023-), McGill Visual Arts Collection “Iapetos, moreover, wedded the damsel Klymene, a fair-ankled Okeanos-daughter, and ascended into a common bed. And she bore him Atlas, a stout-hearted son, and brought …

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Recap: Black History Month at the Libraries

Six books featured in the print book display for Black History Month. Top row: POsition as Desired, A Stolen Life, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered. Bottom row: Corssing the Border, Odysseys Home, Performing Postracialism

This February, McGill Libraries marked Black History Month (BHM) with an event and displays that honoured Black excellence, scholarship, and storytelling – past and present. A highlight of the month was the book launch of Genius Unbroken: The Life and …

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Manuscripts, metadata, and medical history: Announcing the digitized Harvey Cushing fonds

Letter to Harvey Cushing, July 10, 1925, from Larry Reynolds. P417-2-57-213.

by Anna Dysert, Co-ordinator for Cataloguing and Metadata, Collections Services La version française suit. The former Osler Letter Index site served as a valuable resource for those wishing to explore correspondence to and from Sir William Osler. The Index has …

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Calling all Winter Carnival enthusiasts

Winter Carnival logo featuring red Martlet in a circle with the words "McGill Winter Carnival"

Brisk February days bring to mind the fun, music, and community of McGill’s Winter Carnivals! The first one was in 1948 and subsequent events included athletic activities, ice sculptures, and much more winter fun. McGill University Archives have in their …

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Colour Our Collections: McGill Edition

February is Colour Our Collections month – and even if it’s not formally organized this year (the last global campaign launched by The New York Academy of Medicine Library wrapped in 2024), that doesn’t mean that we can’t brighten up …

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Notes from the Archive: A Summer with Architecture

Charcoal and graphite sketches from Hugh McLennan student work fonds

La version française suit 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. …

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