By Ruoshan Gu and Mary Hague-Yearl The staff at the Osler Library are always on the lookout for new ways to challenge our colleagues in Digital Initiatives. The team in the digitization lab seem to be able to do anything, …
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R. Tait McKenzie’s The Sprinter: The Growth of an Iconic Image
By Phoebe Fisher, Student, McGill University Archives I recently received an inquiry from a family member of Thomas Graydon, a past McGill employee who was presented with a Sprinter statue by the McGill track team in circa 1911. The …
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Bernard Lorjou’s Le Buffet Rouge: History in Colours
By Rachel Vincent-Clarke, Communications and Collections Assistant, McGill Visual Arts Collection In a room on the main floor of Birks building, the home of the School of Religious Studies, hangs a vibrant still life painting by French expressionist artist Bernard …
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Out of Harm’s Way : Second World War scrapbooks shine a light on the experience of evacuee children brought to Quebec
La version française suit By Elis Ing, Liaison Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections During the Second World War, Marjorie Kathleen Tovey, headmistress of a small independent school in Hertfordshire, England, decided to evacuate her students to Canada, just as …
A monumental scan : Nobbs’ Bird’s-Eye View of McGill University
La version française suit By Greg Houston, Digitization Administrator & New Media Administrator Since its inception in 1996, the library digitization lab — formerly the Digital Collection Program — has captured and provided access to millions of pages and objects …
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#adventuresincataloguing : retracing the lived history of books
La version française suit By Megan Chellew, Coordinator, Cataloguing & Metadata; Robin Desmeules, Rare Books Cataloguer and Anna Dysert, Rare Books Cataloguer The practice of cataloguing rare books goes beyond simply describing the title and contents of a particular object. …
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A Mirror of Jane Austen’s Reading Library
– What was Jane Austen reading? Several university classes this semester have explored this question by means of a dedicated display case in Rare Books and Special Collections. Shakespeare – Bacon – Hume – Johnson – Burney – Voltaire – Rousseau …
Take McGill’s hidden gems home with Ex Libris
This September, McGill launched a capital campaign and a new branding vision for the university. The fall of 2020 promises even more excitement as McGill’s bicentennial festivities get underway. As we look back and forward, this is a perfect moment …
Celebrating 65 years of the Beatty Lecture
This evening Dr. Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most influential and beloved advocates for nature conservation, will deliver the 2019 Beatty Lecture. Forty years after her first Beatty Lecture in 1979, Dr. Goodall returns to talk about the critical need …
Sir John Franklin held here
Rare Books and Special Collections of the McGill Library owns signed material by one of the most talked about ship Captains ever to exist: Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). These are exciting relics in light of the recent discoveries by the …
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