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Creative Writing in the Gallery: Lost in Marian Dale Scott’s Concrete Jungle

By Hugo Barsacq-Camard, McGill Visual Arts Collection Student Assistant, 2022-2025 Montreal artist Marian Dale Scott (1906-1993) was a pioneer of Canadian modern art, changing and adapting her art style and techniques across a seventy-year career. In 1934, having recently started …

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“Drawing” Connections: Renoir’s Possible Inspirations for Apollo and Daphne and Standing Female Nude

By Julia Widing, McGill Visual Arts Collection Student Assistant, 2024 In 2017, the McGill Visual Arts Collection acquired something special from donor Katherine Smalley: a page from the sketchbook of a young Auguste Pierre Renoir (1841-1919). Renoir, famous for leading …

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By You, For You | Student Support and McGill Libraries

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Students are at the heart of McGill Libraries. This Giving Tuesday, and always, we celebrate student society support that helps improve services, collections, and spaces at McGill through the years. Recent projects supported by students have included student employment, extended …

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Who Were the First? The Accomplishments of Women at McGill in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Portrait of Dr. Barbara Althea Jones

The Indigenous Mentorship and Paid Research Experience for Summer Students (IMPRESS) offers Indigenous undergraduate students from McGill or other Quebec post-secondary institutions, a unique experiential learning opportunity to conduct research with a McGill professor, or to work on a project at one …

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A Summer with McGill archival collections: Enhancing Information Accessibility Through Historical Research & Language Digitization Projects

Leah Louttit-Bunker in front of her poster illustrating her research.

The Indigenous Mentorship and Paid Research Experience for Summer Students (IMPRESS) offers Indigenous undergraduate students from McGill or other Quebec post-secondary institutions, a unique experiential learning opportunity to conduct research with a McGill professor, or to work on a project …

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Celebrate Homecoming 2024 at the Libraries

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Make the Libraries your happy place during Homecoming! (Re)connect with the McGill community this fall with a masterclass, special events, branch tours, exhibits and more. Our 2024 Homecoming programming has something for everyone! Masterclass | Be a partner in your …

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Timeless Core: Library student handbooks 90 years apart

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By Ardyne Cara Aguilar, Student Marketing Projects Assistant at the McGill Libraries and U2 student in the Faculty of Arts, majoring in Psychology with double minors in Behavioral Science and Management. As the new academic year unfolds, McGill University is …

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T is for Turn-up Book

unfolded turn-up book

By Prof. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Penn State, Video by Jacquelyn Sundberg, McGill Libraries What is a turn-up book? A brief history A turn-up book is an interactive booklet that has been engaged with by children and adults from the mid-17th century …

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Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Fair Use

by Jocelyn Campo, McGill Visual Arts Collection ARIA Intern (2023), Museum Database Assistant (2023-2024), Class of 2024 As a lover of contemporary art, I was intrigued by the McGill University Visual Art Collection’s array of large-scale tapestries. I walk by …

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Celebrating winners of the 2024 McGill Library Excellence Awards

Mary Hague-Yearl and Bozena Latincic holding framed awards.

La version française suit. Congratulations go out to Mary Hague-Yearl & Bozena Latincic, recipients of the 2024 Library Excellence Awards! The Osler Library of the History of Medicine, named in honor of the renowned physician, McGill graduate, and professor Sir …

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