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The Lande Legacy and the Art of Building Rare Book Collections

Receipt for bags of potatoes, Abraham Pastorius, Montreal, 1802. Lande John Law Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Libraries.

La version française suit By: Chris Lyons, Senior Curator, Rare Books & Special Collections (retired) Rare books libraries collect collectors. At first this might sound like a mercenary or macabre way to describe the work of the earnest curators responsible …

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Practicum Pause: Ezra J. Teboul

Cover 1986 catalogue Mossman Collection of the History of Science and Ideas.

La version française suit For MISt student Ezra J. Teboul, a practicum at McGill Libraries was the perfect blend of history, technology, and librarianship. With a background in the history of signal processing and electronic music, Ezra was drawn to …

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McGill and Concordia Collaborate to Build AI Literacy

La version française suit In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, understanding Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is no longer optional—it’s essential. In late fall of 2024, McGill University Libraries, in partnership with Concordia Library and eConcordia, unveiled GenAI Quickstart: Foundations for …

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Backstory: A History of McGill Student Publications

McGill Daily Special Supplement May 1958

La version française suit. Originally published on August 4, 2017 in The Dark Room   Guest post by Annelise Dowd. Annelise is a graduate of the McGill University Master of Information Studies program who worked on a practicum project working with …

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Deborah Ahenkorah on Her Journey as a MISt Fellow & working at the Libraries

Deborah Ahenkorah

Lire la version française Deborah Ahenkorah is one of the first recipients of McGill University’s Master of Information Studies (MISt) Fellowship for Black Students, an initiative designed to support and amplify the voices of students of Black heritage in the …

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Métis Medicine: Indigenous Health at Schulich Library

Ressa McMullen in front of Arts Building

Lire la version française By Ressa McMullen*, IMPRESS intern 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 …

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Unveiling the Secret of Nancy Petry’s Bird of Paradise

by Sophie Becquet, McGill Visual Arts Collection Student Assistant (2024-) Lire la version française Nancy Petry is one of the few artists who attended the Bachelor of Fine Arts program during its brief existence at McGill University between 1948 and …

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A Few of Our Favourite Things

Lire la version française A happy cohort of undergraduate students were hired last term to devote their energies to systematically comb through a portion of the stacks in Rare Books and Special Collections in order to stabilize books most in …

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Paper as Art

Quan

By Michelle MacLeod, Assistant Curator, Visual Arts Collection and Serene Mitchell, Intern, Visual Arts Collection (2022) Lire la version française An artwork in the McGill Visual Arts Collection (VAC) that celebrates paper is Winter Joy by Chinese-Canadian Elizabeth Quan (1921-2016). In this …

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Early modern paper pop-ups in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine

Mary K.K. Hague-Yearl, Head Librarian, Osler Library of the History of Medicine Lire la version française How does one make an anatomical lesson come alive? To many medical academicians, the answer would be to attend or perform a dissection. For …

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