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From Enssib to McGill Libraries: An interview with Paloma Juno

La version française suit. This fall, McGill University Libraries welcomed Paloma Juno, a student from l’École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (Enssib) in Lyon, France, for an enriching international internship. Her time at McGill came at …

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January 26, 2026

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New program for community groups: Partner with McGill Libraries to digitize your heritage collections!

We’re excited to announce the launch of Community Digitization Partnerships, a new initiative from McGill Libraries’ Digitization Lab. These partnerships are designed to support Quebec-based community organizations, cultural institutions, and academic collaborators in preserving and sharing their heritage collections. Through this program, we’re offering two new …

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January 19, 2026

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Keeping McGill’s digital collections running smoothly: A Libraries IT-Services collab

La version française suit Beginning in early 2024, McGill Libraries and IT Services faced an unexpected challenge: an overwhelming surge of automated web traffic directed at two of the Libraries’ major public platforms – eScholarship institutional digital repository for theses …

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January 19, 2026

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Get Involved in Sustainable Change at McGill Libraries

by Jenn Riley, Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives Do you care about environmental, social, and economic sustainability? Do you value the services and collections provided by the McGill Libraries? What if you could advance both at the same time? The McGill Libraries is seeking up …

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January 13, 2026

Charcoal and graphite sketches from Hugh McLennan student work fonds

Notes from the Archive: A Summer with Architecture

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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January 6, 2026

McGill Libraries Word Search fun!

We’ve put together a McGill Libraries themed word search that celebrates the people, places, and services that support research, learning, and discovery across our campuses. Whether you’re home stealing a quiet moment between festivities or away on a beach somewhere …

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December 24, 2025

Mrs. G.A. Wendt holding skis, Mount Royal (1921)

Explore the Quebec skiing history collection

A newly highlighted collection at McGill Libraries captures this rich history of skiing in Montreal and Quebec during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection consists of photographs, hotel advertisements and informational pamphlets, postcards, and ephemera illustrating the …

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December 22, 2025

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Brilliant Blues for Winter Days

By Octavian Sopt, Senior Documentation Technician, Rare Books and Special Collections At the onset of gray winter weather, I think about the multitude of vibrant colors that filled the exhibition cases in the 4th floor lobby of the McLennan Library …

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December 16, 2025

A Noble Fragment

We had the great pleasure of chatting over a video conference call with author and journalist Michael Visontay, residing in Sydney, Australia, following the release of his most recent book Noble Fragments. It recounts the riveting story of Gabriel Wells, …

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December 11, 2025

Holiday Remix | Rover’s Dinner Party

La version française suit. This festive scene is taken from Rover’s Dinner Party, was a part of the Aunt Louisa’s Toy Books series, published by Frederick Warne & Co. in the mid-to-late 19th century. This popular line of illustrated children’s books blended entertainment …

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December 8, 2025