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 …Keeping McGill’s digital collections running smoothly: A Libraries IT-Services collab Read More »
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 …Get Involved in Sustainable Change at McGill Libraries Read More »
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. …Notes from the Archive: A Summer with Architecture Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
