Alisa Nosova sitting at a desk, smiling at the camera.

Student Spotlight: Alisa Nosova at the Dean’s Office (Communications)

Student employment in the McGill Library benefits the entire McGill community. At 135 strong this academic year, McGill Library student workers gain valuable work experience while engaging in academic pursuits. Student navigators, curatorial interns, special project assistants and student researchers …

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March 4, 2022

Students wearing masks and red McGill24 hats standing in front of the Library.

McGill Students, Our Forever Reason

By Colleen Cook, Trenholme of Libraries, McGill Library McGill24, the University’s annual day of giving, is back Wednesday, March 9, 2022. This year, as we celebrate 200 years of McGill, we’re also looking at our why. Everyone has a unique reason …

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March 3, 2022

Couched in Unintelligibility: Agonies of The Times

By Ronny Litvack-Katzman, Research Assistant, ROAAr Numbers, letters, and pseudonyms, reversed text, symbols, and foreign language words –the most infamous encrypted agony ads contained all these and more. Throughout the 19th century, ciphers and codes were a covert means for …

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February 28, 2022

Student Spotlight: Mathem Maluak at McLennan-Redpath

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February 24, 2022

Ephemeral expressions in the Madeleine Parent fonds

The finding aid for the Madeleine Parent fonds is now available on McGill’s Archival Collections Catalogue. The fonds of the labour and social activist holds countless narratives, from Parent’s union work and writings to the history of Canadian unionism. Moreover, …

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February 23, 2022

A heartfelt thank you to McGill student leadership!

Student employment. Extended hours. Quiet pods. Open education resources. Reading nooks. 3D printers. Destress zones. Laptop lending kiosks. Video recording studios. The list goes on and on. The Library could not do what we do without the support of McGill …

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February 18, 2022

Princess Henry of Battenberg reads the newspaper aloud to Queen Victoria in “A Glimpse of the Queen’s Home Life.” From the Illustrated London News (26 January 1901): 130. Illustrated London News / Gale Digital Scholar Lab

A whole romance contained in four little lines: Introducing the Agony Column

by Ronny Litvack-Katzman, Research Assistant, ROAAr “A whole romance contained in four little lines”, “seven words [that] gave a three volume novel in a nutshell” — such are the descriptions that 19th-century commentators gave to the collection of personal advertisements …

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February 17, 2022

Campus Royalty

We spoke with royalty for this week’s episode of Voices from The Footnotes, our ROAAr library podcast. McGill royalty to be precise. Step back in time to 1949, 1951 and 1958, as Beryl Rapier, Dorothy Baxter and Rae Tucker Rambally …

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February 8, 2022

Open Access Deal- Institute of Physics (IOP)

This winter is full of great open access news. Following on the heels of the Cambridge open access deal, we are excited to announce an OA agreement with the Institute of Physics (IOP). This agreement allows corresponding authors publishing in …

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February 7, 2022

Zoomed in detail on wide tree view of new Archival Collections Catalogue interface.

Archival Collections Catalogue interface tweaked for increase ease of use

by Anna Dysert, Associate Librarian, Archives and Manuscripts/Special Collections, Collection Services The McGill Library Archival Collections Catalogue has switched over to a more user-friendly interface to help users navigate archival descriptions. The fresh look will allow researchers to better visualize the relationships between records in a fonds or collection and move between record descriptions. …

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February 2, 2022