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

Japanese print of people on a beach with water and trees

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

Bulwer, John. Philocophus, or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend : exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips ... apparently proving, that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue, 1648.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

by Jenn Riley, Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives and Andrea Miller-Nesbitt, Liaison Librarian at Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering December 3 is the annual International Day of Persons with Disabilities, as proclaimed in 1992 by the United …

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December 1, 2025

Person smiling at the camera from behind a green desk with a tag on it indicating student support.

Student support of McGill Libraries❤️

There aren’t enough emojis in the world to express our gratitude to student societies for their support of McGill Libraries. Students are at the heart of the Libraries and this Giving Tuesday (and always), we celebrate the many ways in …

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December 1, 2025

Year-End Roundup: 2025 Most Searched and Borrowed Resources

This year, thousands of community members clicked, streamed, borrowed, bookmarked, binged, and dove deep into our collections. Now it’s time to look back at the topics and resources that defined your year. Whether you’re cozying up at home or logging …

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December 1, 2025

Exaltation, The Ionkhisotha Ahsonthennékha Karáhkwa/Nookomis Giizis/Tipiskâwi-pîsim/Moon and The Mihkinâhk/Turtle Lunar Calendar

La version française suit By Aurora Rose Desjarlais (Nêhiyawak/Plains Cree First Nations, McGill Visual Arts Collection Intern, 2025-) A sculpture that has always caught my eye on McGill’s campus is Exaltation by Giovanni Porretta. It is located in the James Sculpture …

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November 25, 2025