2nd Edition – ROAAr Monthly Screen-Share
Spring cleaning your digital desktop? Why not try a new screensaver! ROAAr invites you to check LibraryMatters regularly to download a high-quality image from our free monthly screen-share. We invite you to use it as a background for your desktop or cellphone, or …De-Stress + Sketch with the Visual Arts Collection
By Rosalind Sweeney-McCabe, ARIA Intern, McGill Visual Arts Collection This past December the Visual Arts Collection launched its first De-Stress + Sketch on-campus event on the fourth floor of McLennan, home to the VAC’s Visible Storage Gallery. The initiative, developed …De-Stress + Sketch with the Visual Arts Collection Read More »
Our history by the numbers: McGill Library’s collection over time
Almost every year for many decades, McGill Library staff have completed statistical surveys for the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and other organizations. These statistical surveys ask …Our history by the numbers: McGill Library’s collection over time Read More »
Helping Hands: Uncovering an Eighteenth-century Midwifery Manual
Par: Mme Margaret Carlyle, Université de Chicago, mcarlyle@uchicago.edu, (Titulaire de la bourse de voyage Marie Louis Nickerson, Bibliothèque Osler d’histoire de la médecine) The Osler Library of the History of Medicine’s recent acquisition of the French-language Abbrégé de l’art des accouchemens (The Art …Helping Hands: Uncovering an Eighteenth-century Midwifery Manual Read More »
Competing For the Madeline: The Early History of Women’s Basketball at McGill
In 1891, during his first year as a teacher at the YMCA training school in Springfield Massachusetts, McGill alumni Dr. James Naismith invented basketball. Originally envisioned as a game for Naismith’s male pupils, American women began playing basketball as early …Competing For the Madeline: The Early History of Women’s Basketball at McGill Read More »