Dr. Jessica Stacey on Voltaire
Dr. Jessica Stacey is a recipient of the 2019 Raymond Klibansky Collection Research Travel Grant, awarded to pursue research with McGill’s Voltaire Collection. At the McGill Library last autumn, I was putting the finishing touches on a foreword to the …
Launch | The McGill Library Orientation Game – “Raising Spirits: A Timely Diversion”
As we all prepare for a virtual fall semester, the McGill library is offering an innovative activity to welcome new, current, and former McGillians back to campus, even if only in spirit. We hope to draw everyone back from afar with the aid of their computers: to …Launch | The McGill Library Orientation Game – “Raising Spirits: A Timely Diversion” Read More »
Data sets from McGill’s digital collections now available for text-mining and data-intensive research
By Alexandra Kohn, Head, Copyright Office Collections as Data is a movement in the cultural heritage sector to make our collections machine-actionable and available at scale for data-intensive research. Inspired by the Institute of Museum and Library Service-funded project Always …
What I Wish I Knew, My Advice to You…
By Camille Blaise, 2020 McGill Faculty of Arts graduate and Communications Assistant at the McGill Library While student life looks different right now, by the time some of you are in your graduating year (trust me it goes by fast), …
4th Edition – ROAAr Monthly Screen Share
Updating 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 monthlyscreen-share. We invite you to use it as a background for your desktop or cellphone, or print …
Emancipation Day and painful legacies in the teaching of science, medicine, and art
What does Emancipation Day have to do with the Osler Library? Superficially, not much. Peel back the layers of the history of medicine, though, and the relevance becomes clear. For centuries, medicine has been used to generate and perpetuate ideas …Emancipation Day and painful legacies in the teaching of science, medicine, and art Read More »
“The Basic You Remains”: Rita Letendre’s Painting
By Madeline Holton, Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative (ISCEI) Research Assistant Rita Letendre’s expressive, abstract painting hangs in the Visible Storage Gallery on McLennan’s fourth floor, accompanied by the work of a number of other Indigenous artists including Benjamin …“The Basic You Remains”: Rita Letendre’s Painting Read More »
Canadian Flowers Week
July is the month of luxurious bloom and gorgeous, showy flowers. It’s also Canadian Flowers Week from July 16-22, “an annual advocacy, education and awareness campaign that celebrates Canadian grown flowers” associated with the Toronto Flower Market. Its main goal …
