McGill University Archives’ Spatial Artifacts
50 years ago, the Apollo 11 crew completed their mission. The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. It would have taken 8 years for NASA to complete this goal set …
New SSHRC Funding for The Riddle Project
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council has granted support to the project over the next two years to investigate this new genre from an interdisciplinary angle. The team, led by Nathalie Cooke, Associate Dean of ROAAr, includes an energetic …
The Gwillim Project Receives Major SSHRC Funding
The 2019 results are in! The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has poured research funding into a new Partnership Development Grant based out of the McGill Library’s Blacker Wood Collection. The Gwillim Project centres around the …The Gwillim Project Receives Major SSHRC Funding Read More »
Karis Shearer awarded Raymond Klibansky Research Travel Grant
The McGill Library welcomes Dr. Karis Shearer to our Rare Books and Special Collections reading room! Dr. Shearer is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus) where she directs …Karis Shearer awarded Raymond Klibansky Research Travel Grant Read More »
Art Wins the Day: Roussil’s ‘Danse de la Paix’ at McGill
“Ceremony provides the climax to a controversy dating from 1949,” proclaimed the Friday, October 2nd, 1992 edition of The Montreal Gazette. That day, as part of Open House weekend at McGill, and in conjunction with Montreal’s 350th anniversary, La Danse …Art Wins the Day: Roussil’s ‘Danse de la Paix’ at McGill Read More »
Not a bad “Impression”: a fine Rembrandt Print in McGill’s Collection
This is an excerpt from the article entitled “Not a bad “Impression”: a fine Rembrandt Print in McGill’s Collection” written by Maria L. Brendel. It was first published in Fontanus, Vol 10 (1998). In 1919 McGill received a seventeenth-century print …Not a bad “Impression”: a fine Rembrandt Print in McGill’s Collection Read More »
Isabella McLennan & McLennan Travelling Libraries
This is an excerpt from the article entitled “Isabella Christine McLennan” written by Rosemary Turpin. It was first published in Fontanus, Women in the University Issue, Vol 8 (1995). Isabella Christine McLennan, who, in spite of the fact that she …Isabella McLennan & McLennan Travelling Libraries Read More »
Let’s celebrate! 2019 McGill Library Excellence Awards
Huge congratulations are in order for the 2019 recipients of the McGill Library Excellence Awards recognizing outstanding contributions to the Library, its users and its mandate. On May 22, 2019, Katherine Hanz, Liaison Librarian for the School of Information Studies and …Let’s celebrate! 2019 McGill Library Excellence Awards Read More »
