McGill convocation through the years
The tent is up on McGill’s downtown campus and the convocation ceremonies are right around the corner. We’re taking a look back at the university’s convocations through the years with photos from our digitized collection of yearbooks, the McGill University Archives …
Saying goodbye to a beloved sculpture
Mahihkan, the larger-than-life and much-beloved sculpture of a wolf by Saskatchewan artist Joe Fafard, will be leaving McGill by mid-summer. Originally installed on lower campus for the Balade Pour La Paix, an open-air museum that spanned one kilometre of Sherbrooke …
Giovanna Badia and Merika Ramundo awarded the 2018 McGill Library Excellence Awards
Congrats to the recipients of the 2018 McGill Library Excellence Awards! The awards recognize outstanding contributions to the Library and its mandate. Liaison Librarian, Giovanna Badia received the Librarian Excellence Award and Communications Officer, Merika Ramundo was awarded the Library Staff …Giovanna Badia and Merika Ramundo awarded the 2018 McGill Library Excellence Awards Read More »
Nicholas Cronk on Voltaire at McGill
AN AMERICAN VOLTAIRE: The J. Patrick Lee Voltaire Collection at McGill By: Nicholas Cronk, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford University (le texte en français suit) Pat Lee, who died in 2006, was a life-enhancing friend as well as a Voltaire enthusiast and …
ROAAr newsletter: Spotlight: Latest Acquisitions at McGill
Ways of seeing: artistry on display in the Osler’s autumn acquisitions There is something about those eyes… at once alarmingly life-like and eerily anonymous. United in artistry and detailed craftsmanship, these four new acquisitions at the Osler Library of the …ROAAr newsletter: Spotlight: Latest Acquisitions at McGill Read More »
Ways of seeing: artistry on display in the Osler’s autumn acquisitions
La version française suit By Mary Yearl, Head Librarian, Osler Library of the History of Medicine There is something about those eyes. The variety of colour; the sizes that span human stages of growth. Their presence is at once alarmingly …Ways of seeing: artistry on display in the Osler’s autumn acquisitions Read More »
The Unknown Unknown: Finding the Jean Drapeau Collection
La version française suit By Chris Lyons, Head Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections — I think the most exciting part of my job as a rare book librarian is in discovering the “unknown unknowns,” to use Donald Rumsfeld’s turn …The Unknown Unknown: Finding the Jean Drapeau Collection Read More »
If These Buildings Could Walk: On a newly acquired Melvin Charney sculpture
La version française suit By Vanessa Di Francesco, Assistant Curator, McGill Visual Arts Collection — The idea that the built environments we inhabit can take on their own lives, acting apart from us or on our behalf, occupies our popular …If These Buildings Could Walk: On a newly acquired Melvin Charney sculpture Read More »
