“My friend has a manuscript. Will you read it?” and other FAQs

by Janet Blachford, Past President, Friends of the McGill Library Sarah MacLachlan’s 2015 Hugh MacLennan Memorial Lecture, given with expert knowledge, many photographs, and easy humour to a full house in Leacock 232, centred on the history of the House of …

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May 8, 2015

Practicum Pause: an interview with Kate Rozon

During the winter 2015 term, McGill Library & Archives welcomed several practicum students from the McGill School of Information Studies (SIS). The SIS website outlines the practicum experience as a 3 credit academic elective course in which master’s-level students participate in field practice …

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May 5, 2015

Image: Looking down from the McLennan stairs

McLennan: Upstairs/Downstairs

Special blog post by Robin Clark, Student Marketing Projects Assistant, McGill Library & Archives Working in the library as a McGill Work Study student has been a very interesting experience. To be perfectly honest, I did not know what to …

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April 24, 2015

2015 Hugh MacLennan Memorial Lecture: Sarah MacLachlan, House of Anansi President & Publisher

On Tuesday, April 28 at 5:30pm in Leacock 232, join McGill University Library & Archives and the Friends of the Library as Sarah MacLachlan, House of Anansi President & Publisher, speaks about the realities of publishing in the age of …

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April 13, 2015

Video now available: Faculty symposium on the future of academic research libraries

Thank you to everyone who attended the McGill Library & Archives’ Faculty symposium on the future of research libraries! We received lots of positive feedback from audience members who enjoyed the breadth and depth of the themes explored. The individual remarks, panel …

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March 25, 2015

Informal talk with Alberto Manguel now online

by Ann Vroom, Chair, Friends of the McGill Library It was a sold-out crowd at the Friends of the Library evening March 12, 2015 at our event On Reading, Writing and Fiddling with Words: an Informal Talk with Alberto Manguel. …

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March 19, 2015

Redpath Library Building, Old McGill Yearbook, 1962

March 18: Faculty symposium on the future of academic research libraries

McGill Library and Archives is proud to be hosting McGill’s first ever (to our knowledge) Faculty symposium on the future of academic research libraries. Our visionary speakers have over 100 years of collective knowledge and leadership expertise within the fields …

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March 12, 2015

On Reading, Writing and Fiddling with Words: An Informal Talk with Alberto Manguel

On Thursday, March 12 at 6pm in Rare Books & Special Collections (McLennan Library Building – 4th floor), join McGill University Library & Archives and the Friends of the Library for this special talk as we celebrate the publication of Meetings with Books: …

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February 27, 2015

An invitation: WWI Vernissage & special talk with Dr. Desmond Morton

Can’t attend on the 25th? Catch both exhibits during opening hours in the McLennan Library Building from February 26 – June 15, 2015. Exhibit information for We will remember them: The No. 3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) in the First World …

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February 6, 2015

Recent public lecture given by Alberto Manguel now available online

On Tuesday, October 14, at 6pm in the Birks Reading Room, McGill visiting scholar Alberto Manguel gave a special public lecture titled “Sherlock Holmes in Buenos Aires: Borges & the detective story”. The lecture can now be viewed on the …

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January 7, 2015