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The Lande Legacy and the Art of Building Rare Book Collections

By: McGill Libraries April 22, 2025 Features Features Newsletter Newsletter
Receipt for bags of potatoes, Abraham Pastorius, Montreal, 1802. Lande John Law Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Libraries.

La version française suit By: Chris Lyons, Senior Curator, Rare Books & Special Collections (retired) Rare books libraries collect collectors. At first this might sound like a mercenary or macabre way to describe the work of the earnest curators responsible …

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Digitization Grant Update: George Mercer Dawson

By: McGill Libraries December 16, 2021 Features Features From the Stacks From the Stacks ROAAr ROAAr

By Alex Kohn, Digital Collections & Copyright Librarian As we reported back in May, we are the fortunate recipients of a grant from the British Columbia History Digitization Program, which has allowed us to digitize over 1,586 items (letters and …

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