Libraries events
Amy Buckland & Ed Bilodeau - Digitizing Chapbooks
McGill Librarians Amy Buckland & Ed Bilodeau will discuss the methods and process of digitizing McGill’s large and growing early modern chapbooks. All are welcome
Mossman Lecture: You Are What You Eat, Historical Changes in Ideas about Food and Identity
The Mossman Endowment presents the D Lorne Gales Lecture in the History of Science featuring guest lecturer Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Professor, History of Science, Harvard University
Shakespeare in 3D: An Actor's Point of View
Friends of the McGill Library in collaboration with the Stratford Festival presents the Annual Shakespeare Lecture featuring Seana McKenna.Seana McKenna is considered by many to be Canada's finest dramatic actress of her generation. 2013 marks Seana McKenna’s 22nd season at the Stratford Festival. This season Ms. McKenna is playing Elizabeth in Mary Stuart and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit. Past roles at Stratford include: title role in Richard
Exhibit: Flights of Fancy: Illustrated Children's Books and the Sheila R. Bourke Collection
Accessible during opening hours. Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm. Location: Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room Alcove, 4th floor, McLennan Library Building Curated by: Lindsey Skeen, McGill School of Information Studies (GLIS 689 – Selected Topics) Supervised by: Professor P.F. McNally and Ms. Sharon Rankin
Exhibit | Exposition: An Intellectual Heritage: Rediscovering McGill’s Early Printed Works | Un héritage intellectuel : à la découverte des imprimés anciens de McGill
Curators: Ann-Marie Hansen & Kristin Neel, Inventaires des imprimés anciens au Québec, McGill University With the collaboration of Ann Marie Holland & Dr. Richard Virr, Rare Books & Special Collections, McGill Library & Professor Frédéric Charbonneau, Département de langue littérature françaises, McGill University ~ This exhibition represents a sample of the printed works that have been analyzed, catalogued and made available for public consultation by the Inventaire des imprimés anciens au Québec (IMAQ) group at McGill University, since 2010.
Ancienne collection de François Olivier–Martin : Histoire du droit français des origines à la Révolution
In 1958, McGill acquired the personal library of a renowned French legal historian, François Olivier-Martin (1879-1952), with the funds generously donated by a former McGill graduate, Arnold Wainwright.
