Updated: Wed, 10/02/2024 - 13:45

From Saturday, Oct. 5 through Monday, Oct. 7, the Downtown and Macdonald Campuses will be open only to McGill students, employees and essential visitors. Many classes will be held online. Remote work required where possible. See Campus Public Safety website for details.


Du samedi 5 octobre au lundi 7 octobre, le campus du centre-ville et le campus Macdonald ne seront accessibles qu’aux étudiants et aux membres du personnel de l’Université McGill, ainsi qu’aux visiteurs essentiels. De nombreux cours auront lieu en ligne. Le personnel devra travailler à distance, si possible. Voir le site Web de la Direction de la protection et de la prévention pour plus de détails.

Publications

AMAZE; A McGill A to Z Experience

 
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A is for anatomy, alphabet and AMAZE: A McGill A-Z Experience. In 2020, the McGill Library put together a truly remarkable book – AMAZE; a McGill A-Z Experience. With visual treats and moveable surprises at the turn of every page, AMAZE inspires interactive moments of wonder with McGill’s extraordinary collections. Brilliant paper engineers from Papersmyths breathed life into 26 alphabetical wonders from the Library’s rare and special collections. Artworks, graphics, books, manuscripts, even physical objects leap from the page in this moveable, interactive book.

Edited by Nathalie Cooke, Hannah Deskin, Jennifer Garland, Greg Houston, Elis Ing, and Christopher Lyons. Paper engineering, Papersmyths. McGill University Library and Archives, 2021, Montreal. ISBN: 978-1-77096-226-2 (Hardcover)

Price: $49.99

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Annual reports

 
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The Library's Annual Report is a comprehensive description of the library's activities and achievements throughout the preceding year.

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Fontanus

 
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In the tradition of university library based journals, Fontanus offered a forum for scholarly articles based in whole or part on the archival, library, rare book, and museum collections of McGill University.

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In Focus

 
Library In Focus Fall 2009

InFocus newsletter highlights the Library's accomplishments, donors and stories.

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Library Matters

 
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The Library Matters @ McGill newsletter is published bi-monthly and seeks to exchange and encourage ideas, innovations and information from McGill Library staff at all levels.

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Many Women, Many Voices

 
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Curators. Activists. Hockey Players. Students. Medical Illustrators. Secretaries. Portrait Artists. Sculptors.

Many Women, Many Voices celebrates the voices of women in all of those roles and many more. Shining a light on the untold stories of the women who have shaped McGill and Montreal, it offers illustrated vignettes from the ROAAr collections – Rare Books and Special Collections, the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, the Visual Arts Collection, and the McGill University Archives.

Edited by Nathalie Cooke, Frédéric Giuliano, Christopher Lyons, Gwendolyn Owens, Jacquelyn Sundberg, Mary Hague-Yearl. McGill University Library and Archives, 2018, Montreal. ISBN: 978-1-77096-224-8 (softcover)

Price: $25.95

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Marginalia

 
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A series of short guides to collections and material in the holdings of Rare Books and Special Collections.

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Meetings with Books: Special Collections in the 21st Century

 
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This book grew out of the symposium “Meetings with Books: Raymond Klibansky, Special Collections and the Library in the 21st Century,” held at McGill University, March 20, 2013. Meetings with Books includes: a historical survey of McGill’s special collections; a tribute to humanist scholar and book collector Raymond Klibansky; short essays on how historical book collections connect with current forms and directions in teaching, research, and learning in the digital age; and a keynote address by writer, anthologist, and essayist Alberto Manguel. The essays are complemented by a selection of more than fifty illustrated vignettes, highlighting the range and types of special collections at McGill University Library and Archives. Edited by: Jillian Tomm and Richard Virr

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Special Collections Biannual Newsletter

 
 

Stories and in-depth articles from McGill Libraries' distinctive collections. Edited by Jacquelyn Sundberg and Merika Ramundo

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