Staff

Librarians

christopher.lyons [at] mcgill.ca (Christopher Lyons) 514-398-4708
Head Librarian
Curatorial responsibilities:

• Canadiana, including: the Lawrence Lande Collection of Canadiana, the Rodolphe Joubert Collection on French Canada, the Canadian Pamphlet Collection, and Canadian trade catalogues
• Canadian literature (published)
• Sports, including the Olympics
• Twentieth century history

Jennifer Garland 514-398-4785
Assistant Head Librarian 
Curatorial responsibilities:

• Blackader-Lauterman Collection of Architecture & Art (and affiliated collections: Prints, Photographs, Postcards, Illustrated Books, Thomas Bewick, William Blake, Max Stern)
• John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection (and affiliated material, including Expo '67 Collection)
• Manuscripts: Cuneiform tablets; Ancient Greek, Islamic (with Anais Salamon), Near Eastern, and Indian

ann.holland [at] mcgill.ca (Ann Marie Holland) 514-398-4707
Curatorial responsibilities:

• William Colgate History of Printing Collection, including publisher’s series, chapbooks
• Enlightenment Collections, including: Voltaire, Rousseau, Hume, and Burney
• Napoleon Collection
• Medieval Manuscripts & Incunabula 
• Redpath Tract Collection
• Raymond Klibansky Collection
• Shakespeare Collection
• Canadiana: New France, Historical Tourist Guides, and Arctic Exploration 

Elis.Ing [at] mcgill.ca (Elis Ing) 514-398-7172
Curatorial responsibilities:

• Archival collections
• Children's and juvenile literature (including: the Sheila R. Bourke Collection; the Norman Friedman Boy Scout Collection; the Soviet Children’s Book Collection)
• Rosalynde Stearn Puppet Collection
• Cookbooks and menus
• Judaica collections (including: the Saul Shapiro Collection of Anglo-American Judaica; the Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry; the Lewin Collection)
• Joseph N. Nathanson Collection of Lincolniana
• 20th century popular print culture (including the Western and Cowboy Fiction Collection)
• Outdoor recreation literature (hunting, fishing)

Lauren.williams [at] mcgill.ca (Lauren Williams) 514-398-1364
Curatorial responsibilities:

• Blacker Wood Natural History Collection
• History of science
• William Dawson Pamphlet Collection
• Maps, including atlases and folded maps
• Women's studies
• Literature (playbills, theatre programmes)
• Macdonald College Rare Collection
• Indigenous studies 

Staff

melissa.como [at] mcgill.ca (Melissa Como) 514-398-4711
Head Library Clerk

octavian.sopt [at] mcgill.ca (Octavian Sopt) 514-398-7337
Senior Documentation Technician