Recent Posts
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Mon Apr 19th, 2021
The McLennan Post
Redpath Book Display: Welcome to the Digital World!
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library presents our next book display: Welcome to the Digital World, where all the same wonders and struggles of life outside of th... MORE ► -
Thu Apr 15th, 2021
مدونة مكتبة الدراسات الاسلامية في جامعة مكغيل
A Page on Iranian History
Iranologie.com is created by Khodadad Rezakhani, a scholar of late antiquity and the early medieval period, mostly in West and Central Asia. He created this site with ... MORE ► -
Mon Apr 12th, 2021
Flipside: behind the scenes at the Marvin Duchow Music Library
Catching up at the (virtual) service desk with Professor Hank Knox
This series features Schulich School of Music faculty presenting a selectionof books and music that they are exploring – for edification, inspiration, ordistraction ... MORE ► -
Tue Apr 6th, 2021
The Turret
April is citizen science month
It is April and spring is in the air in Montreal. While it might be too late for us to collect data on local skating rinks for RinkWatch, there are a multitude of scie... MORE ► -
Wed Feb 24th, 2021
Nahum Gelber Law Library Blog
À la découverte: La bibliothèque du Code civil de la province de Québec
Par: George Yeryomin, étudiant à la Faculté de droit de l'Université McGill, assistant de référence à la Bibliothèque Gelber Le droit civil en tant que trad... MORE ► -
Fri Jul 6th, 2018
Rare Books and Special Collections at McGill
The RBSC blog has moved!
We've moved our blog over to Library Matters, where we will be posting content alongside our McGill Library colleagues. Reading Room of the Redpath Library in 189... MORE ► -
Mon Jun 18th, 2018
De re medica
We're moving!
A charlatan speaking to a crowd. Donation of Mr. William H. Helfand. The Osler Library Prints Collection. Image # OPF001044. De re medica is moving and we promis... MORE ► -
Mon Mar 19th, 2018
Management at the Library
Update
I'll be leaving McGill at the end of March to take a position at the MacOdrum Library at Carleton University in Ottawa. Accordingly, I won't be updating this blog a... MORE ► -
Thu Dec 21st, 2017
The Dark Room
2017 year in review: Digitization
As 2017 comes to a close, the McGill Library has become the forefront in digitization. Not only has the library embarked on more systematic digitization projects, it h... MORE ► -
Wed Jun 28th, 2017
APPpropos - The McGill Library Mobile Apps Blog
Google Translate to the rescue
Screencap of Google Translate in action (speech recognition from English to Italian) This spring, when my cousin asked me to quickly translate my uncle's eulogy ... MORE ► -
Tue Apr 8th, 2014
The Chapbook Digitization Project
Celebrating the Digitization of McGill Library’s Chapbook Collection: An exhibition of British and American chapbooks
Celebrating the Digitization of McGill Library’s Chapbook Collection: An exhibition of British and American chapbooks This exhibition celebrates the creation of the... MORE ►