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Mon Sep 26th, 2016
The Turret
Fall 2015 writing recognition award winner
Congratulations goes to William Bouchard, winner of the Communication in Engineering Writing Recognition Award! His paper was the best of those submitted in the 2015... MORE ► -
Fri Sep 23rd, 2016
مدونة مكتبة الدراسات الاسلامية في جامعة مكغيل
Bibliotheca Alexandrina digital assets repository
Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria, Egypt) digital assets repository gives free access to more than 137 000 ebooks full-text, among which 24 000 are in Arabic. In add... MORE ► -
Thu Sep 22nd, 2016
De re medica
Alibert & Early French Dermatology
Clinique de L'Hopital Saint-Louis, de Traite Complet Des Maladies de la Peau, 1833. Unfortunately some evidence of water damage is visible, possibly from the 1907 fi... MORE ► -
Tue Sep 6th, 2016
APPpropos - The McGill Library Mobile Apps Blog
Out of space? Mobile-responsive sites won't take up storage on your device!
We've been seeing a growing trend for providers of e-resources (ejournals, ebooks, videos, and the like) to adapt the display of their content to mobile devices rather... MORE ► -
Fri Sep 2nd, 2016
Law Library Blog
De-stress Corner at the Law Library
If you already feel stressed about all the amount of reading that you have to do or anticipate with trepidation getting your assignments graded on a curve, the law lib... MORE ► -
Thu Aug 25th, 2016
Rare Books and Special Collections at McGill
The Library of David Hume
The Library of David Hume The Scottish philosopher, David Hume (1711-1776) has been the subject of special interest at McGill since the late 1940s, and McGill has o... MORE ► -
Thu Jul 21st, 2016
Management at the Library
Mid-summer update
It has been quite some time since I posted anything to this blog, but given that we're about half-way through our summer and my planning for the fall semester is in fu... MORE ► -
Fri Jun 17th, 2016
Flipside: behind the scenes at the Marvin Duchow Music Library
50th Conference of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections: Recorded Sound in the Twenty-First Century: Preserving, Collecting, Collaborating, Connecting.
For a few days in May, as spring was just beginning to show its colours in Montreal, I had the pleasure and honour of attending the 50th Association of Recorded Sound ... MORE ► -
Fri Apr 29th, 2016
McGill Library and Archives feedback blog
McGill students accompanied by minor dependents
You said: I am writing to express my dismay over an incident that occurred at the McLennan Library over the Easter Weekend. I went to the library on Good Friday ... MORE ► -
Wed Apr 13th, 2016
The Dark Room
New Online: The Favorite: A journal of amusing and useful reading
83 issues of the The Favorite: A journal of amusing and useful reading published by George Edouard Desbarats (Montreal) from 1873-1874 are now available for reading an... MORE ► -
Wed Mar 18th, 2015
The McLennan Post
MyArts Research: Library Skills for Success
Hello everyone! My name is Alexandra, and I am a graduate student at McGill’s School of Information Studies. I am currently in the process of completing a practic... MORE ► -
Thu Dec 4th, 2014
McGill Library News & Events
Last post on McGill Library News & Events blog
Please note: As of December 4, 2014, please see Library news & events for the latest announcement and event infomration. The McGill Library News & Events blog ... MORE ► -
Thu Oct 2nd, 2014
E-Science Institute @ McGill
A world of possibilities
This past summer, McGill Library staff members got together to participate in an exercise introduced at the 2014 E-Science Institute capstone event. Everyone was ask... 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 ►