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Fri Jan 15th, 2021
The McLennan Post
Privacy Workshops and Resources
Have you heard of the term "privacy paradox"? Simply put, it is a term that can be used to describe the inconsistency of privacy attitudes and privacy behaviour. In ot... MORE ► -
Fri Jan 15th, 2021
مدونة مكتبة الدراسات الاسلامية في جامعة مكغيل
Journals, magazines, and newspapers open access initiatives
The Egyptian Press Archive of CEDEJ The Egyptian Press Archive of CEDEJ is an initiative of the Centre d'Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Soc... MORE ► -
Mon Jan 4th, 2021
Nahum Gelber Law Library Blog
Accès à la Bibliothèque numérique Dalloz, grâce au Fonds Wainwright
La bibliothèque tient à remercier le Fonds Wainwright pour sa contribution à l'achat de deux accès simultanés à la Bibliothèque numérique Dalloz. Given the imp... MORE ► -
Thu Sep 17th, 2020
The Turret
Science Literacy Week goes virtual
Next week is Science Literacy Week! It is a week when we get together across the country to share our love of science, and at McGill Library we have a wonderful vir... MORE ► -
Fri Aug 7th, 2020
Flipside: behind the scenes at the Marvin Duchow Music Library
Radio and the Performing Arts
In May 2020, the annual conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) was set to take place in Montreal, along with an exhibition at the Music Li... 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 ►