Recent Posts
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Fri Mar 7th, 2014
The Dark Room
List of Greek manuscripts in Escorial library of Spain
Jillian Tomm, Postdoctoral Fellow in Rare Books & Special Collections: "This short book provides a list of Greek manuscripts from the library of the sixteenth-c... MORE ► -
Fri Mar 7th, 2014
The Turret
Welcome Grace!
As April announced, this semester, the Turret will have a few new bloggers from the CCOM-206 class. The next new blogger I would like to welcome is Grace. She travelle... MORE ► -
Thu Mar 6th, 2014
Elemental Musings
Risks of using embeds in digital collection sites
This morning I read the news that Getty Images was going to start allowing people to use their images for free for non-commercial uses. This would be accomplished via ... MORE ► -
Thu Mar 6th, 2014
Rare Books and Special Collections at McGill
Politics and scholarly publishing in 1930s Germany: the Eckhart Latin edition
This volume of medieval theology offers a rare window into some of the difficulties encountered by scholars in Germany in the years leading up to the Second World War.... MORE ► -
Thu Mar 6th, 2014
مدونة مكتبة الدراسات الاسلامية في جامعة مك قيل
Film screening @ the ISL on March 10th!
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Mon Mar 3rd, 2014
The McLennan Post
Guest Post: Don't Be That Guy
Join us at our March workshops for Arts undergraduates! It’s March, and paper season has officially arrived, so here’s a piece of advice for Arts students. D... MORE ► -
Fri Feb 21st, 2014
E-Science Institute @ McGill
E-Science supplemental webinars
The recording for the E-Science Supplemental Webinar "Data Information Literacy Project" presented by Jake Carlson from Purdue University Libraries is now available. Y... MORE ► -
Thu Feb 13th, 2014
Law Library Blog
NEW Database: Global Health and Human Rights Database
Last fall, Lawyers Collective and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University in Washington DC have launched the Global Health ... MORE ► -
Fri Feb 7th, 2014
Management Matters
More fun with maps - SimplyMap
For those of you who've read my earlier post about visualizing data I commented on some free resources and tools available to retrieve visual representations of demog... MORE ► -
Thu Jan 23rd, 2014
De re medica
2013 Winners of the Osler Society and Osler Library Board of Curators Essay Contest
Osler Essay finalists with medal and Dr Del Maestro In 2013 the Board of Curators of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine together with the McGill Medica... MORE ► -
Wed Oct 2nd, 2013
The Chapbook Digitization Project
McGill Library's Chapbook Collection - Website Launched!
On August 15, 2013 the website was launched! Through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation, digital facsimiles of the Rare Books and Special Col... MORE ► -
Wed May 29th, 2013
Flipside: behind the scenes at the Marvin Duchow Music Library
Bonne fête Le sacre du printemps
Le sacre du printemps sketches by Valentine Gross-Hugo (1913) Le sacre du printemps, the brilliant, game-changing ballet that sprang from the collective efforts ... MORE ► -
Thu Jan 1st, 1970
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