Recent Posts
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Thu Aug 16th, 2018
مدونة مكتبة الدراسات الاسلامية في جامعة مكغيل
Egyptian Caricatures Archive / أرشيف الكاريكاتير المصري
The French Centre for Economic, Legal, and Social Study and Documentation (CEDEJ) based in Cairo launched in May 2018 in association with Bibliotheca Alexandrina a new... MORE ► -
Thu Jul 26th, 2018
The Turret
A little piece of Schulich Library goes to China!
One of the main reasons I love working at McGill is the opportunity to interact with amazing students and staff who are doing exciting projects that could potentially ... MORE ► -
Sat Jul 7th, 2018
The McLennan Post
Summer Days…
…and the reading is easy! What do you read in the summer? Is summer the time for light literature? Is it your chance to catch up on unread classics and recent bes... 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 ► -
Mon Mar 12th, 2018
Law Library Blog
New “Well-being Collection” at the Law Library
In 2016, we started a “de-stress zone” at the Law Library, where we provide puzzles for students to help them relax. This initiative has been very successful with ... 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 ► -
Tue Oct 24th, 2017
Flipside: behind the scenes at the Marvin Duchow Music Library
The Score's the Thing: Humour and the Absurd in the Music of Brian Cherney: new exhibit
The Marvin Duchow Music Library’s latest exhibition entitled, The Score’s the Thing: Humour and the Absurd in the Music of Brian Cherney celebrates the Canadian co... 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 ► -
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 ►