All spaces in the McLennan-Redpath Complex are for quiet study EXCEPT for the following areas.
- Main floors of both the McLennan and Redpath Library Buildings
- The Cyberth猫que level in the Redpath Library Building
- Elevator landings in the McLennan Library Building聽
Thanks for doing your part to keep noise levels down in Quiet Zones.
Two major parallel infrastructure projects鈥攁 new Collections Centre and Fiat Lux will transform the quality of services and spaces the Library offers. Library staff members are preparing for the movement of collections, spaces, and services in advance of renovation and construction activities. Part of this process includes planning the movement of materials to the Collections Centre, which is currently under construction and scheduled to begin ingesting books in mid-2023 and be fully operational in early 2024.
Earlier this year, it was announced that it is now possible to opt in to retain and view your recent borrowing history in your 捆绑SM社区 Library account.听
Library users are also now able to view their recent search history. All users can view recent searches from their current browser session by clicking on the 鈥渟earch history鈥� link in the menu bar above the search results.
Did you miss our feature in Neuro Communications last month? Get to know our new librarian Sabrina Burr!
Updated August 31 at 8:45pm.
This technical issue has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
There's an issue affecting the Sofia Discovery Tool in which users may not be able to place holds.
Our partners at OCLC are working on a resolution and we'll keep you updated.
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
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After several years of reconstruction work, the Osler Library of the History of Medicine is set to reopen with full service on Monday, August 29, 2022. The Osler Library will be open Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
We would like to thank the 捆绑SM社区 community and scholar partners for their patience and collaboration during this renovation work.
As of Wednesday, August 24, significant changes will be made to the 捆绑SM社区 catalogue interface. As shown in the accompanying image, the dropdown menu for result sorting options that was located at the top of search results will now appear on the left panel with other search options such as grouping related editions and expanding searches. Also, the 鈥淕roup This Search鈥� accordion will display as collapsed by default and will read: 鈥淪earch Result Display鈥�. Last, the 鈥淩efine This Search鈥� accordion will now also display as collapsed by default and will read 鈥淓xpand This Search With鈥�.
Updated August 3.听This issue was resolved. Thank you for your understanding.
The 鈥淩eport a broken link鈥� feature is having technical issues and we are in the process of troubleshooting.
In the meantime, if you鈥檇 like to report a broken link in the Library catalogue, please email collections.library [at] mcgill.ca.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. We will keep you updated.
It is now possible to retain and view your recent borrowing history in your 捆绑SM社区 Library account. To protect your privacy, this option is disabled by default and records are retained for 5 months only.
To enable borrowing history on your account:
Starting on July 19, 2022, Oxford University Press will begin migrating its e-book content to their Platform (formerly Oxford Journals).
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First there was , then , and now North! The聽North/Nord Steering Committee is proud to announce the launch of its preservation initiative .听
The new ILL system is now live! Find out how to use it and how to view and manage your ILL requests.
Original post published June 13, 2022
Colombo, the system used for managing interlibrary loan (ILL) requests, will be replaced by a new system integrated into the Library鈥檚 (i.e. Library catalogue) beginning June 21, 2022.
On June 23, is becoming . All links to the current Scholars Portal Dataverse site will be redirected to the new site - borealisdata.ca.
Due to a water outage, the Macdonald Campus Library will be closed on Thursday, May 19, from 9 am to 1 pm.*
We apologize for any inconvenience.
*Note: The outage was originally scheduled for May 18 but will now take place on May 19.
