Archives & Research Collections

In June 2011, the University Librarian commissioned a review of the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections.  The review was triggered by the retirement of the Division&rsq

The University Library is pleased to announce that a new biography of John Connell (John Henry Robertson) has been published.

McMaster University has become the first Canadian institution to offer full access to videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, nearly 52,000 in all, contained in one of th

On May 25, President Patrick Deane and University Librarian Jeff Trzeciak hosted an event to celebrate Maestro Boris Brott’s donation of his archives to the University Library.

Seventy years after the death of James Joyce in 1941, it’s appropriate that Ulysses, his literary masterpiece, should be chosen as the notable book during Freedom to Read Week.

Author Stephen Reid penned his first novel in Kingston Penitentiary.  He also began a love affair behind bars that still lasts today.

In celebration of Universal Letter Writing Week, January 8-14, we look at one of the world's most comprehensive letter collections and its continuing value as a research tool.

Christmas is a time when families gather from near and far to celebrate the holidays together. Often, these gatherings stir up old memories and every once in a while, a family heirloom may be presented.

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and McMaster University Library announced an agreement for Gale to digitize the Library's WWII Holocaust, propaganda and Jewish underground resistance collections.

The walls of the TwelvEighty restaurant and bar in Gilmour Hall were transformed this past spring with archival photographs from The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections in Mills Memorial Library.