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Dear Bertie: Letters to Bertrand Russell
Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr, and John F. Kennedy are among the luminaries whose letters are featured in an online exhibit at McMaster focused on philosopher, peace advocate and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell.
Limited bookable study space now available in Mills Library
Starting Sept. 14, McMaster students will be able to book physically distanced workspaces on the ground floor of Mills Library.
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New online hub a one-stop-shop for Library’s suite of remote resources
The Remote Support Hub offers a quick and easy way for McMaster students, faculty and staff to access the Library’s many remote teaching, learning and research services and resources.
Dedicated study space for graduate students available in Mills Library
The Graduate Study Space, located in the Mills Learning Commons, is available for use by McMaster graduate students until the end of the Fall term.
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“We may not be able to bring students into the Library, but we can give them remote access to the resources they need”
A new virtual service is making it possible to access dozens of software programs installed on the Library’s public computers for coursework and research.
Teaching & Learning
Announcing the Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant Recipients
Three McMaster faculty members, and their corresponding projects, will be supported as they build and integrate their OER into their teaching in the coming year.
Writing Home: Community storytellers reflect on home and life in the time of COVID–19
A special podcast project produced by Janet Rogers, the Mabel Pugh Taylor Writer in Residence, features Hamilton writers’ stories of what home means to them and the varied ways in which they’re experiencing the COVID–19 pandemic.
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Under the Archway: When in doubt, go to the library
The Learning Commons in Mills Library is "like the living room of campus", library staff say. Now, with its doors closed, the library is bringing the same friendly, comfortable vibe to its online spaces by providing a range of support services for students at McMaster – services that align with the university’s new Archway program.
Vintage Mac footage provides glimpse of convocations past
In 1934, the first students to begin their studies at McMaster’s new Hamilton campus received their degrees. Footage of this and other convocations from decades past are among the historic films that can be found online in McMaster University Library’s Digital Archive.
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Library staff, students transcribing soldiers' letters home and other historical gems
In 1917, Private Gordon Parkinson wrote home with news that he’d been quarantined due to an outbreak of mumps in camp. Now, a new transcription project is making this letter, and other historically significant items in the Library’s digital archives, easier for scholars to find and use.
Teaching & Learning
Grants to create Open Educational Resources now available
At a time when learning is shifting online, a new grant program is making it easier for instructors to create and integrate high-quality online textbooks and other digital educational materials into their teaching.
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More than 830,000 print books now available online to Mac faculty, students via HathiTrust Digital Library
The University Library, like many academic libraries around the world, is experiencing a disruption in service that has severely limited access to our physical collections. As part of our efforts to provide the materials that you need for your research and study, the University Library is now participating in the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) program.
