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Everything on Paper Will be Used Against Me: Quantifying Kissinger: Sept. 30
Visiting scholar Micki Kaufman will discuss how she is using digital research methods and data visualization techniques to study the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)’s Kissinger Collections which detail the former US National Security Advisor and Secretary of State’s correspondence during the period 1969-1977.
Your MAC ID: Keeping Your 'Digital Key' Safe and Secure
With the start of a new term upon us, the McMaster University Library is encouraging new and returning students to adopt stronger digital security practices.
Your MAC ID is your personal digital key to unlocking access to expensive databases and journals and other licensed content offered through the University Library.
Treat your MAC ID as you would treat your online banking:
Update: Completed - Crane work closes some areas of Mills Library
Several areas of Mills Library will be unavailable on Thursday August 25th, as a precautionary safety measure while some very large crane work related to HVAC replacement is taking place just outside the building.
Graduate Student Travel Scholarship Available!
McMaster University Library is pleased to offer a travel scholarship for one McMaster graduate student to attend OpenCon 2016.
Coming Soon: Makerspace @ Thode Library
This fall, McMaster’s Faculty of Engineering and University Library will be launching a makerspace in Thode Library, a new interdisciplinary experiential learning space where the McMaster community can gather to create, invent and learn.
Off-Campus Access and Medportal
In our ongoing efforts to strengthen security and improve access to our extensive library of licensed content, the University Library, in collaboration with the Health Sciences Library, is disabling the single barcode access, commonly used by Medportal users to access library e-resources, and replacing it with a MAC ID login.
How a piece of Honest Ed's found its way to McMaster
An oversized column written by distinguished McMaster alumnus Gary Lautens that once adorned the walls of Toronto’s Honest Ed’s department store, was recently donated to McMaster University Library.
18th century science education “for women, by women”
While examining a rare botanical textbook contained in McMaster’s William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, visiting scholar Anna K. Sagal made an unexpected discovery.
McMaster’s rare maps provide students with a window into the past
A new digital exhibit and experiential learning project is using rare maps from the Lloyd Reeds Map Collection to help students better understand the art and craft of mapmaking.
The Legacy of Austin Clarke
Distinguished Canadian author Austin Clarke passed away over the weekend. A manuscript of his Giller Prize-winning novel “The Polished Hoe” is among the extensive materials belonging to Clarke that are housed in McMaster’s archives.
New digitization project captures 50 years of McMaster on film
A new video digitization project, made possible by the class of 1950, is digitizing vintage McMaster films and making them publicly available online for the first time.
Chava Rosenfarb’s The Tree of Life: A public lecture by Dr. Goldie Morgentaler
Dr. Goldie Morgentaler will be at McMaster on June 9 to speak about her mother, writer Chava Rosenfarb’s three- volume novel, The Tree of Life based on her experiences as a prisoner in the Lodz ghetto.
