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Isabel Diana with long black hair and glasses stands in front of her artwork in Mills Memorial Library.
Isabel Diana stands in front of her artwork in Mills Memorial Library.
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What was meant to be a temporary art installation created for a McMaster student’s major research project has found its forever home on a wall in Mills Memorial Library. 

Victoria Flores with curly black hair and glasses smiles standing in front of a cherry blossom tree.
Victoria Flores, libraries student ambassador, teaches students about resources offered by McMaster University Libraries.
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Meet Victoria Flores, our ambassador for the 2025 spring/summer term at McMaster University Libraries.

The university libraries’ student ambassador program was developed to help students navigate services and spaces at the libraries by planning events, supporting social media initiatives, and teaching students about the many ways McMaster libraries can support their learning. 

Victoria joined the ambassador program in January for our winter term and will continue with us this summer. 

Anna Flak with long blonde hair, glasses and a blue shirt and Ariel Stables-Kennedy with long blonde hair and a striped shirt stand outside of H.G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering on a sunny day.
Anna Flak, left, teaching and learning librarian, and Ariel Stables-Kennedy, first-year experience librarian, are co-chairs of the Workshop for Instruction in Library Use conference in June at McMaster.
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Library professionals from across North America will connect at the annual Workshop for Instruction in Library Use conference, or WILU conference, hosted by McMaster University Libraries next month. 

The event runs from June 9-12, with sessions taking place in the Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery and L.R. Wilson Hall on McMaster’s Hamilton campus. 

Anna with long black hair wearing a light purple blouse stands smiling outdoors.
Anna Chatterton is known for her riveting female-focused works for the stage.
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Playwright Anna Chatterton has wrapped up her time at McMaster as the 2024-2025 Mabel Pugh Taylor Writer in Residence – a time that, she says, has been filled with community, growth and connections. 

We chatted with her about her experience this year. 

How has your year gone? It seems like only yesterday that we were welcoming you to McMaster!  

Student wearing a white dress shirt, navy vest and khaki pants with shoulder-length brown hair reads a book by a book stack in Mills Memorial Library.
A student browses the stacks at Mills Memorial Library.
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Patrons visiting Mills Memorial Library may notice employees in the stacks sorting books and journals. 

The work is part of an initiative called Keep@Downsview. This partnership between McMaster, Ottawa, Western, Toronto, Queen’s and Memorial university libraries preserves and ensures access to low demand print materials. 

Ruth-Ellen with short brown hair wearing a blue shirt pulls a tiny book off a shelf in the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections.
Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, distinctive collections cataloguing librarian, came across the book while working on an upcoming exhibit. Photo by Brad Leenstra/McMaster University Libraries
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McMaster University Libraries’ William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections is home to thousands of rare materials, and among them is a rare religious text that’s been hiding in the department's shelves since the 1960s. 

Ruth-Ellen St. Onge’s job as McMaster University Libraries’ distinctive collections cataloguing librarian is to delve into the intricate histories of rare books in the collection and to catalogue these findings for the benefit of researchers and the public. 

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Cameron Wheaton with short brown hair holding a tablet stands next to Wei Zhang with long black hair holding a laptop in Mills Memorial Library.
Cameron Wheaton, left, collection strategy librarian, and Wei Zhang, e-resources and collection analysis librarian, have been working to launch LibKey at McMaster.
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McMaster University Libraries is making it easier for researchers to access materials offered in its collection with LibKey, a suite of tools now available to the McMaster community. 

The LibKey collection includes libkey.io, LibKey Discovery, LibKey Link, LibKey Nomad and BrowZine.

Wei Zhang, e-resources and collection analysis librarian at McMaster University Libraries, says the new tools will help to improve the overall research process for users. 

The Cedid Atlas Tercümesi lays open with two colourfully engraved circular maps.
The Cedid Atlas Tercümesi will be at the heart of the exhibition and features lavish hand-coloured engravings of maps encompassing the whole world and is captioned in Ottoman Turkish calligraphy.
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McMaster University Libraries is partnering with the McMaster Museum of Art to host an exhibition that will feature rare books, maps, and antiquities related to the history of the Mediterranean. 

The Great Sea: Mediterranean Imaginaries from Antiquity to Modernity, open at the McMaster Museum of Art from April 1 to August 1, 2025, will feature materials from the university libraries’ William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, its Lloyd Reeds Map Collection, and the museum’s own collection of related antiquities. 

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