McMaster is closed Thursday February 13th due to the major winter storm. Libraries will remain closed all day.

https://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/mcmaster-closed-thursday-feb13-2025/ 


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Crystal Kerr with brown hair wearing glasses and a black sweater holding books standing inside Mills Learning Commons.
Crystal Kerr is the diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility strategist at McMaster University Libraries.
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McMaster University Libraries is honouring Black History Month this February with programming across all libraries.

Black History Month is a month-long celebration of Black people's history, culture, and contributions, and takes place in February each year.

"Black History Month is important because it celebrates our black population, while inviting people to recognize contributions Black people have made to broader society, both now and in the past," said Crystal Kerr, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility strategist at McMaster University Libraries.

Promotional post for Archives Alive. Text reads: Usurpers of the Delphic name: Dolphin imposters in the long 18th century. Speaker: Dr. David Hou. Date: 27 February 2025 at noon EST, online. An illustration of a fish accompanies the text.
Attendees can expect to see a variety of texts and sketches held by the libraries' archives during the virtual presentation.
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What makes a dolphin a dolphin? 

This question will be explored in Usurpers of the Delphic name: Dolphin imposters in the long eighteenth century, the next session of the 2024-2025 Archives Alive series hosted by McMaster University Libraries and McMaster Alumni. 

Thode Library 2nd Floor and a portion of the Lower Floor (outside Makerspace) will be closed from 11am-9pm Friday January 24th for a private event. 1st Floor and Lower Floor silent study will remain available.


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Students wearing sweaters and jackets walk outside in a plaza by Mills Memorial Library and McMaster University Student Centre on a sunny autumn day.
Mills Memorial Library on an autumn day at McMaster University.
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McMaster University’s LinkedIn Learning subscription is ending on Sept. 22, 2025.  

LinkedIn Learning came to McMaster as part of a three-year pilot from the Government of Ontario that provided free access to this online platform at publicly funded post-secondary institutions. That pilot ended in 2020. McMaster subsequently extended its access after the end of the provincial pilot. 

TYPE OF ALERT: Building Notice – City water shut-down

REASON: Installation of new water meter


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Three students go down a wide open staircase with glass railings from the second to first floors of the Health Sciences Libraries. Students work at desks on both floors.
Students in the Health Sciences Library at McMaster University.
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The Health Sciences Library has come together with McMaster University Library in a new, campus-wide system collectively called McMaster University Libraries. 

The new system now encompasses all four of McMaster’s libraries, including the Health Sciences Library, H.G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering, Mills Memorial Library, and the renewed Innis Library opening in fall 2025 at the McLean Centre for Collaborative Discovery. 

START DATE: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 7:00 a.m.

END DATE: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 7:00 p.m.


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Crystal with short black hair and a black coat and Lynne with long blonde hair and a red coat sit on a wooden bench outside. Casey with a shaved head and a black coat and Anna with long blonde hair and a grey coat stand behind Crystal and Lynne.
Casey Hoeve (back left), associate university librarian; Anna Flak (back right), teaching and learning librarian; Crystal Mark (front left), diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility strategist, and Lynne Serviss, associate university librarian, facilitate the Community Scholars Program at McMaster University Libraries.
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McMaster University Libraries is looking to support communities across Ontario as a new partner in an exciting program that is making a difference. 

The Cedid Atlas Tercümesi lays open with two colourfully engraved circular maps.
The Cedid Atlas Tercümesi features lavish hand-coloured engravings of maps encompassing the whole world and is captioned in Ottoman Turkish calligraphy.
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Scholars from post-secondary institutions across Canada and the United States recently journeyed to McMaster for a conference which unveiled the Cedid Atlas Tercümesi, newly acquired by McMaster University Libraries.

The extremely rare book is a complete copy of the first atlas printed in the Islamic world using Western European cartographic conventions. Myron Groover, archives and rare books librarian with the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, says there are several elements that make this acquisition unique.

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