Rare Books and Special Collections Library

Rare Books and Special Collections is a unit of McGill University Library in Montreal (Canada), whose mandate is to

"support the teaching, learning and research needs of McGill students and faculty from all disciplines, and the wider scholarly community."[1]

Description

Located at the fourth floor of the McLennan Library building, the unit has a collection core of rare books on the following subjects : art, architecture, Canadiana, history, literature, geography. The library seeks to collect books on Canada, philosophy and 18th-century literature. The Special Collections are focused on several themes, for example : children's literature,[2] cookbooks,[3] puppets.[4] Henceforth, these collections contain other material than books, and, in addition to puppets and other artefacts, also house prints, original drawings by artists such as Palmer Cox[5]

Archival collection

Rare Books and Special Collections Library
Entry to the Rare Books and Special Collections Library
General information
Alternative namesRBSC
TypeRare books archive
Period coveredFrom the XVIth century
Building information
BuildingMcLennan Library
Location
CountryCanada
Address3459 McTavish Street, Montreal, H3A 0C9
Coordinates45°30'14.2430"N, 73°34'43.7948"W
Websitehttps://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/rarebooks/about

Rare Books and Special Collections also contains an important archival collection, with more than 100 fonds on various subjects such as the fur trade in Canada, Algonquin and Nipissing communities in Oka at the end of the XIXth century,[6] the creation of the Red River Settlement by the Earl of Selkirk,[7] Ernest Renan's candidature at the deputation of Meaux, France in 1869.[8]

References

  1. "About Rare Books and Special Collections". McGill Library. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  2. "Children's Books Collection". McGill Library. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  3. "Cookbook Collection". McGill Library. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  4. "Rosalynde Stearn Puppet Collection". McGill Library. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  5. "Palmer Cox Collection".
  6. "Algonquin and Nipissing Indians of Oka Collection".
  7. "Earl of Selkirk Collection".
  8. "Ernest Renan Fonds".

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