All Library branches closed Wednesday, July 1 - Canada Day
Please note all Library branches will be closed Wednesday, July 1, 2015 for Canada Day.
For a listing of opening and service hours please click here.
All Library branches closed Wednesday, June 24 - La F锚te nationale du Qu茅bec/Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day
Please note all Library branches will be closed Wednesday, June 24, 2015 for la F锚te nationale du Qu茅bec/Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day.
For a listing of opening and service hours please click here.
HVAC work in Macdonald Campus Library
Please be advised that the entire Level 3 quiet study floor will be closed off from June 18 through July 12, due to heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning work in the Macdonald Campus Library. There will also be noise, vibrations and ventilation shutdowns in the coming weeks.
June 18, 9pm - Links to Library e-resources won't work for up to 4 hours (EZproxy downtime)
Links to McGill Library e-resources will not work as expected Thursday, June 18, 2015 starting at 9:00pm for up to 4 hours, due to scheduled maintenance to the EZproxy authentication system.
eScholarship@McGill, eTheses, eExams unavailable June 4, 6am to 8am
eScholarship@McGill, including eTheses, eExams and other locally digitized material, will be unavailable Thursday, June 4, 2015 from 6:00am until 8:00am due to regular server maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Renovations: Redpath Library Building, main floor washrooms
Thanks to the generous support of our undergraduate student SSMU Library Improvement Fund, McGill Library & Archives is pleased to report that the long overdue expansion of the washrooms on the main floor of the Redpath Library Building is about to begin!
Downtime for Classic Catalogue and other Library systems due to upgrade, May 17 - 18
Due to a scheduled upgrade this weekend, the following services and systems will be unavailable beginning at 7:00am on Sunday, May 17:
Library Blogs, Library Matters unavailable Friday, May 8, 8am to 9am
McGill Library Blogs锘� and Library Matters锘� will be unavailable Friday, May 8, 2015 from 8am to 9am for scheduled maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Library Blogs, Library Matters unavailable Tuesday, April 28, 8am to 9am
McGill Library Blogs锘� and Library Matters锘� will be unavailable Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from 8am to 9am for scheduled maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Library Blogs, Library Matters unavailable Wednesday, April 15, 8am to 9am
McGill Library Blogs锘� and Library Matters锘� will be unavailable Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from 8am to 9am for scheduled maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Access to Nahum Gelber Law Library during exam period / Acc猫s 脿 la Biblioth猫que de droit Nahum Gelber pendant la p茅riode des examens
Access to Nahum Gelber Law Library during exam period Tuesday, April 7 to Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Easter weekend Library hours
The following branches will be open for study until midnight over the Easter weekend (Friday, April 3 through Monday, April 6):
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Schulich Library of Science and Engineering
Nahum Gelber Law Library
Canadian Tri-Agencies (SSHRC, NSERC, and CIHR) introduce open access policy on publications arising from all awards granted after May 1, 2015
On February 27, 2015, Canada's three major research funding agencies 鈥� the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 鈥� announced a new harmonized "Open Access Policy on Publications" that requires research publications supported by public funds to be made openly availab
Library Blogs, Library Matters unavailable Thursday, March 5, 8am to 9am
McGill Library Blogs锘� and Library Matters锘� will be unavailable Thursday, March 5, 2015 from 8am to 9am for scheduled maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Service outage with WorldCat Local and other OCLC services (RESOLVED)
OCLC is experiencing a generalised outage across many of its platforms including WorldCat Local, the link resolver, QuestionPoint, Colombo (interlibrary loan), EZProxy (off-campus proxy access).
We will update this page with addtional information as it becomes available.
5:19 PM: Service has been restored to all OCLC services.
