It’s Alive! Using Rare Books and Artefacts to Teach History

Join us for an unforgettable event, in collaboration with the ABQLA, the Jewish Public Library, and McGill

It’s Alive!  Using Rare Books and Artefacts to Teach History
When: Thursday, March 27th, 2025
Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm
Where: McLennan Library Building
             4th floor-3459 rue McTavish
             Montreal, Quebec
             H3A 0C9

Eddie Paul, from the Jewish Public Library, will be presenting a session on giving workshops which bring life to libraries’ rare books and artefacts.

The JPL’s rare book collection of approximately 1800 volumes has been the focus of an ongoing initiative for the last 11 years: rare book workshops conducted for universities, secondary and elementary students, churches, synagogues, community centres, and museums, often in collaboration with other rare book librarians and specialists.  The overarching subtext for these workshops is storytelling about the lives of books, the people who wrote them, read them, produced them, and often divided them.  This session will give you a taste of how these programs work and we’ve tried to confer meaning onto material history using narrative, anecdotes, and other strategies.  Special Collections will be highlighted from both the Jewish Public Library and McGill.

This event is open to the public, but space is limited, so you must register here.