McGill Library 2020: Greetings that Pop

SEASON'S GREETINGS THAT POP

The McGill University's Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) has a fast number of books with cut out images inside them that pop out when you open the page. This season, the McGill Library's RBSC is bringing into focus three festive pop-up scenes from the Sheila R. Bourke Collection that consists of over 2000 items and is rich in the “golden age” of book illustrations from the 19th and to the mid-20th centuries like chapbooks, “toy books” as well as deluxe gift books. Watch the following video.

McGill rare pop up remix video

You can read about the McGill Pop-Up collection here.

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McGill rare wintry remix

A Rare Wintry Martlet Remix

 

McGill Library 2020: DIY rare holiday phenakistoscope

DO IT YOURSELF HERITAGE HOLIDAY PHENAKISTOSCOPE

With a slogan Trot away from 2020 with our DIY rare holiday phenakistoscope, the McGill University Library is offering to the public, especially to children and all those young at heart, a real treat of HOW TO make your own phenakistoscope. If you do not know what it is, do not worry. All you have to do is go to this library website and download a .PDF file with a cut out template. Than watch this YouTube video with the instructions how to make it.

Enjoy returning into the past discovering an ingenious invention from those past times.

Happy Holidays !!!