Upcoming events:
Exhibit Vernissage | Heart & Mind by Stéphan Ballard, 2023 Michèle Larose-Osler Library Artist-in-Residence
When: Thursday, April 11, 2024 17:30 - 19:00
Where: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler, 3rd floor, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6
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The team at the McGill Libraries are pleased to invite you, on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. to the Michele Larose - Osler Library Artist-in-Residence Programme exhibition vernissage by Stéphan Ballard entitled Heart and Mind.
L’équipe des Bibliothèques de McGill est heureuse de vous inviter le jeudi 11 avril 2024, à 17 h 30, dans le cadre du Programme d’artiste-en-résidence Michele Larose – Bibliothèque Osler à un vernissage par l’artiste Stéphan Ballard intitulé Heart and Mind à la Bibliothèque Osler de l’histoire de la médecine (3655, promenade William Osler).
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About the exhibit
This project is a heartfelt photographic tribute to the world of surgical practice and the remarkable theater it comprises — the operating room. It allows us to closely observe the dedicated actors within, each meticulously playing their roles, from the caregivers tending to the patient's well-being, the biomedical engineers studying for new tools to the surgeons orchestrating every step of the operation. This work is a product of collaboration with highly skilled surgeons who granted me the privilege of witnessing their daily miracles and the positive impact they have on countless lives.
Delving into the relation of art and surgery, an ongoing book project sparked from this photographic dialogue attains new heights through the Michèle Larose - Osler Medical Library Award. This recognition opened a gateway to deeper immersion within the repository of knowledge housed within the library's walls, prompting reflection on the significance of my role within the context of history.
Guided by the erudition of Osler Medical Library scholars, the project evolves from its inception, intertwining images from ancient medical tomes with contemporary operating room photographs, giving rise to a transcendent theme. Amidst the solemn columns, rows, and shelves of the rare original medical book collection, the passage of time unfurls a narrative of decay and adaptation, spanning millennia. The quest for permanence amidst this flux becomes paramount, mirroring our evolution from vellum to bio-ink, encapsulating the very essence of our humanity. As we witness the beginning of regenerative medicine, the written word metamorphoses into life itself, rendering the book not merely a vessel of knowledge but the very matrix of our perpetuity.
Through this heightened awareness, the photographic corpus captures the present time, where the surgeons' poetic handwriting on life remains vital.
About the artist
Stéphan Ballard's life and work has revolved around Montreal. Having pursued studies in graphic design and photography at Concordia University, he swiftly emerged onto the artistic scene with participations in numerous collective and solo exhibitions spanning across Canada and Europe.
His creative path took a significant turn in 1996 when he was honored with the Barbara Spohr Grant, which led him to a period of development at the Banff Art Centre. Here, he integrated emerging new media into his artistic process, benefiting from a multidisciplinary foundation in design, art, and photography.
Stéphan Ballard's artistic beginnings intersected with technological advancements, as he navigated the transition from traditional chemical photography to the digital realm. This transformative phase nurtured a deep sensitivity to the ever-evolving landscape of technology and reinforced the importance of cultivating adaptable creativity in response to shifting mediums.
Stéphan Ballard's artistic path also led him into unexpected territories. Amid the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, he found himself recruited by the medical photography team. Here, he stumbled upon the realm of medical photography and, with great enthusiasm, surgical photography. His prior engagement with the National Film Board of Canada, a bastion of documentary cinema, prepared him for this privilege, and he ardently embarked on a quest to master the art of surgical photography. This journey amalgamated innovative capture techniques with composite imaging processes borrowed from cinema, amplifying the potential of photographic documentation for surgical education.
Encouraged by the surgical department, his initiative and experimentation in capturing these images garnered widespread appreciation, and to his gratifying surprise, his artistic images found an esteemed place within the lexicon of medical imaging for educational purposes.
This achievement led him to being awarded the Michèle-Larose Osler Grant. His ongoing project involves collaborating with surgeons to juxtapose the content of venerable medical illustrations with operating room interventions, offering a unique perspective on the history of medical imaging.
About the Michèle Larose – Osler Library Artist-in-Residence Programme
Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Michèle Larose, artist and paediatric neuropsychiatrist who trained in psychiatry and child psychiatry at McGill and in visual arts at Curtin University in Australia, the Osler Library of the History of Medicine has established an artist-in-residence programme.
The award supports visual artists visiting the university to create works that address contemporary and/or historical subjects in medicine and the health sciences that are inspired by the rich and diverse collections held by the Osler Library and/or other sources at McGill, which may include McGill faculties and hospitals. Possible projects can include, but are not limited to: painting; photography; performance; sculpture; and digital, video or installation art.
Au sujet de l’exposition
Ce projet représente un hommage photographique sincère à l’univers de la pratique chirurgicale et à son remarquable théâtre : la salle d’opération.
Vous y verrez de près chaque intervenant dévoué qui s’y active, s’efforçant méthodiquement d’accomplir son rôle, des soignants veillant au bien-être du patient aux ingénieurs biomédicaux qui étudient et conçoivent de nouveaux instruments, sans oublier bien sûr les chirurgiens, véritables chefs d’orchestre coordonnant chaque mouvement de l’intervention. Cette œuvre est le fruit d’une collaboration avec des chirurgiens au talent immense qui m’ont accordé le privilège d’assister aux miracles qu’ils accomplissent chaque jour et de témoigner de l’impact positif qu’ils ont sur d’innombrables vies.
Plongeant au cœur de la relation entre l’art et la chirurgie, un projet de livre en cours de création né de ce dialogue photographique atteint de nouveaux sommets grâce au prix d’artiste-en-résidence Michele Larose – Bibliothèque Osler. Cette reconnaissance a ouvert la porte à une immersion plus profonde dans cette mine de savoir, me poussant à réfléchir à l’importance de mon rôle dans un contexte historique.
Guidé par la sagesse des érudits de la Bibliothèque de médecine Osler, le projet a évolué par l’entrelacement d’images d’anciens ouvrages médicaux et de photographies modernes de salles d’opération vers un thème transcendant. Au milieu des colonnes, rangées et étagères donnant un air solennel à la collection de livres médicaux rares et originaux de la bibliothèque, le passage du temps fait le récit de la dégénérescence et de l’adaptation au fil des millénaires. De ce flot temporel émerge notre quête existentielle de la permanence, à l’image de l’évolution du vélin à la bioencre, résumant l’essence même de notre humanité. Alors que nous sommes témoins des débuts de la médecine régénérative, l’écrit se métamorphose et prend vie pour dépasser son rôle de vaisseau de la connaissance et incarner la matrice de notre perpétuité.
Vu à travers le prisme de cette prise de conscience le corpus photographique capture ce moment présent, où la calligraphie poétique qu’apposent les chirurgiens sur la vie demeure vitale.
Au sujet de l’artiste
Stéphan Ballard a fait de Montréal le centre de sa vie et de son travail. Après avoir réalisé des études en design graphique et photographie à l’Université Concordia, il s’est rapidement illustré sur la scène artistique avec ses participations à de nombreuses expositions collectives ou en solo au Canada et en Europe.
Son cheminement créatif a pris un virage important en 1996 alors qu’il a reçu le prix Barbara Spohr offert par le Banff Art Centre. Durant ce séjour, il a pu expérimenter en intégrant de nouveaux médias émergents dans son processus artistique et en mettant à profit ses bases multidisciplinaires en design, en art et en photographie.
L’évolution artistique de Stéphan Ballard a suivi celle de la technologie, en s’arrimant à la transition de la photographie traditionnelle sur pellicule vers le monde numérique. Ce processus de transformation a nourri chez lui une profonde sensibilité envers le paysage en constante évolution de la technologie, tout en renforçant l’idée de maintenir une certaine fluidité dans sa créativité afin de s’adapter aux médias changeants.
Le parcours artistique de Stéphan Ballard l’a également mené vers des territoires inattendus. Au cœur de la pandémie de COVID-19, il a été recruté par une équipe de photographie médicale qui l’a amené à découvrir, avec un grand enthousiasme, l’univers de la photographie chirurgicale. Une entente antérieure avec l’Office national du film du Canada, un bastion du cinéma documentaire, lui a pavé la voie vers ce privilège, et il s’est donné pour mission de maîtriser cet art avec passion. Dans sa quête, Stéphan Ballard a fusionné des techniques de capture novatrices et des processus de composition d’images empruntés au cinéma afin d’amplifier le potentiel de la documentation photographique dans l’étude de la chirurgie.
Avec l’appui du département de chirurgie, son initiative et ses expérimentations ont suscité un intérêt généralisé et il a été agréablement surpris de voir ses images artistiques se tailler une place honorable au sein du lexique des images médicales à des fins éducatives.
Cette réussite l’a mené vers l’obtention du prix Larose-Osler, et le projet sur lequel il travaille en ce moment sollicite la collaboration de chirurgiens pour juxtaposer le contenu d’illustrations médicales vénérables et les interventions en salle d’opération afin de créer une perspective unique sur l’histoire de l’imagerie médicale.
Au sujet du Programme d’artiste-en-résidence Michèle Larose - Bibliothèque Osler
Grâce à la générosité du Dre Michèle Larose, artiste et neuropsychiatre pédiatrique qui a suivi une formation en psychiatrie et pédopsychiatrie à McGill et est aussi diplômée en arts visuels à l’Université Curtin en Australie, la Bibliothèque Osler de l’histoire de la médecine a mis en place un programme d’artiste-en-résidence.
Le prix soutient des artistes en arts visuels qui comptent visiter l’université dans le but de créer des œuvres qui traitent de sujets contemporains et / ou historiques en médecine et en sciences de la santé. De plus l’œuvre devra s’inspiré des collections riches et diverses détenues par la bibliothèque Osler et / ou d’autres sources à McGill, comme à la Facultés et hôpitaux de McGill. Les projets peuvent inclure, sans s’y limiter à : la peinture ; la photographie ; la performance ; la sculpture ; l’art numérique, et la vidéo ou d’installation.
Recent event:
Thou Hast Need of Them: Historical Minorities in the Faculty of Medicine
Staff from the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, Maude Abbott Medical Museum, and the Jewish Public Library Archives discussed the fascinating holdings related to three medical graduates from McGill University, each of whom prevailed over the systemic barriers they faced in pursuing their medical careers. Each institution gave a brief presentation about their graduate, followed by the opportunity to interact with items from their material history.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 from 14:00 to 15:30
Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building / [221-224], 3640 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C7
Vous en avez besoin: les minorités historiques dans la Faculté de médecin
Prenez part à une discussion avec la Bibliothèque Osler de l’histoire de la médecine, le Musée médical Maude Abbott et les Archives de la Bibliothèque publique juive au sujet de fonds fascinants liés à trois diplômé(e)s en médecine de l'Université McGill, qui ont tou(te)s surmonté des obstacles systémiques dans la poursuite de leur carrière médicale. Chaque institution fera une brève présentation de son ou sa diplômé(e), à la suite de laquelle il sera possible d'interagir avec des éléments de son histoire matérielle.
mardi 26 mars 2024 - 14h00 - 15h30
Pavillon Strathcona (anatomie et médecine dentaire), salle de lecture d'anatomie [221-224]
Past exhibitions and presentations
- The Rise and Influence of Medicine in the Islamic World, a collaboration between the Islamic Studies Library and the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, September 2023 - February 2024. Read the blog post about the exhibit.
- Coffee with a Codex: Medical Manuscripts & Marginalia / manuscrits médicaux et notes marginales. Curator Dot Porter of the University of Pennsylvania’s Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and Prof. Emerita Faith Wallis of McGill University came together for a special joint edition of Coffee with a Codex. They looked at two medical Manuscripts: the Osler Library's recent acquisition, Carmen de urinis with the Commentary of Gilbert the Englishman, and Manuscript LJS 24 from the Kislak collection at the University of Pennsylvania. For information about the series, see: https://schoenberginstitute.org/coffee-with-a-codex/.
- McGill Medical Student Research Symposium. Meygan Brody, "Mortality in Medicine: How Palliative Care and Euthanasia Reframe Our Relationship with Death" ; Amina Moustaqim-Barrette, The opioid overdose crisis in British Columbia: Towards a Sociopolitical Reckoning ; Emmanuel Adams-Gelinas, The Biological Psychiatry of Islamic Medicine: an Antidote to Misconceptions about Medieval Madness ; Neevya Balasubramaniam, “The Central Nervous System in the 18th Century Japanese Dissection Scrolls: Art of Observation and Dissection” ; Paris Dastjerdi, "Restoring Avicenna's Tomb - A Historical Analysis of William Osler's Efforts" ; Yoel Yakobi, “An Army of the (Illustrated) Dead: The Use of Style in Andreas Vesalius's Skeleton and Muscle Men in Deposing Galen as the Emperor of Anatomy.” Plus, a special guest appearance by Dr. Milton Roxanas, "Early auscultation and the glass stethoscope." Watch the presentations here: https://www.youtube.com/live/BwT-EkgvTvI.
- Danister Perera, Sri Lanka medical manuscripts as sources for medical history and the revitalization of traditional knowledge. Read the related blog! Watch the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3lEzPaZ5Zo.
- An evening with Ana María Gómez López, Michèle Larose - Osler Library Artist-in-Residence. 3 April 2023.
- Medical student research symposium. Yoel Yakobi, "Concessions, Coercions, and Coveted Conversions: Papal Injunctions against Jewish Physicians in the Renaissance"; Alba Sanchez-Allakhverdieva, "Beyond the Origins of the Institute Philippe-Pinel: Exploring the Relationship between Forensic Psychiatry and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in Quebec"; Devon Haseltine, “Optimizing Global Food Security for a Sustainable and Healthy Tomorrow”; Rushali Gandhi, “On the Presence of Unaccounted Bias: The Saga of Samuel George Morton’s Skull Collection and Race”; Saman Arfaie, “Leonardo da Vinci's Medical Library: Mining the Secrets of Genius, and Creativity”; Ali Fazlollahi, “Passing the Torch: Education During the Golden Age of Neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute.” 1 November 2022. Watch here: https://youtu.be/Utv6cDwPuaI.
- Professor Joseph W. Lella Symposium. Talks by Margaret Lock, Bernard Brais, Brendan Ross, Rolando Del Maestro, Jeremy Norman, Guylaine Beaudry, Mario Molina, Milton Roxanas, Vivien Lane, Maia Woolner (not recorded). 3 November 2022. Watch here: https://youtu.be/nit009AFonQ.
- Scholarship at the Source: Allister Neher on Art and Anatomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Talk by scholar and author Allister Neher upon themes from his book, Art and Anatomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Watch here: https://youtu.be/GBpmVKU8Np0.
- Cure Yourself by Electricity! Personal Electrotherapeutic Devices in Canada and Beyond c. 1880s-1930s. Exhibit curated by Dr. Maia Woolner. McLennan Library Lobby, August-September 2022.
- Show and Tell: The Secrets of Women / Montrer et racontrer : les secrets des femmes. Local artist Caroline Boileau and McGill-trained historian Margaret Carlyle interact with a few of the Osler Library's new acquisitions (and some older ones!) in an attempt to demystify medical history during a feminist dialogue of discovery. 15 December 2021. Enjoy the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEOJVltN-_Y.
- Research and the Osler. An evening celebrating medical student humanities research supported by the Osler Library. Featured speakers: Lilly Groszman, "Untold Medical History: Montreal’s Days of Shame;" Brendan Ross, "The Chinese Apotheosis of Dr. Norman Bethune: The Making of a Medical Folk Hero;" Faith Wallis, "Osler the Student." Watch the symposium: https://youtu.be/VakT8WDlfOg.
- The many faces of Norman Bethune. A moderated discussion held virtually on 23 March 2021. Watch the discussion: https://youtu.be/ZEtprnIxDE4.
- Perspectives on Sir William Osler in the 21st century. Virtual symposium hosted by our colleagues in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine on February 3, 2021. Moderated by Suzanne Morton (McGill University) and featuring panelists Jenna Healey (Queen's University), Samir Shaheen-Hussain (McGill University), Nadeem Toodayan (University of Queensland), André Lametti (McGill University), Mary Hague-Yearl (McGill University), and Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo). Read summaries of each of the talks, written by the medical students from the McGill Osler Society. Watch the symposium: https://youtu.be/tUFzsaNaiOI.
- Osler Day, featuring the Del Maestro Family William Osler Medical Student Essay Awards (recording available here: https://youtu.be/62SM8BFDAiQ) and the 43rd Annual Osler Lectureship, Wednesday November 4th, 2020.
- Poetry Matters - Shane Neilson Thursday, February 13, 2020. A poet, physician, and critic from New Brunswick, Shane Neilson focuses on the articulation of pain and disordered affect through poetic form. As poet and editor, he comments on the emergent area of "disability poetics"; as a physician, he considers the value of poetry in medical practice.
- Osler Day, featuring the Pam and Rolando Del Maestro William Osler Medical Students Essay Awards and the 42nd Annual Osler Lectureship, Wednesday, November 6th, 2019.
- "The Reception of Galen's Pharmacology in Latin", talk by Mary Louise Nickerson Travel Grant awardee Dr. Iolanda Ventura, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, Università di Bologna, Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 17:00 in ARTS 160. Sponsored by the McGill Medievalists Annual Rare Books Talk.
- The humoral basis of race difference? Depictions of race in medicine within the holdings of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine. Talk and workshop led by Mary Hague-Yearl, organized by Robin Simpson in conjunction with Jonathas de Andrade, "Counter-Narratives and other Fallacies," exhibit at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University.
- Sir William Osler's Leonardo da Vinci Collection: Flight, Anatomy and Art. An exhibition curated by Dr. Rolando F. Del Maestro, William Feindel Professor Emeritus in Neuro-Oncology at McGill University and Director, Neurosurgical Simulation and Artificial Intelligence Learning Centre at the Montreal Neurological Institute, 15 April - 30 June 2019. A catalogue to the exhibit is available and can be viewed or downloaded here. Read some press coverage of this exhibit from France.fr: la version française ; English version.
- Osler: The Man You Rarely See. An exhibition of rarely-displayed items relating to William Osler, curated by former Medical History Librarian, Pamela Miller, 15 April - 30 June 2019.
- Predictor Unveiled: The First Reliable Home Pregnancy Test & its Little-Known Connection to Montreal. Panel discussion with Meg Crane (NYC - inventor of the Predictor), Prof. Jenna Healey (Queens Univ.), Prof. Christabelle Sethna (Univ. Ottawa), and Prof. Alanna Thain (McGill Univ.), May 7, 2019.
- Curiosities of Conception; Selections from the Osler Library of the History of Medicine. An exhibit co-curated by Shana Cooperstein and Frances Cullen with contributions from Robin Lynch, Lauren Harnish, Rach Klein, Anya Kowalchuk, and Kristy Kong, 24 January - 15 May 2019.
- Corps qui hantent d'autres corps. An exhibition featuring the work of 2018 Michele Larose-Osler Library Artist-in-Residence, Caroline Boileau, 4 February - 15 April 2019.
- "Universal medicine": Lessons from seventeenth-century England, Keynote address by Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge, Angelical Conjunctions conference, 12 April 2019.
- Osler Day, featuring the Pam and Rolando Del Maestro William Osler Medical Students Essay Awards and the 41st Annual Osler Lectureship, 7 November 2018.
- The Fabric of the Human Body" (Vesalius, 1543): Images and Icons for the History of Medicine, Lecture by Hélène Cazes. Presented in collaboration with Le Département de langue et littérature françaises and Rare & Special Collections, Osler, Art, and Archives (ROAAr); supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 30 October 2018.
- De musei fabrica, Exhibition in collaboration with Text’art, a group of six Montreal fibre artists, and the Maude Abbott Medical Museum, 17 May - 20 August 2018.
- Materia Medica, Exhibition by Loren Williams, December 13, 2017 - 4 May 2018.
- Book Launch: Physicianship and the Rebirth of Medical Education, by J. Donald Boudreau, Eric Cassell, and Abraham Fuks, April 26, 2018. Print and e-book available through Library catalogue
- Jean-Martin Charcot and the “Caesarism” of the Faculty of Medicine, Lecture by Dr. Bernard Brais, sponsored by the Medical Students' Osler Society, April 17, 2018.
- Oslerian Treasures: The Father of Modern Medicine, Lecture by Professor Faith Wallis, sponsored by the Medical Students' Osler Society, February 5, 2018.
- Impossible pathologies: re-fragmenting the archive, Exhibition by Lucy Lyons, October 12 - December 12, 2017.
- The Gendered Cultures of Beer and Cheese: the Regulation of Human and Microbial Bodies on the Home and Industrial Scales, 1616 - 2017, September 11 - October 2, 2017.
- Vaccination: Fame, Fear and Controversy, 1798-1998, January 2017 - August 2017.
- A History of Neuro-Oncology: Canadian Savoir Faire, a talk by Dr. Rolando Del Maestro, MD, PhD, William Feindel Emeritus Professor in Neuro-Oncology, Director of McGill Neurosurgical Simulation Research and Training Centre. This talk encouraged discussion surrounding ideas and individuals that have shaped the world of neuro-oncology, while placing emphasis on Canadian neuro-oncology research. Attendees were encouraged to prepare a ‘Canadian Neuro-Oncology Minute’ that highlighted an individual’s contributions to historical and/or current advancements in Canada and received an autographed copy of Dr. Rolando Del Maestro’s book A History of Neuro-Oncology (2008).
- Rural Medicine in 20th Century Quebec: Stories and Devices, curated by Dr. Richard Fraser, Laura Sang, Joan O’Malley, Marc Provost, Jerry Xie, Meriem Bounnab and Lucy Luo. October 2016 - January 2017.
- Knowing Blood: Medical Observations, Fluid Meanings, curated by Darren N. Wagner and Nick Whitfield. January-September 2016.
- Sanitizing Style: Germ Theory and Fashion at the Turn of the Century, curated by Cynthia Tang and Anna Dysert. September-December 2015.
- On the Surface/Skin Deep, curated by Sylvie Boisjoli and and Shana Cooperstein. Read exhibition talks from the curators in the spring 2015 issue of the Osler Library Newsletter (no. 122). Follow link to an interview with the curators on our blog.
- The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Yellow Wallpaper. A Biography of Neurasthenia in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, curated by Prof. Andrea Tone. September - April 2014.
- Designing Doctors, an exhibit talk by Professor Annmarie Adams, McGill School of Architecture. Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 1:00-2:00, Meakins Auditorium (5th floor McIntyre Medical Sciences Building).
- "Neurological Laboratories" to Interdisciplinary "Centres of Brain Research": Otfrid Foerster, Wilder Penfield, and Early Neuroscience in Breslau and Montreal, a Nickerson Fellowship talk by Dr. Frank Stahnisch, Thursday, 2 May 2013, 2:00 - 3:00, Don Bates Seminar Room 101, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, 3647 Peel Street.
- Artistic Practice Scientific Vision: British Artistic Anatomy in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineetenth Century, the catalogue to the exhibit curated by Dr. Allister Neher.
- Our Friend the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics from the Osler Library Collection, 1901-1944, a lecture given by Dr. Tania Anne Woloshyn (Recorded January 24, 2011). This recording is made possible by a generous gift from Gail Beck, O.Ont., Med’78 and Andrew Fenus, MLS’74.
- Osler Library Lecture: A Relationship Etched in Time: Leonardo da Vinci, the Earl of Arundel and Wenceslaus Hollar, a lecture given by Dr. Del Maestro (Recorded January 10, 2011). This recording is made possible by a generous gift from Gail Beck, O.Ont., Med’78 and Andrew Fenus, MLS’74.
- Our Friend, the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics from the Osler Library Collection, 1901-1944, the catalogue to the exhibit curated by Dr. Tania Anne Woloshyn.
- 175 Years of the McGill Medical Library
- The Ghafiqi Project
- Margaret Ridley Charlton - Pioneer Medical Librarian. The first person with library training to work at the McGill University Medical Library and, with William Osler, one of the founders of the Medical Library Association.
- Osler's McGill: Medical Education, 1870-1885
- Our Friend the Sun - Images of Light, a lecture given by Dr. Tania Anne Woloshyn (Recorded January 24, 2011).
- Photographic Journey: McIntyre Medical Sciences Building and Osler Library - (Virtual McGill Project)
- A Relationship Etched in Time: Leonardo da Vinci, the Earl of Arundel and Wenceslaus Hollar, a lecture given by Dr. Del Maestro (Recorded January 10, 2011).
- Tour of Osler's Montreal 1870-1885 / Le Montréal de William Osler
- William Osler & the Teaching of Microscopy at McGill