Voices from the Footnotes

Does your childhood library have a tragic story behind it? Nathalie Cooke’s does. We get to know the professor and associate dean of ROAAr in this episode, where she talks about her first library and her initial experience working with archives.

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Host & Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Production and technical assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Transcription: Labiba Faiza

C’est quoi le rôle d’un archiviste de référence à McGill? Ce balado avec Julien Couture nous montre que le boulot d’un archiviste est plein de surprises engageant. Branchez-vous pour des faits amusants de nos archives.  | What does a reference archivist at McGill do? Based on this interview with reference archivist Julien Couture, this job is anything but monotonous. Tune in for fun facts from the stacks. – Note – this episode is entirely in French.

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Animatrice & Productrice: Sheetal Lodhia

Production et assistance technique: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Do you remember the smell of your first library? Jacquelyn Sundberg, the associate producer of Voices From the Footnotes, surely does! In this episode, she shares some childhood library-related anecdotes, what brought her to McGill, and how her love for stories led her to library and archival work. See photos on the ROAAr webpage.

Host & Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Production and technical assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Transcription: Labiba Faiza

In this episode, current and former staff of McGill’s First Peoples’ House discuss the various hurdles faced by Indigenous students in higher education. Interviewees also share how staff and tailored programming provide much-needed support to students and help them build community, foster a sense of belonging, and achieve academic success. For today’s episode, we issue a trigger warning in that we discuss some sensitive issues pertaining to colonialism, mental health, and suicide.

Get connected with First Peoples' House at McGill : https://www.mcgill.ca/fph/

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Today’s episode touched on issues of suicide and mental health. If you or someone you know is struggling, reach out:

Host & Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Production and technical assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Transcription: Labiba Faiza

From bookworm to archivist, meet Lori Podolsky, records manager at McGill University Library and Archives.

In this short episode, Lori tells us why her neighbours were not too fond of her childhood reading habits, how she used archives for the first time while researching a measles epidemic and recalls the series of events that led her to study archival science.

Explore the McGill Library's Archival Collections here.

Host & Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Production and technical assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

From human rights to library science, Chris Lyons is a man of many passions. In this episode, the head librarian at Rare Books and Special Collections talks about his unusual career trajectory, the books he read as a kid, his first encounter with library fines, and the perks of befriending librarians.

This is the second in our series where we get to know the people at ROAAr. The staff, archivists, librarians and students who sit behind the desk – or, in the case of the pandemic, behind the screens.

Explore Rare Books and Special Collections here.

Credits

Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Production and technical assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Guest: Christopher Lyons

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Is there more to archives than just paper and artifacts? Adria Seccareccia, archivist and liaison librarian at ROAAr, says yes! In this short episode, she talks about the interesting work she does at the library, her experience with summer reading programs as a child, and what drew her to archives. This is the first in a series of short pods where we introduce you to the people of ROAAr; The staff, archivists, librarians and students who sit behind the desk – or, in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-21, behind the screens.

So let us introduce Adria. Since joining the McGill Library in 2020, Adria has worked on several projects, including a new web archiving project: McGill University Responses to Anti-Black Racism. Read more about it on the blog here.

For our first episode, The Gault Nature Reserve, Adria put together two timelines tracing the history of the Gault Estate as documented in the McGill University Archives. Explore her work here.

Credits

Host & Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Production and technical assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Transcription: Labiba Faiza

Guests:

Music

Did you know that McGill also owns some land in Mont St. Hilaire? It’s called the Gault Nature Reserve. This episode will focus on the beautiful land and waters of the Gault Reserve, what we know about its history based on McGill’s archives, and how it is used today especially by McGill’s First People’s House.

Host & Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Production and technical assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Transcription: Labiba Faiza

Research Assistance: Michelle McLeod, Adria Seccareccia

See the full transcript on our Website here: https://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/roaar/podcast-voices-footnotes#Gault-estate

Get a taste of what we talk about.