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Millefolium Online Book CatalogMillefolium Online Book Catalog
The Montréal Botanical Garden Library offers you the possibility to consult its online millefolium catalog, available temporarily only in French.
La bibliothèque du Jardin botanique de Montréal vous propose la consultation en ligne de
Many antique and rare books are still not included. Current peridiodicals are also listed.
Different search options are available: full text (recherche plein texte), or through subject (sujet),
title (titre) and author (auteur).
Virtual exhibits of the Library
Online archives and historical collections presented by the Library:
1931-2011: 80 years of history and archives at the Montréal Botanical Garden.
The exhibition is organized into three sections.
The history of the Botanical Garden offers a Historical path with 24 stops through the Garden including over 300 images and archival documents.
Various historical collections are presented in the Archives and Photo Albums : 723 black and white photographs of the construction and the beginnings of the Garden, 67 plans and sketches of the gardens, 39 floral displays posters, 9 souvenir albums of past floral displays, 37 letters from the correspondence between Brother Marie-Victorin and Henry Teuscher, 14 excerpted signatures of the Guest Book, 351 photographs of floral displays, 68 press clippings and three films.
Finally, the Publications section includes the first 20 issues of the Memoirs of the Montréal Botanical Garden.
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through Library and Archives Canada to digitize and describe the archives presented in this virtual exhibit.
Visit the exhibit.
Under the Cuban Sun with Marie-Victorin.
The virtual exhibition includes all the photos, all the texts and the two films of the temporary exhibition presented at the Botanical Garden.
In this online version, the content is divided into topics that can be read from panels to panels or through the menu items.
Included also: pictures of the exhibition, two films and two full texts (PDF) of the Itinéraires botaniques dans l'île de Cuba (Part One)(1942) and Dracaena cubensis: Une relique d'affinité africaine dans la flore de Cuba (1942) from the Contributions Contributions de l'Institut botanique de l'Université de Montréal. En prime: des photos des vitrines de l'exposition, deux films ainsi que deux textes en version intégrale (PDF), soit Itinéraires botaniques dans l'île de Cuba (Première partie)(1942) et Dracaena cubensis: Une relique d'affinité africaine dans la flore de Cuba (1942) parus dans les Contributions de l'Institut botanique de l'Université de Montréal.
The Friends of the Garden have provided financial support for this virtual version.
Visit the exhibit.
Jacques Rousseau: Natural Landscapes and Native People of Northern Quebec and Other Countries.
This collection includes 2942 digitized photographs of botanical explorations in northern Quebec by Jacques Rousseau (1905-1970), second director of the Montreal Botanical Garden. Albums of trips abroad and of other objects, a short biography and 36 publications complete this online virtual exhibition produced with the financial support of the Government of Canada through Library and Archives Canada.
Visit the exhibit.
Family Memories at the Montréal Botanical Garden.
This collection includes nearly 800 photographs taken by visitors to the Botanical Garden at the Botanical Garden taken between 1931 and 2006.
Visit the exhibit. [In French]
All virtual exhibits of the Botanical GardenSeedlings' Corner
The Library has a collection of more than 400 titles of interest to young readers and their teachers. We have illustrated works with simple explanations, picture books, storybooks and even games, to introduce them to the world of nature, especially plants. There's sure to be something to appeal to young people and the young at heart, starting as young as under 2 years old.
Multimedia Room
You can visit the Library's multimedia room and learn about the many multimedia resources
available on horticulture, botany and landscaping. No appointment necessary! With our nine
computers, more than 50 CD-ROMs and various software titles, you can consult encyclopaedic
plant selectors, draw up your own landscaping plans and, for our younger visitors, learn about
nature in an entertaining and interactive way. Some bibliographic tools (Index Kewensis, Hort-CD)
provide access to specialized references. Three terminals are also hooked up to the Internet.
There are close to 200 titles in our video collection. You can view them in the multimedia
room, using headphones, or in our small theatre, when it is available.
The computerized catalogue of our collections is not yet available, but you can consult the
Virtual Garden Shed, with its many descriptions of the multimedia
documents in the Library of the Botanical Garden.
Monographs
Plants are an important part of our day-to-day lives. We use them for food and medicine, to
provide shelter and clothe ourselves and in our gardens. They are the vital backdrop to all
the Earth's ecosystems. You can learn more about the importance and many roles of plants through
the Library's 20,000 monographs, ranging from general to highly scientific, including professional
references and beautifully illustrated volumes, on such themes as botany, useful and medicinal
plants, ornamental gardening and landscaping. You can consult hundreds of titles on flowering
plants or specific groups to find out more about the Botanical Garden's collections of live plants,
such as our orchids and bonsais.
The computerized catalogue of our collections is not yet available in English, only in French.
You can also consult the
Green Pages, which contains many
bibliographies compiled from
our collections of books.
Periodicals
The Library subscribes to nearly 500 periodicals. Some of them are highly scientific, while others deal with general gardening and landscaping topics, and still others are quite specialized, covering specific groups such as roses or cacti. They may be published annually, monthly or at other frequencies, and vary from simple newsletters to bound and magnificently illustrated publications. The complete periodicals catalogue contains close to 3,000 titles and 55,000 volumes. You can consult the database of indexed articles or Hort-CD, in the Library, to help you find what you're looking for.
Rare and Antique Books
The Library of the Montréal Botanical Garden has an exceptional collection of rare and antique books, mainly European, dating from the 17th to the 19th century. Many of these works include engravings or lithographs of botanical illustrations, hand-coloured with water colours. The collection is accessible only for specialized research, by appointment
Archives and historical collections
Conservation of institutional archives and historical collections
is part of the informal mission of the library of the Botanical Garden since its inception in the 40s.
The slide library joining the library in 1986, the photographic archives were added to the various historical collections.
Completed in 2007, with a grant from the Quebec National Archives,
and revised in June 2011, the general archive and historical collections
inventory (1756-2005)
of the Montreal Botanical Garden Library reveals the richness of the
institutional heritage.
The main archive is thus representative of the history of
this important scientific museum founded in 1931 by Brother Marie-Victorin:
correspondence of the curators Henry Teuscher and Marcel Raymond and of
the directors (including Pierre Bourque),
Guest Book, clippings, original drawings,
thousands of photographs and slides,
posters, various artifacts, etc.
In addition to the main institutional fonds, other fonds or collections
of individuals or
organizations related to the institution are also listed: horticultural
schools, various botanists, etc.
The
inventory is available online in a PDF format for consultation.
A prior notice of at least 3
working days is necessary to consult the institutional archives and historical collections.
NEW! To learn more about the archives, the virtual exhibit:
1931-2011 : 80 years of history and archives at the Montréal Botanical Garden.
See also: All virtual exhibits.
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