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The collection consists of reports, correspondence, borrowing agreements, and issues of the McGill University Medical Library News from December 1979 to December 1994. It also includes library guides; documents concerning off-site storage at the Currie Gym (1999, 2002, 2013); records of library opening hours from 1980 to 2000; and letters, emails, and a 13-page petition addressing low temperatures in the Health Sciences Library (1989–1991). Additional materials include reports and articles on air quality concerns in the Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building following lawsuits filed by Dr. Mishkin and Dr. Aaron after their leukemia diagnoses (2002), as well as the Life Sciences Library Concept Brief (2008).

The collection further holds pamphlets such as Walking Tour of McGill University (1990) and Continuity & Change: 175 Years of the McGill University Health Sciences Library (1999); reprints of historical articles on the medical library McGill University, The Medical Library (C.F. Wylde, 1927), History of the Medical Library, McGill University (M. Bickley, 1954), The McGill Medical Librarians, 1829-1929, (M. Benjamin, 1962), The Osler Library of the History of Medicine (Dr. Bates, 1967); a June 26, 2013 issue of The Montreal Gazette featuring the article McGill’s Medical Library is Closing, Staff Say; and a copy of C. Lyons’s Consultations regarding the Future of the Life Sciences Library: Possible Effects on the Osler Library (May 10, 2013).

The collection consists of lecture notes from Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, dated around 1873. The lecture is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the origins of textiles, with a particular emphasis on cotton. The second part explores the ribbon, detailing its uses and origins in Normandy, France. The third part addresses industrial progress and modern ribbon manufacturing, and it presents the biography of Jean Baptiste Masselin, the founder of the ribbon industry in France.

The collection consists of correspondence, research files, manuscripts, journals, and ephemera created and accumulated by writer and scholar Leon Edel, who was notably the editor and biographer of Henry James as well as Edmund Wilson.

These materials comprise a microfilm of the Lande collection in Library and Archives Canada, as well as his publication Canadian Historical Documents and Manuscripts (Montréal, 1977-1982). A card index to the Lande Collection in Library and Archives Canada may be consulted at the University Archives.

These records consist of minutes of meetings of the Presbyterian Committee of Laprairie, 1837-1843, and two registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials at Laprairie, 1839 and 1842-1843.

File consists chiefly of letters, receipts, customs documents, and other materials related to a patient's procurement of the disproven cancer drug Krebiozen from 1960 to1961. Also contains clippings and articles about Krebiozen, which was introduced in the 1950s and proven to be fraudulent as a treatment in the early 1960s. Includes correspondence with the Krebiozen Research Foundation and Stevan Durovic, one of the perpetrators of the Krebiozen fraud. Also contains a publication entitled "The dangers of radiation," produced by the Independent Cancer Research Foundation. One additional letter dated 1958 is from the Chairman of the "Committee for a Fair Test of Krebiozen."

The collection includes three warrants to Richard, Earl of Ranelagh concerning payment of troops, 1694-1697 and a signed document in Dutch concerning a Colonel van de Ruyterye, 1702.

The Kelsey Jones Collection consists largely of drafts, sketches and texts for nearly all of his major compositional works. It also contains selected correspondence, programs and some personal papers that outline his life and career in music, composition, and teaching. These documents were organized by Kelsey Jones himself, into subject groupings such as: “commissions,” “publishers,” “letters from my teachers,” “letters from interesting people,” etc.

The collection contains the Holmes Gold Medal, photographs, certificates, a poem, letters, newspaper clippings and memoirs.