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The Calgary Central Library, also known as the Calgary New Central Library (NCL), is a public library in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and the flagship branch of the Calgary Public Library system. The building is located in the Downtown East Village neighbourhood and opened on November 1, 2018, replacing an earlier central branch built in the 1960s ...
McGill University Library is the library system of McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. It comprises 13 branch libraries, located on the downtown Montreal and Macdonald [2] campuses, holding over 11.78 million items. [3] It is the fourth-largest research intensive academic library in Canada. [4]
Calhoun served as the head of the Calgary Public Library until his retirement in 1945. [11] [12] When a new downtown central library was constructed in the early 1960s, the original branch was renamed the Memorial Park branch, and still operates today. An addition to the 1960s Central Library was built in 1974, doubling the size of the building ...
All traffic between floors is controlled by the central stairwell and elevator core. The sixth floor houses the McGill University Archives, and the fourth floor is dedicated to McGill's Rare Books and Special Collections. The library building was named in honour of Isabella McLennan, who had made a large donation to McGill in order to purchase ...
Calgary's Central Library has won numerous international architectural and urban design awards. [247] The Calgary Public Library is the city's public library network, with 21 branches loaning books, e-books, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, audiobooks, and more. Based on borrowing, the library is Canada's second-largest and North America's sixth-largest ...
Redpath Hall is a historic building at 3461 McTavish Street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on the main campus of McGill University. It was originally the reading room of the Redpath Library, which opened in 1893 as McGill's first dedicated library building. During the first half of the 20th century, the library was extended several times to the ...
The Islamic Studies library was founded, along with the McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies, in 1952. [3] It has grown from a modest departmental library to a respectable library of approximately 150,000 volumes covering the whole of Islamic civilization. The library is located in Morrice Hall, designed by John J. Browne, and built ...
Osler's relief in the library. The McGill University Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, and is a contributor to the Open Content Alliance. In January 2016, Osler Library of the History of Medicine started contributing material to the Medical Heritage Library.