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Gest explored selling the collection to Harvard or Yale universities, but finally turned to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research for help in purchasing the collection back from McGill, and then donating it to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study [18] The institute, however, had no expertise in the area and the university had no program in Chinese studies.
On 26 April 2012, the University of Sunderland announced the opening of a new campus at Canary Wharf in London. [37] [38] In 2012/13 the student population of the University of Sunderland London Campus was 2,277. Courses are offered in nursing, business, tourism and hospitality, as well as accounting and financial management.
The Rare Book Collection is located on the fourth floor of Mclennan Library. McGill began collecting rare materials in the 1850s, and now constituting rich and highly diverse research collections. These collections are used to aid teaching, learning and research for McGill students and the general public from all fields of study.
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]
The McConnell Engineering Building was donated to McGill in 1959 by John W. McConnell, a major benefactor of the University since 1911 and one of its Governors from 1928 until 1958. In the period after World War II when all of the Engineering Faculties were greatly expanding, this nine-storey structure doubled the number of classrooms, lecture ...
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 ...
Rare Books and Special Collections also contains an important archival collection, with more than 100 fonds on various subjects such as the fur trade in Canada, Algonquin and Nipissing communities in Oka at the end of the 19th century, [6] the creation of the Red River Settlement by the Earl of Selkirk, [7] Ernest Renan's candidature at the deputation of Meaux, France in 1869.
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 ...