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The Philip Robinson Library is the main library for Newcastle University, and is located on Jesmond Road West. It was named after Philip Robinson, a bookseller in the city and benefactor to the library, in 1989. The subsequent £8 million bequest in the will of his widow Marjorie remains the largest sum donated to a UK university library. [6]
Theodore Morison - Principal of Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne (1919–24) [153] Andy Morrell - footballer [154] Frank Moulaert - professor [155] Mo Mowlam - former British Labour Party Member of Parliament, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, lecturer at Newcastle University [156] [157]
The Newcastle City Library officially opened in the Cultural Centre on 21 October 1957. [10] [11] The library initially functioned solely as a reference library, the collection built out primarily of donations, such as those by C. Barrington Darley, [12] a donation of the entirety of the Women's Club's children's library, [13] and eventually ...
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The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is an academic library consortium of Ontario's 21 university libraries located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Formed in 1967, OCUL member institutions work together to maximize the expertise and resources of their institutions through shared services and projects. [ 3 ]
The Library Board hired sculptor E. B. Cox [5] of Ontario to do renditions of the seven animals representing the seven Tuscarora clans to decorate the new library. [6] The library contains the Bjarne Klaussen Collection, which depicts buildings of Lewiston, New York that were considered historically significant in the village's development.
The Ontario Library Association (OLA) was established in 1900 and is the oldest continually operating library association in Canada. [1] With over 4,000 members, OLA is also the largest library association in Canada [ 2 ] and among the 10 largest library associations in North America.
The Newcastle Community Hall was built in 1923, originally serving as a Post office, library, theatre and council chamber. [2] Newcastle was incorporated as a town in 1856. It remained a small community until the 1990s, when new residential development began and the population quickly swelled. Newcastle had a jail in the late 1800s.