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The City of Glasgow College (Scottish Gaelic: Colaiste Baile Glaschu) is a further and higher education college in the city of Glasgow. It was founded in 2010 when the Central College, Glasgow Metropolitan College, and the Glasgow College of Nautical Studies merged. [1] It is the largest college and technical institution in Scotland. [2]
The college was founded in 1950 by the Sisters of Mercy. [15] In 2011, Mercy College absorbed the buildings and facilities of Our Lady of Victory Academy.In 2016, Mercy College opened a new $32 million, 100,000-square-foot residence hall, a 5,000-square-foot fitness center and a Starbucks Cafe and convenience store on its Dobbs Ferry campus. [16]
Broughty Ferry Community Library [7] East Ayrshire. Auchinleck Library; ... Port Glasgow Library; South West Branch Library; Watt Library [18] Midlothian.
Glasgow University Library in Scotland is one of the oldest and largest university libraries in Europe. At the turn of the 21st century, the main library building itself held 1,347,000 catalogued print books, and 53,300 journals .
Our Lady of Victory Academy was established in 1961 [2] by the Sisters of Mercy, who had established Mercy College on the same site in 1960. [ 3 ] It was dedicated to preparing young women to take their full place in church and society by providing quality secondary education in fidelity to the Gospel, Catholic tradition, and the Mercy charism .
The location, close to the original site of the University of Glasgow, [1] [2] [3] takes up 100,000 square metres (1.1 million square feet) on the corner of Duke Street and High Street. Collegelands, latterly known as the College Goods Railway Yard , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] is Glasgow's first new city centre quarter in several years.
Stephen Mitchell (manufacturer and philanthropist) (1789–1874), Scottish tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist, and founder of the Mitchell Library. Francis Thornton Barrett (1838–1919), first librarian of The Mitchell Library between 1877 & 1899, and city librarian for Glasgow between 1901 & 1914.
As well as its Glasgow college, the other two colleges were New College, Edinburgh and Christ's College, Aberdeen. The Glasgow College, funded by local subscription, was established in 1856. It was a multi-disciplinary institution of considerable reputation, existing outside the University of Glasgow's Faculty of Divinity. In 1872 Thomas Martin ...