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The McLennan Library Building is a major library building of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 3459 rue McTavish ( McTavish Street ), at the northeast corner of rue Sherbrooke ( Sherbrooke Street ) and McTavish.
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]
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 Osler Library, [1] a branch of the McGill University Library and part of ROAAr since 2016, [2] is Canada's foremost scholarly resource for the history of medicine, and one of the most important libraries of its type in North America. It is located in the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Montreal.
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.
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 ...
The Stephen Leacock Building, also known simply as the Leacock Building, is a building located at 855 Sherbrooke Street West, on the McGill University downtown campus in Montreal, Quebec The building was named after Stephen Leacock , a well-known Canadian humorist and author, and Professor of Economics at McGill from 1901 to 1944.
The building cost C$70 million to build, [3] $20 million of which was contributed by Seymour Schulich, a McGill Music alumnus and one of Canada's most important businessmen. The building was created by the architectural firm Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, in association with Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux and began construction after the ...