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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 ]
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.
It is attached to the adjacent Redpath Library Building by a bridge walkway. The main entrance to the McLennan library is now at the south end of the concrete terrace, on account of the Redpath library's entrance being closed after the terrace renovations ended in January 2014, due to a lack of funding by McGill's administration. [3]
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.
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 ...
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research University located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter, [12] the university bears the name of James McGill, a Scottish merchant, [13] whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College. In 1885, the name was officially ...
The library also contains a small archival collection, which contains correspondence, photographs, programmes and audio and video recordings documenting Canadian music, both classical and avant-garde, through artists such as Kelsey Jones [3] and Bernard Gagnon, [4] which taught or were students of McGill University.