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 campuses, holding over 11.78 million items. It is the fourth-largest research intensive academic library in Canada.
13-769: The Marvin Duchow Music Library is a branch of McGill University Library . Its mandate is to "provides resources and services to support the performance, composition, research, and teaching programs of the Schulich School of Music ". Located in Montreal , at the third, fourth and fifth floors of the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, the library contains printed scores , recordings, books and journals, and other data related to music and its performance. More than 200 000 documents are accessible to visitors, making
26-544: A University Libraries Commission whose Report (1971) recommended reorganization and greater coordination in the administration of the library systems. 45°30′12″N 73°34′36″W / 45.50333°N 73.57667°W / 45.50333; -73.57667 Canadian Association of Research Libraries The Canadian Association of Research Libraries ( CARL ) was established in 1976 and brings together thirty-one research libraries. Twenty-nine members are university libraries, plus Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and
39-404: A diverse range of studying and learning spaces for groups and individuals, various technology and multi-media installations, and timely assistance in accessing and using information. This unique facility was designed by Montréal architect François Emond and his team at ékm architecture together with Douglas Birkenshaw, and his team at Bregmann + Hamann from Toronto. Birks Reading Room The Library
52-871: A large addition to Redpath Hall was opened to the south and the east wall of the original building was enclosed. It was at this time the library reading room was moved over what is now known at the Redpath library building and the Hall became a music hall. It was during this time that the University Librarian became primarily responsible for this main library collection that covered the humanities and social sciences discipline. Area libraries in Medicine, Law, Engineering, Physical Sciences, Divinity, Nursing and other disciplines were still largely independent. In 1969, McLennan Library (Humanities and Social Sciences) opened, and Senate set up
65-695: Is a member of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries , the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec (CREPUQ), as well as other cooperative groups. The Library is a contributor to the Open Content Alliance As of 2010, one of the Library's major projects involves digitization of books in the public domain. In 2013
78-594: The McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies that prepares graduate students for M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, is one of the largest collections of its kind in Canada. The McGill University Library's Cyberthèque – a large-scale, multi-purpose information facility – opened its doors to McGill students in 2008. Located in the Redpath Library Building at street level, the "experiential" Cyberthèque blends
91-664: The National Research Council Canada National Science Library (NSL). "CARL provides leadership on behalf of Canada's research libraries and enhances capacity to advance research and higher education. It promotes effective and sustainable knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation, and public policy that enables broad access to scholarly information." Strategic Directions for May 2019 to May 2022: CARL members include 29 university libraries and 2 federal libraries. Participating university libraries: Federal libraries: CARL works with
104-817: The History of Medicine , in the McIntyre Medical Building, is Canada's foremost scholarly resource in the history of medicine , and one of the most important libraries of its type in North America. As of 2011, the Humanities and Social Sciences Library and the Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering are open 24/7 in most cases during midterms and finals during the academic year. The Islamic Studies Library , located in Morrice Hall with
117-506: The History of Medicine, The Visual Arts Collection, and Archives and Records Management . Rare Books and Special collections contains holdings on a variety of subjects, including art and architecture, Canadiana, history, literature, the history of ideas , travel and exploration, and the history of the book. The Lawrence Lande Collection of Canadiana consists of 12,000 items, including books, pamphlets, maps, prints, periodicals, government documents, and broadsides. The Osler Library of
130-569: The McGill library became the second non-US based partner institution with HathiTrust digital library and plans on making their digitized collections available through this repository. The library regularly contributes unique digitized public domain from their collections to the Internet Archive . From 1862 to 1893 the library was located in the west wing of the Arts Building (Molson Hall), where
143-563: The branch libraries is the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, which is housed in the McLennan and Redpath Library Buildings. The Humanities and Social Sciences Library has notable collections in Canadian Studies , English and American Literature , British History , Russian and East European Studies , and World War II . The Library's ROAAr Group was formed in 2016 to unite Rare Books and Special Collections , The Osler Library of
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#1733085176808156-768: The collection one of the most important in Canada , documenting Renaissance scores , Baroque music , jazz recordings and 20th-century music . The library also offers audio and video equipment to its members, including microphones , playback equipments, turntables ... Pianos are available to visitors and members in the library. 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 and Bernard Gagnon, which taught or were students of McGill University . McGill University Library The largest of
169-492: The collection slowly expanded. In 1893 the Redpath Library opened in what is now Redpath Hall . At the same time, the first full-time University Librarian, Charles H. Gould (1893–1919) was appointed. Under Gould and Gerhard Lomer (1920–1947) both the collection and staff expanded. By the 1920s and 1930s the central library's lack of space meant that there was more departmental and area libraries being established. In 1952
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