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McMaster University Library
McMaster University Library is the academic library system for the faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering, Science, as well as the Michael DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. McMaster also has a Health Sciences Library administered by the Faculty of Health Sciences.
McMaster University Library consists of three locations with distinct subject specialities: Mills Memorial Library (Humanities and Social Sciences), Innis Library (Business), and the H.G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering. The University Library also provides library services at McMaster's Ron Joyce Centre in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
The library was established as part of McMaster University in 1887 and was originally located in McMaster Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When the university and library moved to Hamilton in 1930, the library resided in University Hall, one of the university's five original buildings.
In May 1951, the library moved to the newly constructed Mills Memorial Library, named after David Bloss Mills, whose foundation, the Davella Mills Foundation, funded the construction. Mills was extended to the east in stages during the 1960s and 1970s, and underwent a major renovation from 1990 to 1994.The renovation won the Ontario Library Association 1996 Building Award for Best Academic Library Project. The original Mills Memorial Library building now houses the McMaster Museum of Art.
The university's first Science Library opened as a separate room in Burke Science Building in 1954 and remained there until 1978, when the H.G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering opened. Thode Library was named in honour of scientist Henry George Thode (1910-1997), who was the university's president from 1961 to 1972.
The Innis Library first opened in 1974 and is named after economist and McMaster alumnus Harold Adams Innis (1894–1952). Located in Kenneth Taylor Hall and adjacent to the Michael DeGroote School of Business, it supports the DeGroote School of Business.
The library's most important collection, the Bertrand Russell archives, came to McMaster in 1968. In 1976, McMaster University Library became a member of the Association of Research Libraries, one of only five Canadian libraries at the time.
In 2008, McMaster University Libraries was honoured as one of the three best academic libraries in North America by the American Library Association's ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) division. Innovations in services included "open[ing] a help desk in Second Life, implement[ing] the creation of a learning commons," and joining "the Centre for Research Libraries, giving students access to over 800,000 international doctoral dissertations." This is the only time that a Canadian academic library has been given the award.
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McMaster University Library
McMaster University Library is the academic library system for the faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering, Science, as well as the Michael DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. McMaster also has a Health Sciences Library administered by the Faculty of Health Sciences.
McMaster University Library consists of three locations with distinct subject specialities: Mills Memorial Library (Humanities and Social Sciences), Innis Library (Business), and the H.G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering. The University Library also provides library services at McMaster's Ron Joyce Centre in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
The library was established as part of McMaster University in 1887 and was originally located in McMaster Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When the university and library moved to Hamilton in 1930, the library resided in University Hall, one of the university's five original buildings.
In May 1951, the library moved to the newly constructed Mills Memorial Library, named after David Bloss Mills, whose foundation, the Davella Mills Foundation, funded the construction. Mills was extended to the east in stages during the 1960s and 1970s, and underwent a major renovation from 1990 to 1994.The renovation won the Ontario Library Association 1996 Building Award for Best Academic Library Project. The original Mills Memorial Library building now houses the McMaster Museum of Art.
The university's first Science Library opened as a separate room in Burke Science Building in 1954 and remained there until 1978, when the H.G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering opened. Thode Library was named in honour of scientist Henry George Thode (1910-1997), who was the university's president from 1961 to 1972.
The Innis Library first opened in 1974 and is named after economist and McMaster alumnus Harold Adams Innis (1894–1952). Located in Kenneth Taylor Hall and adjacent to the Michael DeGroote School of Business, it supports the DeGroote School of Business.
The library's most important collection, the Bertrand Russell archives, came to McMaster in 1968. In 1976, McMaster University Library became a member of the Association of Research Libraries, one of only five Canadian libraries at the time.
In 2008, McMaster University Libraries was honoured as one of the three best academic libraries in North America by the American Library Association's ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) division. Innovations in services included "open[ing] a help desk in Second Life, implement[ing] the creation of a learning commons," and joining "the Centre for Research Libraries, giving students access to over 800,000 international doctoral dissertations." This is the only time that a Canadian academic library has been given the award.