Academic Libraries in Canada - Allyn and Betty Taylor Library, Bibliotheque Saint-Jean, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Concordia University Librari (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 18. Chapters: Allyn and Betty Taylor Library, Bibliotheque Saint-Jean, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Concordia University Libraries, D. B. Weldon Library, Dr. John Archer Library, Joseph S. Stauffer Library, Killam Library, McGill University Library, McLennan Library Building, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, Pride Library, Redpath Library, Rutherford Library, Ryerson University Library, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of British Columbia Library, University of Toronto Libraries, York University Libraries. Excerpt: The University of British Columbia Library is the library system of the University of British Columbia (UBC). In 2004, UBC Library ranked twenty-second among members of the Association of Research Libraries. The UBC Library is the second largest research library in Canada, with twenty-six branches and divisions at UBC and at other locations, including three branches at teaching hospitals (St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, and Children's and Women's Health Centre of BC), one at UBC's Robson Square campus in Downtown Vancouver, and one at the new UBC Okanagan campus. Plans are also underway to establish a library at Great Northern Way Campus on the Finning Lands. The UBC Library collection comprises 5 million books, 5 million microforms, over 800,000 maps, videos and other multimedia materials and over 65,000 journal and series subscriptions. Additionally, the library holds more than 327,000 electronic resources, including journals, databases, numeric files & CD-ROMs, 1.5 million documents, media and other items. The UBC Library has the largest collection of Asian language materials in North America and the largest biomedical collection in Western Canada. It is a depository library for publications of the governments of British Columbia (BC), Canada, Japan and the United Nations. The Library's collections of special and rare materials include the H. Colin Slim Stravinsky Collection (the largest collection of its kind in Canada, including more than 130 items documenting the work and life of Igor Stravinsky) and the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, containing more than 25,000 rare and one-of-a-kind items relating to the discovery of BC, the development of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and Chinese immigration to Canada. The collection includes documents, books, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, silver, glass, ceramic ware and other artifacts. The Asian Library, located on the sixth floor of the Asian Centre, houses