Academic
Resource Centre
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Location: | University of Toronto at Scarborough |
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Cost: : | $23 million | |
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Space: | 9,000 gross square metres [gsm] / 96,875 square feet | |
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it is: | Expanded library facilities, including electronic information systems, teaching and learning services and academic resources. | |
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Opening date: | September 2003, official opening Nov. 5/03 | |
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What's in it: | A completely renovated library (one of the first digital libraries in Canada), improved work / study spaces, the Sun Microsystems Informatics Commons, and a 500-seat lecture theatre which can be used for musical performances as well as academic lectures. The ARC is also home to the Doris McCarthy Gallery. | |
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users: |
University
of Toronto at Scarborough campus community. U of T has the third largest
research library system in North America, after Harvard and Yale. | |
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Architects: | Brian MacKay-Lyons / Rounthwaite, Dick and Hadley | |
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