About this Exhibit

Celebrating the Kelly Library’s 50 Years: Spaces, Community, Collections, and Innovation

The Kelly Library at 50

IN 1969 THE JOHN M. KELLY LIBRARY had just opened its doors, drawing the College’s print collections into a modern space for a modern time. The brutalist architecture still looms, but the inside is warm and welcoming – a space for learning and growth. There are expert staff, exemplary faculty, and enquiring students – a shared community of inspiration and creation. We have three floors of resources, analogue and digital, on shelves and screens – a collection to draw local and international knowledge seekers. Here are compelling exchanges, original research, quiet study, and splendid studios – an environment to support innovation in our community and our services.

Exhibit

  • January to December 2019

Curated by

  • Jessica Barr
  • Constance Lewin
  • Noel McFerran

Designed by

  • Sheila Eaton

Exhibit Spotlight

Exhibit Highlights

Then and Now

Our 50th Anniversary Themes

The Kelly Library at 50: A Retrospective of Our Future

Spaces, community, collections, and innovation shape our future as they shaped our past.

Spaces

A quiet place to study, a spot to grab a coffee, and room to grow and learn: this is our space, offering a warm environment and a wealth of academic inspiration

Community 

Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and all those looking for a place to study, socialize, or relax: this is our library community, the reason we are here

Collections 

Books, journals, photographs, manuscripts, and all manner of digital and analogue resources: these are our collections, capturing your interest and igniting your imagination.

Innovation 

Developing new services to support our community, preserving our collections, and drawing on the present to create our future: this is innovation, piloting the library forward into the next 50 years.

Last Look