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The Library Building
The RRU Library is located on the traditional Lands of the Lekwungen-speaking Peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.
The library building was designed by Robert F. Harrison & Associates of Vancouver and turns 50 years on November 1, 2024. The glass and concrete design, characteristic of Modernist architecture, was lauded for blending into the environment, winning the Canadian Architect Yearbook Award in 1972, and in 1980, received a Festival of Architecture Award of Merit from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
The Royal Roads Military College Library was originally located in Hatley Castle, in a former bedroom belonging to James and Laura Dunsmuir, and despite an early suggestion to name the library after James Dunsmuir, the name Coronel Memorial Library was chosen to honour the first casualties of World War I in the Battle of Coronel, four of whom were from the first Canadian naval college, which was located in Halifax.
Construction began in September 1973 and was completed in October 1974. The building, included a circulation and information desk, copying facilities, conference and seminar rooms, study carrels, reading and lounge areas, and space for 100,000 volumes. Military cadets were enlisted to move the books into the new building shortly after opening.
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