McClay Library - Queens University - Belfast
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The McClay Library, situated in College Park, at the top of Botanic Avenue.
Waymark Code: WMV0TH
Location: Ulster, Ireland
Date Posted: 02/04/2017
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The McClay Library operates a controlled entry system. Members are required to use their Queen's staff, student or library card to obtain admission.
Non-members need to apply for access to The McClay Library via an online visitor registration form and should allow one week for their application to be processed.
"Northern Ireland’s newest landmark building, the £50million McClay Library, Queen’s University Belfast – was officially opened in July 2010 by one of their most famous alumni, Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. The management and staff at Specialist Joinery Group are exceptionally proud of their involvement in this highly prestigious project. The project gave us the opportunity to work with Boston based Architectural Practice Shepley Bulfinch and Belfast based Robinson Patterson Partnership.
The McClay Library is the centrepiece of a transformed campus which enables Queen’s to fulfil its ambition to provide a world-class educational experience for current and future generations of students from around the world. The impressive building accommodates 2,000 reader places. The desk design integrated lighting, power and data, to ensure the furniture met the needs of the modern student. Specialist Joinery Group delivered our element of the works to time, budget and quality, resulting in a highly satisfied client."
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"Sir Allen McClay CBE (21 March 1932 – 12 January 2010) was a Northern Irish multi-millionaire businessman and philanthropist who founded Galen (later Warner Chilcott), a pharmaceutical company which was Northern Ireland's first one billion pound business. After resigning from Galen in 2001, he went on to form a second successful pharmaceutical company, the Almac Group.
McClay established the McClay Trust in 1997, a charitable organisation which "supports research and development activities within" Queen's University Belfast. The trust has donated £20 million to the university, which has included sponsorship of PhD studentships at the university's Cancer Research centre. The trust also funded the £3.5m McClay Research Centre at the School of Pharmacy which opened in 2002, and contributed money to the building of the new University Library at Queen's, which opened in 2009 and is now named after McClay."
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