Architect	Dobush, Stewart, and Bourke
Date Built	1967 - 1969
Location	Sherbrooke Street and McTavish Street
Description
McGill University's McLennan Library was built between 1967 and 1969.  The building has a steel frame clad in pre-cast concrete panels.  The university says that it is home to, "Archives, Arts Multimedia Language Facility, Electronic Data Resources Service, Government Information Service, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Service Point, Teaching and Learning Services, (and the) Welcome Centre"  The architects were responsible for a number of buildings on the McGill campus including the Stewart Biological Sciences and Ernest Rutherford Physics Buildings The library was named in honour of Isabella McLennan.  An explanation for this can be found on the Cape Breton Regional Library website on a page dedicated to the "The McLennans of Petersfield".  "Hugh McLennan ... had been very involved in Montreal and this involvement led him to be interested in McGill University.  An endowment to the university was funded by the McLennans and in 1969, the McLennan Library was built to house research books for graduate students. The library was named in honor of Isabella McLennan, daughter of Hugh, whose estate helped finance the library. Much earlier, in 1881, Hugh McLennan had given financial aid to McGill. ... In 1883, Hugh became a governor of the university. Hugh also financed the McLennan Traveling Library of Montreal in 1901. This library was the first of its kind in Canada."

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