40 - Wednesday, October 27, 1993 - North Shore News

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Cap celebrates 25 years with new library
College unveils
$10.9M facility
C A P I L A N O COLLEGE
officially opened its new $10.9
million state-of-the-art library
last week, and the facility is
n o w open for both college
students and North Shore
residents to use.
Surj Rattan
NOW R E P O R T
The opening of the library also
marked the 25th anniversary of
Capilano College.
Skills, T r a i n i n g and Labor
Minister Dan Miller, who is the
minister responsible for colleges
and universities, noted that
Capilano College is one of the
oldest community colleges in B.C.
' T h e new library ensures that
Cap students will continue to enjoy outstanding educational opportunities.
"The kinds of courses and activities that this college is conducting impresses me very, very
much.
"It's the 25th anniversary this
year of Capilano College and if this
is an example of the first 25 years,
I'm certain that 25 years from today the achievements of the college will indeed be remarkable,"
said Miller.
Capilano College president Dr.
Doug jardine said the new library
could not have been built without
the fundraising efforts of the

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The third floor of the new library
currently contains classrooms, but
when enrolment increases, the
third floor can provide for an additional 18,000 square feet for
library use, serving a capacity of
7,000 full-time equivalent students.
The college currently has 4,200
full-time equivalent students.
Among the high-tech features of
the new library are a fully integrated on-line library system,
due to be in place in 1994. Users
of the system will have access to
current catalogue, circulation and
acquistion information via 22
public computer terminals.
The integrated system will also
give students access to remote
data bases and library catalogues
at other colleges and universities.
Another electronic resource, a
12-station computer lab, will offer
hardware such as a color scanner
and a color laser printer, equipment not available to most students.
C a p i l a n o College has also
received an award from B.C.
Hydro for constructing the new
library with advice from Hydro's
NEWS photo Cindy Goodman
Power Smart program.
The new building uses almost
TWO CAPILANO College students use the many resources available to both students and North 160,000 fewer kilowat-hours of
Shore residents at the new $10.9 million college library, which was officially opened last week.
electricity than a comparable
building.
T h e e l e c t r i c i t y s a v i n g is
Study carrels have increased
Capilano College Foundation.
tinuing involvement in the proequivalent to the amount of
grams and activities of the col- from 100 to 350 and many have
The foundation raised over
energy used in one year by 16
been wired for laptop computer
lege," said Jardine.
$240,000 in corporate and private
homes.
donations for the college library.
The new library is 40,000 feet and modem use.
Two floors of the new building
"This vastly increases our abilisquare and is over three times the
The l i b r a r y has advanced
ty to provide our students with
size of the old library with shelving house the library's main collecenergy-saving fixtures in its lighting
first-rate support. W e are very apfor 200,000 volumes, more than tion, study areas, circulation and
reference centres.
preciative of the community condesign.
double its former capacity.