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Library Hours and Contact Information

Library (Royal Military College Saint-Jean)
Lahaie Building (Room 210)
15 Jacques Cartier Nord
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Québec) J3B 8R8
Phone: (450) 358-6777, ext. 6685766 (You can leave a message)
Email: library@cmrsj-rmcsj.ca

Until further notice the Library Hours are as follow

During COVID: Please contact the library by phone or email to know about opening hours and access procedures for non RMC Saint-Jean community members.

Holidays

The library will be closed on the following days: Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day, Christmas Day and December 26, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Victoria Day, Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Confederation.

The library may also be closed at other times during the year. If in doubt, please phone us a few days in advance.

A little History

The Royal Military College Saint-Jean Library was founded in 1952, at the same time as the College. It was initially located in a small building, next to the stable, and formerly used as a farrier shop. It contained 3000 books and could welcome a handful of students at a time.

The next year, it moved to the Administration building (now called the Massey building) in a room that could hold 17000 books and welcome up to 30 students at once.

The definitive move was completed in November 1972, in spacious rooms of the Lahaie building, built in 1971.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Royal Military Saint-Jean College Library is to support the research and teaching activities of the RMC Saint-Jean community members. In addition, the library is in charge of inventory management and distribution of textbooks used in college and university courses. Moreover, the library offers teamwork rooms and materials for leisure and personal growth to its members.

The library aims for excellence in the services provided to the community. It satisfies your requirements in the most courteous and efficient way, within reasonable limitations of time, staffing, and budget, in both official languages.

The library users include officer cadets and other students of the Canadian Armed Forces, College employees and other employees related to the Department of National Defence.

Library Staff

Library Access

The library is located on the first two floors of the Lahaie Building (entrance is on the 2^nd floor) and offers individual and group working spaces.

The Library Collection

The library collection consists of over 135,000 printed documents (books, monographs, periodicals and government publications), thousands of video recordings, microfilms and microfiches, maps, audio recordings, etc.

At the present time, the library subscribes to over 100 periodicals (mainly in the history, leisure, news and popular science domains) and many newspapers, dailies and weeklies.

The collection covers a wide variety of subject areas: Literature, History, Geography, Science and Humanities, in both official languages. The collection is particularly rich in the military history and military science domains, in which important development efforts are maintained.

Circulation

Terms of loans are specific to each user category:

NB : An item on which a hold has been placed by another user cannot be renewed.

You can do your renewals and place holds online through the library catalogue using your PIN number. This number will let you login to your library account.

You can also contact us by phone or email and we will gladly help you with these operations, or with any other questions you might have about the library.

Date modified:

2024-04-02