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College gets a valuable asset

UCC recently received a valuable addition to the already existing three story building on the college campus. The addition, housing six new classrooms and a fully equiped library has centralised two major departments in the college - humanities and mathematics. It is now possible , in the classrooms on the ground floor to amalgamate two classrooms and class groups in order that the children may be taught in a team situation, essential particularly in humanities where the course is designed to unite the various disciplines of history, geography, RE and environmental and local studies.

The new library, occupying the whole of the first floor of the new extension is a particularly valuable addition. Previously the college possessed what can only be described as a book store, a room which doubled as library and classroom and which was certainly not conducive to serious study. Not so the new library, possessing as it does seating accommodation for 65 children at tables and 15 separate study carrels. The projected size of the library is 10,000 volumes and at present the stock is some 4,500 volumes, both fiction and non-fiction. Contained within the library is a most extensive careers section designed primarily to meet the needs of the senior scholars though available to all. Ultimately the present library will be but a part of a larger resources centre.

It is hoped that the new library might form a valuable facility for the local community in the role it could play as a study centre for further education scholars or possibly even for those individuals engaged in study for diplomas, degrees etc who find study facilities of this standard hard to come by in this locality...

Building of the Library Annexe