History
When Lamoureux Hall first opened its doors in 1978, the Education Library was put in place.
The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) was born in 1995 when the Lamoureux Library and the Faculty of Education's Centre of Educative Technologies merged their services. The LRC had as a main objective the support of the Faculty of Education programs, particularly the B.Ed and professional developement programs. The Center had the emphasis set on the integration of new learning technologies in Education.
In the summer of 2006, after major renovations, the LRC changes its name to Faculty of Education Resource Centre to reflect its new mandate which now incudes services for graduate students. In fact, the RCRE was integrated to the Resource Centre and the 3rd floor computer lab has been moved to a room adjacent to the Resource Centre.
The Resource Centre by the numbers
- 184 000 people visited the Centre in 2008-2009
- In 2008-2009, users performed 112 000 transactions at the circulation desk
- In 2008-2009, 122 000 transactions on the Centre's resources were registered
- The Resource Centre can seat more than 300 people
- The Centre has 8 full time employees and 11 part-time employees
- The Centre contains 210 computers reserved for use by the students of the Faculty of Education