Canadian businessman Seymour Schulich has donated $1.5 million to name a new campus library shared by Canadore College and Nipissing University after former Ontario Premier and North Bay native Mike Harris.
The Harris Learning Library is currently under construction and is scheduled to open in the summer of 2011.
The $25-million facility will be more than twice the size of the existing library and will include “collaborative space” for student projects.
The opportunity to name the Learning Library was built into the fundraising campaign launched in 2008. The contribution for the naming opportunity was set at $1.5 million.
“This is a fitting honour for Premier Harris and I am proud to help recognize him in this way,” said Schulich in a statement.
“Mr. Schulich's generous gift brought the campaign to its goal, allowing us to start the building last August,” said Lesley Lovett-Doust and George Burton, the presidents of Nipissing University and Canadore College respectively in a joint statement. “The Learning Library, due to be completed next summer, will provide our students, staff, faculty and community members with a state-of-the-art library that fosters knowledge, discourse and life-long learning opportunities.”
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