Accession UAA-2008-008 - UAA-2008-008

Bibliotheque Saint-Jean (BSJ) is a University of Alberta Library serving Campus Saint-Jean. Campus Saint-Jean is a French-language multidisciplinary faculty at the University of Alberta with around 800 students. It was founded in Pincher Creek, Alberta in 1908 by an Oblate priest as a school to prepare members for life in the Oblate order of the Catholic Church. Three years later it moved to its current location in Edmonton along Mill Creek Ravine, six kilometres east of the University of Alberta North Campus. Over the years it transitioned into providing post-secondary education. In 1976, the Oblate priests sold Collège Saint-Jean to the University of Alberta, and in 1977 the name was changed to Faculté Saint-Jean. In October 2005 the francophone campus was renamed again to Campus Saint-Jean.

In September 1983 the library at Faculté Saint-Jean merged with the University of Alberta Libraries, adding approximately 100,000 volumes to the library’s collection. In January 1997 a spacious new Bibliotheque Saint-Jean was opened as a result of a $6 million dollar grant from the federal government. BSJ provides French-language materials in printed and electronic formats for Campus Saint-Jean’s programs in the areas of education, arts and social sciences, languages ​​and literature, health sciences, natural sciences, and business administration.