New library at Judge Business School opens

£137k in donations from the business school’s alumni, other well wishers and friends of Cambridge University were combined with a grant from the Science Research Investment Fund, facilitated by the Cambridge University Development Office, to enable a major renovation project in 2006. The total project budget of £705k provided much needed additional space through the installation of a mezzanine gallery in the existing gallery.

The School’s library has seen impressive growth since it was first opened in 1996 and now boasts the capability of supporting over 600 members from the School, including MBA, final year Tripos (MST), PhD, five MPhil and two distance learning courses, as well as members from a range of departments elsewhere in the University. The mezzanine gallery will house the School’s expanding collection and provide additional space for users.

The official ceremony will be led by Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director, Judge Business School and Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, Master of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge.

Professor Arnoud De Meyer said, “We are thrilled to mark the completion of this project, research is at the very heart of the School, our library is a vital “information gateway” where interdisciplinary collaboration and the dissemination of ideas can take place. That so many of our alumni and friends provided such generous donations is testament to the school’s ethos of a virtuous circle of life-long learning.”