The Simona Maaskant Library

The Simona Maaskant Library is dedicated to the memory of a special person in The King's University College community. Simona Maaskant, the librarian between 1981 and 1998, provided extraordinary leadership in building the library into a beautiful and functional resource for students, faculty and staff. Simona passed away on April 26, 1998 from cancer. She will be remembered by the community at King's for her cheerful personality, her faithful friendship and her generous and gentle spirit.

The Simona Maaskant Library on The King's University College campus features over 100,000 books, periodicals, CD-ROMs and other material available on site, and over 5 million items are available through the NEOS Consortium.

The NEOS Library Consortium is a cooperative consortium of libraries including academic, government, hospital and special libraries in Alberta. Students have borrowing privileges at all NEOS libraries and are able to request items for delivery to King's. The Library is also a member of the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL), comprising 19 libraries in Western Canada, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network and TAL (The Alberta Library).

Our library provides study carrels and tables for quiet study and reading, facilities for viewing/listening to media, interlibrary loans, and printers/photocopiers. . In addition we provide general and course-specific instruction in research and library use.

Our Instructional Librarian and other staff are willing to assist you in meeting your information needs.