About the Library

Welcome to the Dr. John Micallef Memorial Library

The Dr. John Micallef Memorial Library serves students and faculty of Corpus Christi College, St. Mark’s College, and B.C.’s theological community. We are found on the first floor of the St. Mark’s College Chapel building. Our collection specializes in philosophy, spirituality, theology, religious education, pastoral studies and Church history.

To search our collection, click on the search link under Library Catalogue to access THEOLOG, the combined catalogue of Carey theological College, Regent College, St. Mark's College and the Vancouver School of Theology.
 

THEOLOG, Library Catalogue of the Consortium of Theological libraries on UBC campus

St. Mark's Library is a member of THEOLOG, the shared catalogue of the consortium of theological colleges on the UBC campus representing the collections of:

• Dr. John Micallef Memorial Library, at St. Mark's College
• John Richard Allison Library, at Regent College (a joint collection of Regent and Carey Theological College)
• H.R. MacMillan Theological Library at the Vancouver School of Theology

The four colleges are independent institutions that formed a consortium to list all their library holdings in one joint catalogue, accessing over 200,000 records across the three libraries.

Students, faculty and staff at all four colleges have borrowing privileges at the consortium libraries with individual institution's library card memberships. 

*Please note that each library has its own registration, library cards, and borrowing privileges (loan rules). Borrowers are responsible for adhering to each institution's loan policies and restrictions.

Messages and Events

Congratulations to all continuing students now finished with exams and papers, we look forward to seeing you back in September. And to our upcoming graduating students, congratulations and good luck in all your future endeavors. See you at Convocation!

-St. Mark's library staff

Welcome to the Dr. John Micallef Memorial Library at St. Mark’s & Corpus Christi College

The library is named in memory of Dr. John Micallef. Dr. Micallef was born in Victoria, Gozo and educated at the Lyceum in Valetta, Malta. He received a BA (Hons.) in languages from the University of London and an MA in Comparative Philosophy (Linguistics). Further studies included a Licentiate in Philosophy (magna cum laude) at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy and Heythrop College, Oxford, UK. Dr. Micallef was a fellow of the Philosophical Society of England and a Fellow of the College of Preceptors, England. He was a Professor of Philosophy and a student of theology for much of his adult life and held various teaching positions in a number of Canadian and American universities. He published widely in his chosen fields of philosophy and linguistics. He was fluent in English, Italian, Maltese, French, Latin, and Spanish and had a working knowledge of Classical Greek, Classical Arabic, Classical Hebrew, German, and Portuguese.

In early 2005, the Micallef family donated their father’s book collection to Corpus Christi College and St. Mark’s College and set up an endowment fund to provide for the ongoing development of the Library. In recognition of this gift, the Colleges renamed their library the Dr. John Micallef Memorial Library.