Loyalist College first began as a southern campus to Sir Sandford Fleming College and shared space with Centennial Secondary School. At that time, the Library started with 4,000 books. Two years later, Loyalist College had moved to its present site on Wallbridge-Loyalist Road. In 1971, the Library was located in the Pioneer Building where the collection had grown to 11,000 books. The head librarian was Mrs. Mary McConnell who held the position until 1978.

When the next Library was opened in the Hastings Wing in January 1973, it was called the Anderson Resource Centre to honour Judge J.C. Anderson. Judge Anderson was one person instrumental in bringing a community college to Belleville and helped in the site selection and building design. While Loyalist was affiliated with Sir Sandford Fleming, Judge Anderson was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors representing Loyalist. When Loyalist separated from Sir Sandford Fleming, Judge Anderson was the first Chairman of the Board. The Library collection was expanded when the Nursing School at Belleville General Hospital moved to the Northumberland Wing at Loyalist bringing the book collection to the Library.

Ron Boyce became Manager of the Library in 1978 and retired as Director, Educational Resources in 1992. By 1984, the Audio-Visual Department had grown to house a collection of 1,000 videotapes, 780 16mm films, as well as slides and filmstrips. In 1987, the Library took over the issuing of academic upgrading texts from the bookroom in the Pioneer Building. However, these class sets were kept in the Library workroom and not incorporated into the main collection.

Saturday openings were attempted in 1975 but failed due to lack of use. In 1990, it was attempted again with full-day service but again, due to lack of use, the library was only open Saturday afternoon. Today, the library is open seven days a week including weeknights Monday to Thursday and weekends during the day. In addition, our databases can be accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

In 1991, the Audio-visual collection had grown to include 1,600 videos as well as the films, kits, etc. Beatrice Lo became Director, Educational Resources in July 1992 until her retirement in November 1996. On January 26, 1993, Q-line was introduced to Loyalist College. This linked the Queens University Library catalogue to Loyalist College via a Telnet connection. In 1994, the Library acquired the CD ROM product GPO (General Periodicals OnDisc) This was just the start of the many CD-ROM and Online products now available in the Library. In the summer of 1995, the Library was re-carpeted in a lighter purple than the original, however, the orange chairs still remained.

In November 1996 Sally Wight officially took over the role of Director, Educational Resources. One of the first challenges she faced was a leaky roof in the Library. This could have posed some serious problems with all the computers in the Library, however, anything electrical was moved a safe distance away until the leak was patched. In conjunction with the 2003 double-cohort, Ontario Superbuild provided funding to create more spaces for the anticipated increase in enrollment in September 2003. The groundbreaking ceremony took place September 20th, 2002 to begin construction of a new Library to the North of the College, adjacent to Admissions.

The former Anderson Centre for Information Resources would be renamed the Parrott Centre as thanks to a generous donation of $1 Million dollars from Mr. and Mrs. John Parrott. The Library wishes to thank the Parrott Foundation for their generous donation toward this project.

To facilitate renovations to the existing space, the Library moved to portables at the back of the College in December of 2002. It would remain fully functional in portables (with closed stacks) until the move to the new facility. The official opening of the Parrott Centre was January 29th, 2004.

Today the Library is open 7 days a week during academic terms and with reduced hours during non-peak periods to students, staff, and faculty as well as citizens from the surrounding communities. Our online resources are available 24/7 to registered full-time students, faculty and staff. There are approximately 32,000 titles, 315 print periodical subscriptions, 2400 videos and DVDs, and numerous databases which provide access to over 14,000 journals and newspapers.