New Library inaugurated at the Cottonera Resource Centre

A new library has been inaugurated at the Cottonera Resource Centre (Ċentru), Vittoriosa, further strengthening the University’s commitment to making knowledge and learning resources accessible to the community.

As from October 2025, the library will open its doors to the public twice a week, offering a welcoming space for study, research, and personal enrichment.

This initiative underscores the University’s ongoing efforts to bring academic resources closer to local communities, encouraging engagement, lifelong learning, and a stronger culture of reading within the Cottonera region.

The Director of the Centre, Dr Katya De Giovanni, highlighted the importance of having a library at the very heart of Cottonera.

She explained that the Centre already provides a wide range of services to the community, and the new library will add further value by offering book lending facilities.

These books will be registered not only at the University’s main campus in Msida but also across its other campuses, ensuring full integration with the wider University system.

Dr De Giovanni also noted that the Centre may experiment with technological kits in the future, as part of its commitment to expanding and diversifying the services the University offers in Cottonera.

Dr Patrick Camilleri was invited to participate; as an expert in AI in education; in the opening of this library. There, Dr Camilleri had the opportunity to discuss the importance of the centre, as a physical space to facilitate lifelong learning and also bridge between modern transformative technologies such as AI with conventional materials such as books. He also emphasised the importance of such physical spaces in consolidating critical thinking, collaboration between people and the enriching the qualities that make us uniquely human.

The Tessie Camilleri Library, honouring the legacy of the first woman to graduate in literature from the University of Malta in 1922, will be open on Mondays and Thursdays, providing the community with regular access to its rich collections and resources.