The Humanities and Social Sciences Library is located in the McLennan-Redpath Library Complex, which is made up of two buildings: the McLennan Library Building and the Redpath Library Building.

You can enter the library from either building from the Redpath terrace, via lower campus or McTavish Street.

map of ɬÀï·¬ campus with McLennan Library building and Redpath Library building and arrows pointing toward the entrance

McLennan Library Building

FloorDescriptionImage
M1/RM - Main floor

Floor plan

Services

  • Service Desk - Borrowing Services and In-Person Research Assistance
  • Self-serve reserves room (Hold requests, Course reserves, DVDs)
  • IT Service Desk
  • Office of the Dean of Libraries

Features

  • McLennan e-classroom
  • Exhibition area in the lobby
  • Guest computers
  • Self-check machines (lobby & self-serve reserve room)
  • 1 Zeta overhead book scanner
  • A/V viewing stations (in the self-serve reserves room)
  • 3 quiet pods
  • 2 phone/tablet charging stations
  • 1 laptop lending kiosk 
  • Lost and Found
main floor of the McLennan Library
MS - Street 
MB - BasementMcLennan Basement Storage 
M2 - 2nd Floor

Collections

  • Map collection (M2-72)
  • Microfilm collection

Services

Features

  • 6 adjustable/standing desks
  • Microfiche and microfilm readers (in Microfilm viewing room M2-37F)
  • Scanner for text, slides, and photo negatives (in Data Lab M2-37A)
  • Map scanner (in Map collection M2-72)
  • 1 phone/tablet charging station in lobby
  • 1 locker & laptop charging station in lobby
  • Washrooms
Study spaces on the second floor of McLennan
M3 - 3rd Floor

Collections

Humanities and Social Sciences - New Items, call numbers: A - Z

Services

Features

  • 1 locker & laptop charging station in lobby
  • Washrooms
sitting area on the third floor of the McLennan Library Building
M4- 4th Floor

Floor plan

Collections

Services

Features

  • Exhibition area in lobby
  • Visual Storage Gallery
  • Washrooms
Art wall on the fourth floor of the McLennan Library Building
M5 - 5th Floor

Services

Features

  • 8 adjustable/standing desks
  • 1 phone/tablet charging station in lobby
  • 1 locker & laptop charging station in lobby
  • Washrooms, gender-neutral washroom
two students sitting at desks on the McLennan fifth floor
M6 - 6th Floor

Services

Features

  • 8 adjustable/standing desks
  • 1 locker & laptop charging station in lobby
  • Washrooms, gender-neutral washroom
Tranquility zone on the sixth floor of McLennan

Redpath Library Building

FloorDescriptionImage
RM/M1 - Main floor

Floor plan

Services

  • (RM-07A to RM-07H, RM-19B, RM-19C, RM-22A to RM-22C)
  • ɬÀï·¬ Writing Centre
  • Redpath Exhibition Case
  • Redpath Book Display
  • Spiral staircase - access to Ph.D. study room

Features

  • Room A (Innovation Commons)
  • 2 adjustable/standing group study tables
  • Washrooms, gender-neutral washroom
Redpath main floor
RS - Street level

Services

  • Cyberthèque study spaces (Video-conferencing/ZOOM/Conversation Zone) 
  • Cyberthèque Pod 1-4
  • Redpath Café
  • Vending Machines (snacks, beverages, coffee, stationery)
  • Tunnel to Leacock Building (currently closed)

Features

  • David C. Edwards Cyberthèque Classroom
  • Washrooms
Cybertheque floor on the street level of Redpath
RB - BasementRedpath Basement Storage 
R2 - 2nd Floor

Floor plan

Services

  •  (R2-04, R2-06 to R2-10, R2-14, R2-15)
  • Ph.D. study room (accessible through the main floor via spiral staircase)
  • (Redpath Pod 1-3)

Features

  • Washrooms
study spaces on the second floor of Redpath
R3 - 3rd Floor

Services

Features

  • Exhibition area
  • Gender-neutral washroom
student studying on the third floor of Redpath
R4 - 4th Floor

Collections

  • Nobbs Room

Retrieve items from these collections by requesting the item for pickup through the or by inquiring at the service desk in Rare Books and Special Collections.