We encourage campus and community groups to consider their own non-paper promotional activities in place of posters and handouts. Poster boards are not available in campus libraries.  

General Guidelines

Queen’s University Library, a centre for sharing ideas and intellectual growth, welcomes educational and creative displays from the Queen’s University community highlighting learning and research.

The Library has a variety of venues including exhibit areas and display cases. Please select a location and fill in the form to make your request.

All Queen's University Library records that contain personal information about users of the Library are confidential and will not be disclosed to anyone other than the user, except where required by law.

This policy is in conformance with the Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). For more information about FIPPA, visit Queen's University's Access & Privacy website.

Library Policies

Please note some of our policies are undergoing revision.

Vision

Queen’s University Library inspires learning, sparks creativity and builds community. Entering our libraries – virtual and physical – our students and faculty feel the world at their fingertips, the knowledge of the ages and the potential of the future. This community of learning and research, this library, is the keystone of our balanced academy where people engage deeply with each other to ask critical questions and build new ideas.

Overview

Most reading rooms and general study areas in the library are not available for booking as these spaces are an integral part of the library public research space. Events in these areas, while the library is open, would be disruptive to library use.

The exceptions to this general policy are:

Queen's University Library has signed license agreements with vendors and publishers to provide Queen's University students, faculty, and staff with access to thousands of electronic resources (databases, e-journals, e-books, data, etc.) to support their teaching, learning, and research activities.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the library is unable to accept donations of physical materials.  However, we continue to gratefully accept financial donations designated for the purchase of new materials and/or for the conservation of our collections. Your support is essential for us to accomplish our important mission.

Academic libraries across the country are experiencing significant challenges to their information resources budgets, and Queen’s University is no exception.

Our library will be working with the university community to shape the way forward, as we grapple with the dramatic change in the value of the Canadian dollar in addition to ongoing inflationary increases. The drastic decline in the value of our dollar has effectively increased the costs of most information resources by more than 20% in the past two fiscal years.

Queen’s University Library and Archives are part of a vast information ecosystem in which collections of scholarly resources and archival material are central to the teaching and research activities and mission of the university. As one of the oldest universities in the country and a prominent institution in its local region, Queen’s has considerable collection strengths and access to the global knowledge commons.