Libraries/Collections
WELCOME TO THE W. D. JORDAN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY
Special Collections at Queen's is a rich and diverse research resource containing a wide range of materials acquired either through purchase or donation over the last 160 years since the inception of the University. In the course of building Queen's library collections, library staff route items requiring special preservation to the Jordan Library's environmentally-controlled stacks.
Today, the collection (including the Canadiana collections) numbers in excess of 120,000 volumes. Still present are the original six volumes donated to Queen's in 1840 by Judge James Mitchell, M.A.: a Latin Bible (1592), a Greek New Testament (1760), a French New Testament (1664), a Greek lexicon (1821), and a copy of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding (1760) in two volumes.
Photo: The Special Collections Reading Room in the W.D. Jordan Library.
Library location: Southeast corner of Union St. and University Ave., Kingston, Ontario