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SOCY 122: Introduction to Academic Library Research

Course guide library research tutorial

Queen's University Library

Queen’s University Library includes the Bracken Health Sciences Library, the Douglas Library (Engineering and Science and W.D. Jordan Special Collections), the Education Library, the Lederman Law Library, Stauffer Library, and the University Archives. 

The Joseph S. Stauffer Library is the Business, Humanities and Social Sciences library, and houses the majority of the sociology collection of books and printed journals.  

Welcome Video

Welcome to Queen’s University Library! This short video will introduce you to the Library’s spaces, services and resources.

Queen's Library Collections

Queen's Library subscribes to over 650 specialized databases and article indexes, several hundred thousand electronic books, 80,000 electronic journals and newspapers, and has well over 2 million physical (non-electronic) items including over 1.65 million books.

Borrowing from Libraries Beyond Queen's

We have services to get you the materials you need from other university libraries, and from any of our locations across campus. You can request print books that Queen's Library doesn't own from within Omni, or if our copy of a book you want is signed out, you can request a copy from one of our Omni partner libraries, if they have the book you need. You can also request to borrow items from other university libraries outside of our Omni partner network, using our Omni. For more information, refer to the library's information page on Interlibrary Loan.