Please note that our study areas are strictly reserved for McGill students.听
In order to accommodate the volume of requests, the library does not grant study spaces to听faculty members.
Assignment Priority Ranking
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library has 53 Ph.D. study rooms, which can accommodate up to 87 Ph.D. students.
Desks are assigned according to the following priorities:
- Doctoral students preparing their theses听
- Postdoctoral fellows听without any other office space on McGill campus
- Other doctoral students as identified by the Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
All applications should be submitted using the online form. The allocation of desks will be undertaken on the principle of 鈥渇irst-come first-served鈥�.
Other specialized accommodation for doctoral students听includes听graduate study rooms, carrels and lockers听located in McLennan Library Building.
Terms of Use
Students not following the policies will be asked to return their study space key:
- Rooms are checked once a month for cleanliness.
- Students occupying a PhD room space are not entitled to an extra Carrel or locker space within the library.
- If students have a Carrel desk and/or a locker checked out to their library account, they need to return their Carrel and Locker cards in order to be eligible for a PhD study room.
- It is the student鈥檚 responsibility to never allow unassigned individuals into the rooms.
- The desks will be available for use only during the library鈥檚 opening hours.
- All library material must be signed out at the Service Desk (Main Floor).
- Recall notices are sent by e-mail. Late recalled books are charged $5/day until the book is returned.
- Books no longer needed should be dropped in the Return Bin (Main Floor).
- Eating is not permitted and beverages must be kept in mugs with closed lids.
- Valuable personal belongings should not be kept in the lockable drawers, as the Library is not responsible for lost or stolen property.
- Students are not permitted to move any furniture or equipment into the room.
- For safety measurements, students are not permitted to install posters or cover door windows.
- A fine of $30 will be charged for the late return of key.
- A fee of $100 will be charged for replacement of a lost key.
- Current library policies and code of behaviour听will be applied:听/library/branches/hssl/library-use-policy
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