Arts 140: Modern Protest Movements (Fall 2022): Your library connection

On this page, you will find general information about the Library. 

On the other two pages, you will find information specifically for the in-library sessions for those dates.

Mike Chee will be starting on October 17, 2022 as the new History and Political Science Librarian. His contact information will be available on this Guide on that date.

"Porter" houses materials of interest to researchers in the Arts and Social Sciences. It also has wonderful work spaces. Start your tour on any floor and just explore. This is YOUR library!

Clickable floor plans

1st floor (basement)

• Special Collections and Archives (SCA)
  • In-person appointments available. For researchers who wish to work at a distance, contact SCA
    • Window exhibit: Welcome (back) to Campus

      
      Tiddlywinks Marathon at Waterloo Square

• Microroom. Find reproductions of books, newspapers, government documents, and more that have been photographically reduced to save space. Staff can help you use the room's machine readers to view and scan this content.
• Comfy seating

2nd floor (main floor)

• Circulation and course reserves desk
  • sign out and return books; arrange for research help here
• Printing, copying, and scanning
• Browsers Café 
• IT service desk
• Adaptive Technology Centre
• Waterloo Reads popular books you can sign out

 
Dana Porter Library's Waterloo Reads: popular books, main floor

3rd floor

• Learning Lab and Computer Lab
• Geospatial Centre
• Print periodicals; government documents
• Vending machines
• Bookable group study rooms
• Sims Reading room

Dana Porter Library's Sims Reading Room, 3rd floor

4th and 5th floors: staff only

6th - 10th floors

• Great views, stop and take a look
• Find a floor that suits the day

Silent study: floors 7 & 8
Quiet study: floors 6 & 9
Group study: floor 10

• Bookable group study rooms
• Browsable bookshelves

Dana Porter Library's, 6th floor bookshelves

Top of the self-guided tour box

 
Photo held by Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.

Find more materials relating to the activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Omni, the library's catalogue.

• Find relevant guides from the over 65 broad subject areas 
• For example, the History Research Guide

• Others of possible interest:
  • Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism: Critical Histories
  • Indigenous Research Guide

Don't hesitate to contact Sandra Keys, the Librarian for this course, for research help.

skeys@uwaterloo.ca

Silent study: floors 7 & 8
Quiet study: floors 6 & 9
Group study: floor 10