The Humanities and Social Sciences Library is located in the McLennan-Redpath Library Complex, which is made up of two buildings: the McLennan Library Building and the Redpath Library Building.

You can enter the library from either building from the Redpath terrace, via lower campus or McTavish Street.

map of McGill campus with McLennan Library building and Redpath Library building and arrows pointing toward the entrance

McLennan Library Building

FloorDescriptionImage
M1/RM - Main floor

Floor plan

Services

  • Service Desk - Borrowing Services and In-Person Research Assistance
  • Self-serve reserves room (Hold requests, Course reserves, DVDs)
  • IT Service Desk
  • Office of the Dean of Libraries

Features

  • McLennan e-classroom
  • Exhibition area in the lobby
  • Guest computers
  • Self-check machines (lobby & self-serve reserve room)
  • 1 Zeta overhead book scanner
  • A/V viewing stations (in the self-serve reserves room)
  • 3 quiet pods
  • 2 phone/tablet charging stations
  • 1 laptop lending kiosk 
  • Lost and Found
main floor of the McLennan Library
MS - Street 
MB - BasementMcLennan Basement Storage 
M2 - 2nd Floor

Collections

  • Map collection (M2-72)
  • Microfilm collection

Services

Features

  • 6 adjustable/standing desks
  • Microfiche and microfilm readers (in Microfilm viewing room M2-37F)
  • Scanner for text, slides, and photo negatives (in Data Lab M2-37A)
  • Map scanner (in Map collection M2-72)
  • 1 phone/tablet charging station in lobby
  • 1 locker & laptop charging station in lobby
  • Washrooms
Study spaces on the second floor of McLennan
M3 - 3rd Floor

Collections

Humanities and Social Sciences - New Items, call numbers: A - Z

Services

Features

  • 1 locker & laptop charging station in lobby
  • Washrooms
sitting area on the third floor of the McLennan Library Building
M4- 4th Floor

Floor plan

Collections

Services

Features

  • Exhibition area in lobby
  • Visual Storage Gallery
  • Washrooms
Art wall on the fourth floor of the McLennan Library Building
M5 - 5th Floor

Services

Features

  • 8 adjustable/standing desks
  • 1 phone/tablet charging station in lobby
  • 1 locker & laptop charging station in lobby
  • Washrooms, gender-neutral washroom
two students sitting at desks on the McLennan fifth floor
M6 - 6th Floor

Services

Features

  • 8 adjustable/standing desks
  • 1 locker & laptop charging station in lobby
  • Washrooms, gender-neutral washroom
Tranquility zone on the sixth floor of McLennan

Redpath Library Building

FloorDescriptionImage
RM/M1 - Main floor

Floor plan

Services

Features

  • Room A (Innovation Commons)
  • 2 adjustable/standing group study tables
  • Washrooms, gender-neutral washroom
Redpath main floor
RS - Street level

Services

  • Cyberthèque study spaces (Video-conferencing/ZOOM/Conversation Zone) 
  • Group study Cyberthèque Pod 1-4
  • Redpath Café
  • Vending Machines (snacks, beverages, coffee, stationery)
  • Tunnel to Leacock Building (currently closed)

Features

  • David C. Edwards Cyberthèque Classroom
  • Washrooms
Cybertheque floor on the street level of Redpath
RB - BasementRedpath Basement Storage 
R2 - 2nd Floor

Floor plan

Services

Features

  • Washrooms
study spaces on the second floor of Redpath
R3 - 3rd Floor

Services

Features

  • Exhibition area
  • Gender-neutral washroom
student studying on the third floor of Redpath
R4 - 4th Floor

Collections

Retrieve items from these collections by requesting the item for pickup through the catalogue or by inquiring at the service desk in Rare Books and Special Collections.