MacOdrum Library

Lose or forget something in the Library? Our Lost and Found services are at the Library Services Desk on the second floor.

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The Carleton Library Series (CLS) is the most enduring and significant initiative taken in the history of Canadian publishing where the editing, reprinting, and dissemination of documents important to the history of the place we now call Canada is concerned.

Our latest exhibit is a display of Library staff hobbies on the first floor near the tunnel entrance. We have a wide-range of talents displayed, from Dungeons and Dragons to quilting and gaming and cross-stitching. Stop by on your way in to take a look through this exhibit!

Our next AI mini-course is coming up in a couple of days and this free course still has registration space open! This micro-course helps students of all levels create their own “Personal Mark Up Language” and research management style—a system of annotations, call-outs, and organizational strategies that reflect how they engage with research materials. Students will learn how to interact with texts and develop a research workflow using tools like Zotero, spreadsheets, and tagging systems. Register at library.carleton.ca/aiminicourses

Our next AI mini-course is coming up in a couple of days and this free course still has registration space open!

Students will learn how to interact with texts and develop a research workflow using tools like Zotero, spreadsheets, and tagging systems.

Register at library.carleton.ca/aiminicourses

The floor will be blocked off prior to the start of the event at 2:30 p.m.

The ITS Help Desk will provide their services from their support desk on the second floor from 2:30 p.m. on Friday, January 23 until they close at 4:30 p.m.

Later this month, Carleton University will be hosting the annual three-day Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) of approximately 350 students from across Ontario. One of the main events of this competition will be held on Friday, January 23 from 2:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. on the 4th floor of the Library.

Hours from January 5 to February 14
Monday to Thursday: 7:30am - midnight
Friday: 7:30am - 9pm
Saturday: 10am - 9pm
Sunday: 10am - midnight
Note: only floors 1 and 2 are open after 10pm

Register for our Fact or fabrication? Navigating information in the AI era micro-course! The session will include a presentation from library staff members, discussions as a group, as well as hands-on exercises for participants.

During the month of January, study rooms 234A, 234B, 234C, and 234D will be unavailable for use due to construction. Apologies for any inconvenience - please visit them in the future to see the exciting changes!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, we're open 24 hours. Friday we close at midnight. Saturday we are open 10 a.m. to midnight and on Sunday we open at 10 a.m. to do it all over again.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, we're open 24 hours.
Friday we close at midnight.
Saturday we are open 10 a.m. to midnight and on Sunday we open at 10 a.m. to do it all over again.

A note that only floors 1 and 2 are open after 10 p.m. and only floor 1 is open from midnight to 7:30 a.m.

Medicinal plants, an old brown and gold rare book in our collection.

For each $75 donation, receive a letterpress printed broadside, created in the Book Arts Lab, of William Carlos Williams poem “Raleigh Was Right”.

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Today is Giving Tuesday, I hope you will consider a donation to support our Rare Book Initiatives. Enhanced rare book collections provide unique access to items not available in regular library holdings. Students can access the past in real time and make it more tangible.

pictures of the journal of susanna moodie

New to the rare book collection this year is The Journals of Susanna Moodie by Margaret Atwood. A rare, boxed folio, this work is a limited-edition manuscript printed in 1980 and is 1 of 120 copies. This work of poetry is typeset with original serigraphs and is printed on handmade rag paper.

We have a board game collection with over 200 items. And you can borrow any of them. Make your request in Omni and pick up your game at the Library Services Desk. Visit our website and set up your game night.

We have a board game collection with over 200 items. And you can borrow any of them.

Make your request in Omni and pick up your game at the Library Services Desk. Visit our website and set up your game night.

Library building hours October 26 to December 6: Monday to Thursday: 7:30 a. m. to midnight Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday: 10 a.m. to midnight Note: only floors 1 and 2 are open after 10 p.m.

Library building hours October 26 to December 6:
Monday to Thursday: 7:30 a. m. to midnight
Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to midnight
Note: only floors 1 and 2 are open after 10 p.m.

Take Back the Press Event poster with event details

The Take Back the Press: Treaty Recognition Week Event takes place TODAY in the Book Arts Lab. Participants will have the opportunity to listen to guest speaker David Serkoak, to try their hand at lino cutting, and setting type to make posters on the Book Arts Lab printing presses.

math problems written on a whiteboard in a library space

Every time I see a whiteboard or blackboard like this, I think I'm going to solve something and get immediate entrance into a doctoral mathematics program.

There will a possibility of noise on the North side of the Library for the next few weeks as work takes place on Library Road.

Our graphic novel collection has moved to the front of the first floor! They are now located behind the Ask Us! Desk on floor 1, across from the computer lab. Take a look through the collection and find something that's best for you!

Research in Residence sessions start up again soon! Research in Residence is an initiative by the library to bring Research Support Services to students living in residence right in Teraanga Commons. The first session is October 1 from 2 to 4 p.m.

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The CrossCraft Patter Systems exhibit explores how foundational techniques from traditional crafts including knitting, quilting, embroidery, and macrame, can inspire new approaches to visual pattern-making in contemporary design.

image of text from caption and a coffee cup with the Library logo.

Join the Data Services team for a Data Drip session and learn about data in little bits of information at a time! These sessions are open to the entire Carleton Community!

The first session is on Thursday, October 16, 2025.

The Library is committed to supporting the Carleton community in navigating and leveraging artificial intelligence tools responsibly and effectively.

Here are additional resources offering further insight into our approach:

It's entirely possible you go into a space without ever viewing its Code of Conduct. But, we just updated ours and we want to share it with you: library.carleton.ca/about/polici...

Milo the therapy dog will be in the Library today at 1 p.m. by the Wellness Desk (on the second floor).

Stop by between 1 and 2 for a visit!

Therapy Dogs Schedule - Mental Health and Wellness

We are once again hosting the CU Therapy Dog program. Stop by the main floor near the Wellness Desk on the second floor of the Library each week to visit with Magnus and Milo and Loki and Jazz and Bauer and Callie. The complete therapy dog schedule: wellness.carleton.ca/therapy-dogs...

Chat or Text Help Hours

Hours from September 2 to December 5
Monday to Thursday: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 12 to 6 p.m.

Check library.carleton.ca/hours for the most up-to-date listings.

Make sure you know the Library building and chat hours to get the most out of our services throughout the year!

Building Hours
Hours from September 2 to October 18
Monday to Thursday: 7:30 a.m. to midnight
Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to midnight

We are pleased to share that Jamila Hastick has been selected to participate in FLOURISH, a new library leadership program being piloted by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL). Jamila has also been awarded a bursary from CARL to support her participation in the program.