There are lots of places to study here on campus, including five libraries and a plethora of more private study rooms. For library hours, see library.queensu.ca.
School of Medicine Building (SMB) formerly known as New Medical Building (NMB)
SMB is our home away from home (and during exam season, its pretty much just our home) and is accessible 24/7 to medical students. It is filled with study rooms with whiteboards and TV monitors with HDMI hookups which are really useful for studying and doing group study. You can book the rooms via an online room booking system.
Bracken Health Sciences Library
Bracken Library is conveniently located in Botterell Hall, just across the street from SMB. There are group study rooms that can be booked and very comfortable chairs on the main floor that are more conducive to napping than studying. The basement level is the quiet study area, and has many tables and cubicles that are perfect for diving into a textbook. This is the best place to go if you will need textbooks or reference material.
Stauffer Library
The newest, nicest and largest of the campus libraries, Stauffer is the humanities and social sciences library at Queen’s, and is the main study library for undergraduate students. It offers a variety of studying needs – brightly-lit rooms, dimly-lit rooms, cubicles, booths, cushy chairs, not so cushy chairs and even fireplace reading rooms that are kept so quiet that even the tap-tapping of fingers on a keyboard is strictly regulated. The upper floors are frequented by much quieter albeit more intense studiers.
Douglas Library
This is the engineering library, located diagonally across from Stauffer. It has many basement levels for cave-dwelling studiers. It also has a very nice space with stained glass windows on the 3rd floor commonly referred to as the Harry Potter Room, and across the hall is the White Room, the most intense study room on campus.
Lederman Law Library
This is the library located in the law building, McDonald Hall. It is definitely the quietest library you’ll find, and they do have some fancy furniture in there. But beware: law students are not terribly keen at the prospect of their library being invaded by SNAILS, Students Not Actually In Law School.
Other Options
There are, of course, alternatives to libraries. The Polson Room in the JDUC is reserved for quiet study. The third floor of the new Queen’s Centre also offers numerous meeting rooms and study spaces. There is also a medical student study room in the basement of Etherington Hall.
Starbucks and Crave Coffee are two popular options for studying off-campus, but be aware of other diners who may not be so appreciative of you studying the perineum in public.