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The Musagetes Architecture Library is located on the second floor of the School of Architecture Building
in Cambridge. It is a branch library in the University of Waterloo Library system. Containing over 30,000
volumes and 75 current print and electronic journals, the library's collection supports the teaching
and research of faculty and students in the School of Architecture.
THE COLLECTION
Subjects covered by the library's collection include architectural design, theory, history, and
criticism, historic preservation, building technology, industrial design, landscape architecture,
interior design, and urban design. The collection includes reference resources, 5th year and
Master's theses, a small product catalogues section, and selected plans of local buildings.
Access of journal articles is provided online through the Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals.
RARE BOOKS
A separate, environmentally controlled Rare Book Room houses one of Canada's most outstanding
collections of rare books on architecture and design. Landmark titles in the history and theory
of architecture, exemplary treatises from the sixteenth to the twentieth century supportive of
the School of Architecture's cultural history emphasis, and texts outlining architectural
developments in Northern Europe and on the North American frontier, which have a profound effect
on architectural theory and urban development in Canada, form the core of the collection. All
rare book materials are listed in TRELLIS, the library catalogue, and are available for viewing upon request.
TRIUNIVERSITY GROUP
In 1995, the libraries of the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University formed a
partnership enhance services and resources. Faculty and students have borrowing privileges at all three
university libraries and have access to research databases, digital mapping, and electronic
texts on a wide variety of subjects.