About the Agnes Baxter Reading Room

The Agnes Baxter Reading Room is the library of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie University, and is part of Science Services within the Dalhousie Library System. It is located on the ground floor (Room 119) of the Chase Building, the home of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. The university public and the public at large have access to the Reading Room from Monday to Friday during regular office hours (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Summer hours: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.).

The Agnes Baxter Reading Room houses primarily

most mathematics journals,
about half of all Dalhousie statistics journals,
the most important reviewing journals;

see the list of journals for more details. Furthermore, there are

a small reference section,
mathematics, statistics and computing science theses written at Dalhousie,
two photocopying machines (one of them coin-operated),
a computer terminal, primarily for access to internet library resources.

Library materials in the Agnes Baxter Reading Room are non-circulating, but the Reading Room is a pleasant place for faculty, graduate students and visitors to work and study.

This reading room houses the largest serials collection in Mathematics and Statistics in the Maritime Provinces, and provides regular document delivery services (through the usual delivery channels) to users throughout the region.

Mathematics and Statistics books and the remaining journals are located in the Killam Library, a short distance form the Chase Building; see the NOVANET library catalogue. A separate list of collected works in Mathematics and Statistics is being maintained at this site.

For questions or comments, please write to the Department Library Representative (Karl Dilcher) at (dilcher@mscs.dal.ca).

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