Hours
- Library Hours
- Complete opening hours
- Research Help Desk
- Mon - Thu: 9am - 8pm
- Fri: 9am - 5pm
- Sat: 1pm - 5pm
- Sun: CLOSED
- ITS Help Desk (Commons)
- Mon - Thu: 8am - 10pm
- Fri: 8am - 5pm
- Sat - Sun: 1pm - 5pm
- Additional ITS support
- Accessibility Centre
- Open: library hours
- Staffed
- Mon - Tue: 9am - 4pm
- Thu - Fri: 9am - 4pm
- Writing Centre
- Drop-In Hours:
- Bookable sessions: Call 452-6346
- Commons Café
- Mon - Fri: 8am - 3pm
Today's News
- HIL Food Policy
- Food is permitted in the Commons Cafe ONLY. Thank you for your cooperation.
- Library Laptops
- Wireless laptops are available to UNB students for a 2-hour "in-library" loan. Please ask at the Commons Service Desk.
- IT Help in the HIL
- Need help connecting to the UNB wireless network? Ask for assistance at our ITS Help Desk.
- Lost & Found
- Have you lost your usb stick, your keys, or your mind? Check our "Lost & Found" collection at the Commons Service Desk.
- Phone Zones
- Please set phones to vibrate and move to our designated "Phone Zones" in the stairwells to chat-thanks!
Welcome
The John B. McNair Learning Commons is a vibrant, student-centered learning space encompassing the first floor of the Harriet Irving Library. We offer an enriched learning environment for students incorporating service points, social learning space, technology, and study space for individuals and groups. The space is designed to provide comfortable and well-equipped surroundings conducive to learning.
Highlights of the Learning Commons include group study rooms, enhanced workstations supporting a suite of software, viewing stations to access multimedia resources in the library’s collection, an Accessibility Centre and the Commons Café. Collaborating with the Library to offer services in the Learning Commons are UNB’s ITS Services, Student Affairs & Services and Writing Centre.
- Phase Two Renovations Begin
- Renovations begin on March 7 in the Harriet Irving Library to make way for new group study rooms. The area affected is on the main floor and includes the Demo Room and adjacent offices.
- Thank you for your patience as HIL moves forward with Phase Two of our Learning Commons project.
Information sessions about our new Learning Commons are underway around the campus. These sessions are designed to inform interested parties of our progress and to gather feedback about our plans.