Executive Brief

Vice-Provost & University Librarian
Queen’s University

September 2020

About Queen’s University

Queen’s University is situated on the territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek.

Queen’s University is a community with more than 175 years of tradition, an international reputation for academic excellence and research, over 25,000 exceptional students, and a beautiful waterfront campus consisting of limestone buildings and modern facilities. Queen’s students, faculty, and staff come from every imaginable background – small towns and suburbs, urban high-rises, Indigenous communities, and from more than 109 countries around the world.

With its strong tradition of public service, the University has helped to shape Canadian values and policies, educating notable political and cultural figures.

Queen’s is a full-spectrum, research-intensive university that conducts leading-edge research in a variety of areas, centred on six research themes that reflect core and emerging strengths:

1. Securing Successful and Just Societies through Scholarship, Governance and Policy

2. Fundamental Principles of Nature: from Discovery to Application and Innovation

3. Mobilizing Creativity and Enabling Cultures

4. Health, Wellness and the Determinants of Human Health

5. Sustainability, Environment and Resources

6. Interdisciplinary Research in Materials, Computational Analytics and Human-Machine Interactions

The campus has a fully integrated network of six libraries and is home to several outstanding museums and arts facilities, including the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.

For more information about Queen’s, please visit: www.queensu.ca

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