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Milton Good Library and Mennonite Archives of Ontario.

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The Mennonite Archives of Ontario collects, preserves, and makes available the recorded experience of Mennonites, Amish, and other related groups in Ontario. Learn more...

The Milton Good Library serves the teaching needs of the College in Music, PACS, Mennonite Studies, Religious Studies and Theology with a collection of over 40,000 items and access to key online databases. It is part of the TriUniversity Group of Libraries (TUG) system, a partnership of the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, and the University of Guelph. PRIMO is the online catalogue of TUG and includes the resources of all its member libraries. Our library holdings are identified by their location in the PRIMO system.

PRIMO catalogue	Hours and Access	Course reserves
Contact Us	Services	Mennonite Historical Library
MCEC pastors	Community borrowers	Book return and delivery
Food policy	Music guide	Donating Materials
About Milton Good	Peace & Conflict Studies guide	Mission & Policies

Library Hours and Access

Note: Fall Term hours begin Monday, September 12.

Fall and Winter Terms
Monday to Thursday 8:30 AM - 9:00 PM
Friday 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Saturday 1 PM - 5 PM
Closed Sundays and Statutory Holidays; Closed Christmas holidays from December 24, 2011 to January 2, 2012.

Spring Term (May to Labour Day)
Monday to Friday 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Closed Saturday, Sunday and Statutory Holidays

The library is located on the third floor of the Academic Building.

Elevator access is available through a keyed system. During normal office hours (8:30-4:30 M-F) check at the College's front desk for assistance; after hours use the intercom system next to the front office.

For Archives hours and services, see the Archives page.

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Services

Reference
Full time library staff are available Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to assist with reference and research needs.

Study space
Study carrels and tables are available in the Library for quiet study. Students in CGUC graduate programs can reserve carrels on a first-come first-served basis.

Computer access
Seven public computers with Internet connections and the Microsoft Office suite are available. Come prepared to save your work to an external drive as public terminal hard drives are wiped nightly.

The Library subscribes to many journals and other resources in electronic format. Access to most of these electronic resources is available to anyone using a public workstation in the Library.

Eduroam is a collaborative network that enables students, staff and faculty of a member institution to connect their personal computer devices to the wireless network at any partner institution in the same way as they do at their home institution. There is a brief description and instructions from IST for the first steps in setting up your computer.

Copying and printing
The Library photocopier near the circulation desk is equipped to accept WATCARD payment. A printer and scanners can be used at a cost of 10 cents per printed page.

Microform, video and audio equipment
A reader that can print or scan microform documents is available. CD players, cassette players and a record player are available for listening to sound recordings. Video tapes and DVDs can be viewed in the library.

Mennonite Archives of Ontario
For Archives hours and services, see the Archives page.

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Book return and delivery

Books taken out of the Milton Goodl Library may be returned to any of the TUG libraries or their designated book deposit boxes. The exception is reserve materials which must be returned directly to our library. A daily delivery system returns materials to the owning library.

The Milton Good Library can be designated as the pickup location for books requested by means of a hold or recall in PRIMO, articles requested through the TUGdoc journal article delivery service and print materials requested through the Interlibrary Loan Service, both available through the PRIMO system.

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Food policy

Please do not bring food to the library. Drinks are allowed in closed containers. Because our library doubles as an archival reading room, we need to be very cautious about the presence of food and drink. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Course reserves

How do I find reserves for my course?

Log in to Course Reserves using your WatIAM username and password. You should be taken to the Student Main Menu.
If the courses you are registered in for the current term have material on reserve, they will be listed in the “My Courses” table. Click on a course to see a list of items on reserve.
Click on an item’s title to find out call number, location, and current availability information for hard copy reserves and to view eReserves. Please bring the call number to the Circulation/Reserve desk when you want to borrow a hard copy item.
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MCEC Pastors

Pastors of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) are eligible to borrow books from the Milton Good Library free of charge as CGUC Constituency Users.

Persons who wish to borrow beyond our collection from other TUG libraries may purchase a Community User card for a $20 annual fee. It may be worthwhile to consider, as the libraries of St. Jerome’s University and Wilfrid Laurier University both have large religion collections. Pastors who are alumni of UW, WLU or University of Guelph may use their alumni card for TUG-wide library access, free of charge.

Ask for a pastors' library card at the Milton Good circulation desk during daytime library hours (ca. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.). It is recommended that you phone or email in advance to be sure someone is available to register your library card, or to prepare a card for you if you plan to visit outside of regular day-time hours. Contact Ruth Steinman, Assistant Librarian by phone (519-885-0220 ext. 24240) or email resteinm@uwaterloo.ca.

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Community borrowers

The Milton Good Library invites the community to discover what we have to offer. Anyone is welcome to use most of our resources in the library. If you want to borrow materials, your options are:

For an annual fee of $20, adults residing within Ontario may register for a year at a time. More information
alumni of UW, WLU or University of Guelph may use their alumni card for TUG-wide library access, free of charge. Obtain an alumni card from your home institution before coming to the library. More information
High school students from schools within Waterloo Region, Wellington Catholic School Board and the Upper Grand School Board may register for free; students must have a letter of introduction from a principal or school librarian validating their need to use an academic library (as of September 1 until the following June 15) More information
Members of organizations affiliated with the University, which have made special arrangement with the Library, may register free. More information

Community members may borrow regularly circulating books from any of the TUG libraries (University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Guelph) for two weeks and may renew those books indefinitely as long as no one else has recalled them.

Because of the teaching and research needs of our faculty and students, the following services are available to currently registered students only and cannot be extended to community borrower:

off-campus access to electronic resources restricted by vendor licence
borrowing of journals or magazines
borrowing of maps and aerial photographs
borrowing of items located in reserves
placing recalls of library material
interlibrary loan/document delivery services

It is recommended that you phone or email in advance to be sure someone is available to register your library card, or to prepare a card for you if you plan to visit outside of regular day-time hours. Contact Ruth Steinman, Assistant Librarian by phone (519-885-0220 ext. 24240) or email resteinm@uwaterloo.ca.

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Mennonite Historical Library

The Milton Good Library is one of the four major depositories of Mennonite materials in Canada, and the primary one in Ontario. As an historical library it receives Mennonite periodicals from around the world. Academic monographs may find works of popular and juvenile Mennonite fiction nearby. Monographs and periodicals are obtained in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and more. The library houses the largest collection in Canada of Anabaptist works. There is also a substantial family history library. These materials are all searchable through the library catalogue.

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Donating Materials to the Milton Good Library

Thank you for thinking of the needs of Milton Good Library users through your donation!

Please do not bring in donations unannounced. Before we can accept your donation into the collection, we will assess its value for the library. Some of the questions we ask are:

Is the donation in good physical condition?
Does the donation fit our policy to not duplicate materials we already have, or materials readily available within the TriUniversity Group of Libraries? If it is a duplicate, is the donated copy in better condition than the library’s copy?
Does the donation fit with our policy to acquire materials in the areas of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies, Music, Peace and Conflict Studies, Religious Studies, or graduate Theological Studies? Does it fit the current teaching and research needs of the College?

Donated materials that do not become part of the library collection will be disposed of to the mutual satisfaction of the donor and the library. Some options include:

Recycling (particularly for books in poor condition)
Returning to donor, if requested. Please make this request at time of donation.
Making materials available for free to library visitors
Sale, with the proceeds to the library/archives (Particularly for books with Mennonite or Anabaptist interest)
Passing materials along to another library or organization

According to our guidelines, donated materials that are accepted into the library collection may be eligible for a tax receipt if their fair market value exceeds $100. Fair market appraisals of less than $1000 will be done by the librarian. When the valuation exceeds $1000, the appraisal must be based on the evaluation by a qualified independent expert. Gifts valued at less than $100 will only be acknowledged if, in the opinion of the librarian, the gift constitutes material of out-standing intrinsic merit to the library. If you wish to have your donation considered for tax receipt status, please notify the library in advance of your donation.

The Archivist-Librarian, Laureen Harder-Gissing, will gladly answer any questions you might have.

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About Milton Good

Born on a small farm now within the city of Waterloo, Milton Good became a leader in business and the community. He was instrumental in the founding of a Mennonite college at University of Waterloo, becoming its first board chair in 1961.

Self-educated after high school, he valued learning and read widely. Among many charitable interests, he placed his highest hopes in Conrad Grebel University College. The Library was named in his honour in 2011.

Milton R. Good facing the site on which Conrad Grebel University College will be built, October 1963.

Milton Good looking across Laurel Creek to the Conrad Grebel University College building site, October, 1963. Mennonite Archives of Ontario photo HM10-24.21

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