University of Western Ontario

Campus

The university covers 1.6 km² of land on the North Branch of the Thames River. The main campus consists of 75 buildings, and the university also has land holdings outside of the main campus. The library system at Western has seven major service locations with more than 7.7 million items in print, microform and electronic formats. Together, they constitute one of the largest research library systems in Canada. There are many special collections, such as those in the areas of Canadiana, Art History, Sport History, Music and Law. Western?s libraries are:

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• Archives and Research Collections Centre
• Business Library
• Education Library
• John and Dotsa Bitove Family Law Library
• Music Library
• Allyn and Betty Taylor Library
• The D.B. Weldon Library

Athletics facilities on campus include the 8,000 seat TD Waterhouse Stadium, the Thompson Recreation and Athletic Centre, which contains an ice rink, an indoor track, curling sheets and tennis facilities, and Alumni Hall, a multi-purpose auditorium for basketball, volleyball and other indoor events.

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The campus is also the home of art and performance facilities, retail and food outlets and McIntosh Gallery, the oldest university art gallery in Canada.

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