Study choices
Floors progress from collaborative and conversational space to quiet individual study. Rooms can be reserved online.
Help
Librarians, Writing Center consultants, tutors and technology staff provide coordinated assistance.
Extended access
A card-access study zone, computers and printing remain open beyond staffed library hours during the semester.
Loud to quiet, bottom to top
The building is organised by noise level: group rooms and the café on Level 1, individual study on Level 3, and a silent reading room on Level 4. Study rooms are reserved online and released after fifteen minutes if no one shows.
Help all in one building
Subject librarians, Writing Center consultants, the Math Teaching & Learning Center, tutoring and technology staff all work in Halvorsen, which is why student support is described as being “in the library.” The university archives, including the 1893 charter, are on Level 4 by appointment.
In and around Porter Falls
The campus is compact — 86 acres, 14 buildings — laid out along the old Millrace between downtown Porter Falls and the river. The Porter Loop shuttle circles it every twelve minutes during class hours, and the lighted Riverfront Trail connects the academic core to North Campus in about a ten-minute walk.
The practical details
Named for: The Halvorsen family; archives hold the founding charter. Floors: Collaborative on 1, quiet on 3, silent study on 4. After hours: Card-access study zone open past staffed hours. These specifics can shift from term to term, so confirm anything time-sensitive — a deadline, an appointment, an eligibility rule — before you count on it.
If you have a question
This is handled by Facilities & Campus Planning (Millwright Hall, Room 40). Call (715) 555-0245 or email facilities@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or use MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If another office turns out to own the question, they will pass it along rather than send you back to the beginning.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.