The Hesburgh Library is a centerpiece of Notre Dame’s intellectual pursuits and an enduring symbol of the University’s commitment to academic excellence. Home to a broad range of services, resources, and spaces, and nearly 200 library faculty and staff, the Hesburgh Library continues to serve as the flagship building of the Hesburgh Libraries system.
The Architecture library comprises over 36,000 volumes and hundreds of periodicals on the built, planned, and grown environment. Collection strengths include classical and traditional architecture, American architecture, Italian architecture, Latin American architecture, New Urbanism, sustainable design and planning, historic preservation, and urban planning, as well as an extensive rare book collection. In addition to print collections, the Architecture Library builds and maintains several digital projects and collections, and is the repository for the archives of classical architect and theorist Léon Krier and the first New Urban community, Seaside.
The Thomas Mahaffey, Jr. Business Library is located on the Lower Level of the Mendoza College of Business at the base of the circular staircase. Card swipe access to the space is available to Mendoza students outside of operating hours. As a branch of the Hesburgh Libraries, we serve the business information needs of Mendoza as well as the wider University community.
Digital scholarship leverages state-of-the-art technologies to transform the ways in which teaching, research, and scholarship are performed. Digital scholarship is concerned with transformative uses of content that result in innovative research or new tools to engage with intellectual materials rather than with passive uses of electronic content, such as emailing or word processing.
On Hesburgh Library's 7th floor, the Medieval Institute Library includes resources for research on Ancient and Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Near East/Mediterranean.
Primarily serving the Dept. of Music and Sacred Music program, the collection contains books, periodicals/journals, scores, CDs, DVDs, and LPs of predominantly classical and liturgical genres, but also sources for the study of jazz, folk, and popular music.
Open to the public. Collections include rare books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, coins and currency, ephemera, and stamps.
On Hesburgh Library's 6th floor, the University Archives houses the official records of the University, the personal papers of Notre Dame faculty and alumni, and a broad manuscript collection documenting the history of American Catholicism.
The University of Notre Dame at Tantur fosters research and graduate education and maintains institutional relations with universities, educational foundations, and organizations in Israel and Palestine, as well as with Christian institutions throughout the region.
The Notre Dame Kylemore Library supports the academic and research needs of faculty, scholars, and students affiliated with NDK and Notre Dame programs, during their time in Ireland, supporting cultural exploration, as well as academic interests beyond the curriculum. Our collection features a wide range of texts on the topic of Irish studies; including Irish literature, history and social discourse.
The Hesburgh Libraries supports several services for the Notre Dame London program. Notre Dame London is active year-round with myriad intellectual and cultural activities, including graduate and undergraduate classes, faculty seminars, conferences, workshops, debates, book launches, and other events.
The Notre Dame Rome Library is located on the second floor of the Notre Dame Rome facility. The library is comprised of nearly 3,000 volumes searchable in the online catalog. The collection is continuously growing to meet the needs of new students and faculty studying abroad.