Library Departments

Services Areas || Branch Libraries & Information Centers

ACCESS SERVICE DEPARTMENT
provides information and access to materials in an efficient and friendly manner.

ACQUISITIONS DEPARTMENT (first floor -- past the elevators)
acquires, processes and pays for the materials regardless of format, necessary to suppport the teaching and research mission of the University in an efficient and cost effective manner.

ARTS, ARCHITECTURE & MEDIA DEPARTMENT
supports the visual and performing arts, including Architecture; Art, Art History, and Design; Film, Television, and Theatre; and Music. Media materials are collected in all disciplines.

AUDIO-VIDEO (room 203)
provides an extensive collection of over 12,200 audio and video recordings for class assignments and leisure listening or viewing. The audio collection includes both music and the spoken word while the video collection contains documentaries and classic English and foreign language films.

CATALOGING DEPARTMENT (SE quadrant, first floor -- past the elevators)
supports the teaching and research mission of the University by providing descriptive and subject access to the University Libraries' collections through records in the ND Catalog.

CIRCULATION (first floor)
is responsible for charging out and processing the return of library materials and for obtaining items which are missing from the shelf. It is located near the turnstiles in the first floor lobby.

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT (room 208)
in conjunction with the faculties develops library collections for research and teaching. The Department maintains contact with the various academic departments through its subject librarians and liaisons, and welcomes recommendations for new acquisitions from the University community.

COMMERCIAL BINDERY PREPARATION UNIT (CBPU) (room 219)
located on the second floor of the Hesburgh Library and is one of six units of the Preservation Department. It is responsible for preparing, shipping, and receiving Hesburgh Library volumes to be sent to the off campus commercial binder and for coordinating and monitoring commercial binding activities for all other branch libraries along with preparation of commercial mass deacidification shipments.

COPY MACHINES
Coin-operated machines are located on the first floor in the Current Periodicals Center, Reserve Book Room and in the Reference area, on the second floor in the lobby at the top of the main stairs and in the Tower on the 5th, 7th and 13th floors.

CURRENT PERIODICALS CENTER (room 111)
houses approximately 3200 titles of current journals and newspapers. Back runs are located in the tower of Hesburgh or in microform in Microtexts (Lower Level). Current issues of journals do not circulate.

DESKTOP COMPUTING & NETWORK SERVICES (11th floor)
as part of the Information Systems & Access Division of the University of Notre Dame Libraries it is here to help University of Notre Dame Library faculty and staff members with any computer-related questions or problems they have.

DIGITAL ACCESS & INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
part of the Information Systems & Access Division of the University of Notre Dame Libraries. Its mission is to enhance the usability of digital library services and collections by exploring, creating, maintaining, and improving frameworks for the University of Notre Dame community.

DOCUMENT DELIVERY (room 208)
provides next day delivery of books and photocopies of articles from the University Libraries of Notre Dame collections for Arts and Letters faculty. Branch Library and Information Center Document Deliver Service provides next day delivery of books and photocopies from the University Libraries of Notre Dame collections for Notre Dame faculty, post-doctoral students, and administrative or office staff.

DOCUMENT ACCESS & DATABASE MANAGEMENT
This department is comprised of two units: Government Document Technical Services (Gov Docs) and Catalog and Database Maintenance (CADM). Our mission is to insure online access to and integrity of bibliographic and holdings data of the collections in all formats.

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES AND SERIALS ACCESS
is responsible for creation and maintenance of ILS and Gateway records for serials in all formats, insuring effective bibliographic organization and technical access.

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS CENTER (lower level)
has over 800,000 United States government documents received since January 1, 1968. It contains a broad range of materials covering anything from lawn care to poetry to history and is particularly rich in the areas of public affairs, energy, environmental sciences, statistics and technical information. These materials are arranged according to the Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) classification system. Assistance in finding U.N. or European Union (E.U.) documents or earlier U.S. materials is also available.

INFORMATION, RESEARCH & INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES (IRIS, first floor)
offers assistance in all facets of library use: suggesting sources for information on various subjects; supplying specific factual information; assisting in the use of reference tools and in the use of the online catalog and other electronic resources. The Reference Collection includes over 40,000 books and indexes and numerous electronic resources that have been selected to support the Libraries' reference service. These materials include bibliographies, biographical sources, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, almanacs and yearbooks as well as general and specific periodical indexes and abstracts.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN (room 117)
is responsible for securing from other libraries books and journal articles not owned by the University Libraries. Allow a minimum of two weeks for delivery. The service is free.

LIBRARY ADVANCEMENT OFFICE
Advancing through the generosity and support of our friends.

LIBRARY INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES (room 222B)
provides a complete range of instructional services from orientation tours, to topical workshops, to graduate research courses. Please feel free to make use of this service when planning a course or making a research assignment. The Library Instructional Services Coordinator may be reached at 631-3172.

LIBRARY SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT (room 213)
to engage in the timely and thorough support and enhancement of the current integrated library system, and to provide storage, access, maintenance and security for data created through this system.

LOWER LEVEL SERVICES (Lower Level)
has the Microforms (microfilm, microfiche, and microcards) which accommodates a broad variety of materials available in microform and the equipment and indexes that facilitate their use. Photocopying to paper is possible. The collection of over 1 million items includes journals, newspapers, books, manuscripts, annual reports of corporations and extensive research collections.

MEDIEVAL INSTITUTE LIBRARY (seventh floor)
houses a special collection of resources concerning medieval intellectual history and university life and features the renowned Ambrosiana Microfilm Collection.

PRESERVATION DEPARTMENT (Hesburgh Library and Reyniers Building)
committed to preserving important research collections to ensure their continued availability to both current and future generations of researchers.

REFERENCE (see Information, Research & Instructional Services (IRIS))

RESERVE BOOK ROOM (first floor)
works in cooperation with the teaching faculty to make required reading materials for class assignments easily accessible to students. Faculty members may place on reserve personal or library copies of books, articles, etc. The department adheres to copyright laws for articles and excerpts from books and will contact copyright owners and pay permission costs that are considered reasonable.

Resource Delivery Department
consists of Interlibrary Loan (see above) and Document Delivery (also see above)

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (room 102)
at the west end of the concourse, houses rare books and other distinctive collections such as the Zahm Collection on Dante, the Shaw Collection on Chesterton and the Catholic Americana Collection. It also houses manuscripts, coins and cultural artifacts.

SPORTS RESEARCH (room 102)
located in Special Collections at the west end of the concourse, contains the Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Sports Research Collection. Notre Dame sports materials are housed in the University Archives (sixth floor).

STACKS MANAGEMENT
is responsible for reshelving material after it has been returned, shifting books and journals within the stacks, shelf reading and maintaining (books and the equipment used to house them, shelves, etc.)

Date Last Modified: March 20, 2007

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