Exhibits: Hesburgh Libraries and Online
The Hesburgh Libraries offer a number of exhibits that are open to the public as well as to campus students, faculty and staff. Current displays:
In addition, various departments within the Libraries are creating Web-based exhibits and collections of digital texts and images. For a listing, see:
Hesburgh Library Concourse
2009 Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival
World-Class Theatre. Join the fun during the 10th anniversary season
From the international artistry of Michael York and Claire Bloom to the young, homegrown stars of tomorrow, from the witty repartee of Beatrice and Benedick to the timeless tragedy of Macbeth, from breathtaking swordplay to midsummer hilarity, the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival continues to be your home for world-class entertainment, right next door.
Second Floor Display Case
Rare Books and Special Collections
102 Hesburgh Library, Open to the public
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OnLine Exhibits and Digital Collections
Rare Books and Special Collections
The Rare Books and Manuscripts Unit of the Department of Special Collections has produced a number of exhibits featuring selections from major collections as well as several digital collections which aim to provide a comprehensive online catalog for specific holdings:
Online exhibits:- Power and Politics in the 19th-Century River Plate – books and manuscripts from the O'Grady Collection at the University of Notre Dame
- Familia Praedicatoria - in the University of Notre Dame Library - medieval manuscripts, incunables, and sixteenth-century books containing texts and images of the Order of Preachers
- Inter Folia Fructus - a survey of significant acquisitions related to Medieval British Studies
- Nos Los Inquisidores – selections from the Harley L. McDevitt Collection on the Spanish Inquisition
- "Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)"
- Selections from the Library of José Durand
- Colonial Currency
- Coins of Colonial and Early America
- Manuscripts of the American Civil War
- Washington Tokens
- Wolf Collection of Irish Postage Stamps
Edmund P. Joyce Sports Research Collection
The Edmund P. Joyce Sports Research Collection in the Department of Special Collections offers the following online exhibits:
- Autographed Baseballs in the Joyce Sports Research Collection
- Selections from the Harry E. Winkler Collection of Boxing Photographs
Medieval Institute Library
The Medieval Institute Library has produced the following exhibits and digital collections of its holdings:
Online exhibits:
Digital Collections:
- Medieval Seals: A Collection of Facsimiles at the Medieval Institute
- Inventory-Catalogue of the Drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Anastos Byzantine Library
A new Byzantine Studies Library is being built around the recently-acquired collection of the late Milton V. Anastos. While the collection is being cataloged and housed, you are invited to take a brief "walking tour" through the history and culture of Byzantium.
Devers Program in Dante Studies and the ItalNet Consortium
Established in 1995 to support rare book acquisitions in the John A. Zahm Dante collection and to fund an annual lecture series and visiting professorship in Dante studies, the Devers Program is also a founding member of the international ItalNet Consortium, whose mission is to make available scholarly Internet resources of literary and historical materials relating to Italian studies. Selected digital projects produced by ItalNet include:
