About Notre Dame
Resources
Hesburgh Libraries
The Theodore M. Hesburgh Library and the nine other libraries on campus contain a total of over 3.3 million volumes, more than 34,000 electronic titles, more than 3 million microform units and 28,850 audiovisual items. Managing the collection and services is a faculty of 55 and a staff of 130.
University Libraries of Notre Dame
Information Technologies
The Office of Information Technologies (OIT) supports six public-access computer labs throughout the campus to give students, faculty, and staff access to approximately 255 computers running Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX operating systems. Campus entities are linked to an optical-fiber network backbone that provides access to a plethora of information technology services. Wired Ethernet in-room connections allow students living in residence halls to connect their own computers to the network, which also interconnects with Internet2, a high-speed network that joins Notre Dame to approximately 200 leading research universities.
Secure wireless access in available across the Notre Dame campus, in most buildings, athletic facilites, social spaces and outdoors. The University provides cable television to residence hall rooms through an agreement with Comcast Cable. Students, staff, and faculty qualify to purchase computers and software for personal use at discount prices from Notre Dame's Computer Store. A Help Desk provides trained support technicians to guide users in diagnosing and solving computer problems. The University's Center for Research Computing provides an internationally highly ranked supercomputing environment for computationally intensive work and research. Notre Dame offers classroom systems in technology-enhanced classrooms that integrate a variety of audio-visual equipment, including projection systems, lectern computers and voice amplification to enhance the learning experience. The OIT also offers videoconferencing, video streaming services, and video and audio production and post-production services, including media duplication.
Office of Information Technologies
Notre Dame Press
The University of Notre Dame Press is the largest Catholic university press in the world with 1,000 books in print and 60 new titles annually. The Press publishes scholarship at the graduate level and above in several fields, such as theology, philosophy, medieval and early modern studies, religious history, Latin American studies; also short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.
University of Notre Dame Press
University Archives
Records center for the University and manuscript repository for research collections documenting American Catholicism, the Archives are housed in the Hesburgh Library and contain more than 32,000 linear feet of materials, including administrative records of the University, manuscript collections, audiovisual and graphics materials, digital files, microfilm, books and other printed matter, ephemera, and artifacts.
Fine and Performing Arts
Snite Museum of Art: Located across the street from Notre Dame Stadium, the Snite Museum of Art contains more than 24,000 works of art. Exceptional holdings include the Jack and Alfrieda Feddersen Collection of Rembrandt etchings, the Noah L. and Muriel Butkin Collection of 19th-century French art, the John D. Reilly Collection of Old Master and 19th-century drawings, the Janos Scholz Collection of 19th-century European photographs, and the Mr. and Mrs. Russell G. Ashbaugh Jr. Collection of Mestrovic sculpture and drawings. Other collection strengths include Olmec and Preclassic Mesoamerican art, 20th-century art, Northern Native American art, Old Master paintings, and decorative and design arts. The museum also presents 10 to 12 special exhibitions each year.
Music: The Department of Music features an annual series of musical performances by guest artists, faculty members, music students, and student groups, including the Glee Club, Chorale, Symphony Orchestra, Brass Ensemble, Jazz Band, and Concert Band. Other groups on campus include the Folk Choir, Coro Primavera de Nuestra Senora, Handbell Choir, Celebration Choir, and the Voices of Faith.
Theater and film: The Department of Film, Television and Theatre offers numerous events, among them a series of plays each academic year that are performed at the University's Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts. Other events include the NDCinema film series, the annual Student Film Festival, and Shakespeare at Notre Dame, which includes the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, guest lectures by leading Shakespearean actors, and performances performances by the Notre Dame-based Actors From The London Stage.
Department of Film, Television and Theatre
Recent speakers on campus
Dozens of prominent national and international figures in the worlds of politics, business, the Church, entertainment, the arts, and the news media annually deliver lectures on campus. Among the recent speakers: President Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush, President of Ireland Mary McAleese, jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, U.S. Senators John McCain and Evan Bayh, former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Cardinals Roger Mahony, Theodore McCarrick and Francis George, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, authors Frank McCourt and Nicholas Sparks, investor Warren Buffett, the late director Sydney Pollack, actor Martin Sheen, former Attorney General Janet Reno, death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean, and journalists Jim Lehrer, Ted Koppel, and the late Tim Russert.
Campus and Physical Facilities
The campus consists of 138 buildings on 1,250 acres with a total replacement of property value of $2.8 billion.
