About the Library
Founded as an independent academic library in 1973, the Loyola Notre Dame Library (LNDL) is an innovative center of engaged learning and research that advances the academic and spiritual missions of Loyola University Maryland and Notre Dame of Maryland University.
Through the expertise of its staff and partnerships with faculty, staff, and students at Loyola and Notre Dame, LNDL provides so much more than the traditional image of books on shelves.
- Library spaces are used for studying but also for hosting meetings for everything from student sewing and knitting clubs to faculty and administrative department meetings.
- In addition to literacy instruction for traditional research skills, LNDL's expert librarians provide copyright literacy, data literacy, and AI literacy.
- Archives and Special Collections provides primary source literacy through hands on learning with special collections ranging from the St. John’s Bible to theatre Playbills. The archival collections of Loyola and Notre Dame support historical research of the universities including the President’s Task Force Examining Loyola’s Connections to Slavery.
- Makerspace technology allows both classes and individuals to get creative. It’s even been used to support accessibility by laser cutting a 3D map for a student in a history course. Makerspace trainings and classes provide students with the skills and tools they need to create, prototype, and iterate.
- Vast local collections of electronic and print resources are augmented by access to over 11 million items available from the 16 other libraries in the University System of Maryland & Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) consortium and the Eastern Academic Scholars Trust (EAST), a print archives that guarantees access to 11 million volumes through Interlibrary Loan.
LNDL works to ensure that there is a place for everyone and all feel welcome at the Library.
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Explore our timeline celebrating more than fifty years of the Loyola Notre Dame Library!