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Mon-Thurs: 7:45 am - Midnight
Fri: 7:45 am - 8:00 pm
Sat: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sun: 11:00 am - midnight

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Welcome to the Cushwa-Leighton Library

Welcome to the Cushwa-Leighton Library at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. Here, we hope you will find a friendly environment for learning and research and access to information to support your classes, research and general information needs. Come in, spend some time with us, whether in the physical building or virtually, through our web site. Let us help you with your information research needs.

- Janet S. Fore, Library Director

What's New at the Library?

New Issue of the Library Newsletter

February 3, 2012

Check out the Cushwa-Leighton Library's Winter Newsletter (pdf), with news and updates about our new library hours, books that are being turned into movies, and our newest librarian!

Gale Virtual Reference Library Trial

January 25, 2012

The library has started a trial subscription to a new collection of 130 electronic reference sources (subject encyclopedias, handbooks, source books...) called the Gale Virtual Reference Library. The trial runs until Feb. 23.

Title examples:

Encyclopedia of Adolescence, 3 vol., 2011

Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd ed, 15 vol., 2005

Encyclopedia of Research Design, 3 vol., 2010

Please let us know what you think of the format, accessibility, and content of this new resource by sending email to Suzanne Hinnefeld, shinnefe@saintmarys.edu!

Welcome back: New expanded Sunday hours!

January 16, 2012

Welcome back from the winter holidays! In response to student requests, the Cushwa-Leighton Library is pleased to announce that we will be opening two hours earlier on Sundays. Starting on Sunday, January 22, we will open the library at 11:00 a.m. rather than 1:00 p.m. Reference librarians will be available starting at 1:00 p.m.

To compensate for the additional Sunday hours, we will be closing two hours earlier on Fridays, at 8:00 p.m. instead of 10:00 p.m. (Image from Flickr user ehoyer, licensed via Creative Commons.)