Celebrating three digital decades
From digital pioneer to campus partner, the Thomas Mahaffey, Jr. Business Library celebrates 30 years of excellence
Published: November 4, 2025 / Author: Becky Malewitz
Steve Hayes, faculty emeritus and former Entrepreneurial Spirit Endowed Business Librarian, instructs a class in 2012.
This year marks the Mahaffey Business Library’s 30th anniversary. It has been and continues to be home to discipline-specific library faculty and staff who offer a wide range of support for classroom instruction, individual research and collaborative study. It provides access to 128 databases, facilitating nearly 300 instruction sessions and research consultations annually. In the three decades since the Business Library opened its doors, it has maintained a commitment to service excellence and meeting the teaching and research needs of Notre Dame’s faculty, students and visiting researchers.
“In the early days, there was quite a bit of curiosity,” Pete Pietraszewski, current Entrepreneurial Spirit Endowed Business Librarian and head of branch libraries, said. “Departments such as finance and accountancy had already been working with databases on the mainframe and later on CD-ROM, but many people would stop in and ask, ‘Hey, what’s this place all about?’”
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