Each year, during fall and spring break, graduate students from across the University of Notre Dame join the annual Hesburgh Libraries Dissertation and Thesis camp. A joint effort by the Hesburgh Libraries and the Writing Center, Dissertation and Thesis Camp started in 2010. Taking advantage of empty library space due to students leaving campus for fall break, the camp gives students time, space, motivation and community to help facilitate the research and writing process.
Monica Moore, graduate outreach and research services librarian and head of research services at the Hesburgh Libraries, began organizing and running the camp in 2022.
“If I think about my predecessor, Mandy Havert, she was the person who took this camp to where it is now, I’m reminded of something that she would always say, which was, give them the kind of experience where they don’t have to worry about anything outside of their work,” said Moore.
Dissertation and Thesis camp is a team effort at the Hesburgh Libraries. In addition to Moore, several individuals from the Hesburgh Libraries and the University Writing Center work together to make Dissertation and Thesis camp a success each Fall and Spring. Many thanks to Trish Johnson and Noemi Fernandez Labarga from the Writing Center as well as Lisa Baer, Cathy Markley, Chris Bailey, Rob Kolic, Reggie Burton and Don Mester from the Hesburgh Libraries.