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Loyola is a private university founded in 1870, and is one of the nation's largest Jesuit, Catholic Universities. Loyola is a not-for-profit institution consisting of eleven schools and colleges with four locations in Chicagoland and a campus in Rome, Italy providing educational services to approximately 16,000 students, primarily in undergraduate degree programs as well as graduate and professional degree programs. The University enjoys robust enrollments, an outstanding reputation for the quality of its teaching, an increasing level of excellence in research, and successfully completed and surpassed a $500 million comprehensive campaign goal in 2011. Recognizing Loyola's excellence in education, U.S. News and World Report has consistently ranked Loyola among the "top national universities" in its annual publications.

Like the University itself, Loyola's libraries are in a growth mode with new facilities and initiatives, such as the eCommons, Loyola's institutional repository. With the opening of the $32 million Information Commons on Lakeshore Campus in 2008, Loyola has one of the finest and most advanced academic library facilities in the Chicago area and Midwest. In addition to the Information Commons, the University Libraries include Cudahy Library at the main campus in Rogers Park, the Lewis Library at the Water Tower Campus, an offsite storage facility, and a library at the John Felice Rome Center. The University Libraries have an annual materials budget exceeding $5 million. Collections include more than two million volumes, 430 databases, over 60,000 journals, and a variety of physical and streaming media resources. For more information, please visit http://libraries.luc.edu. The Libraries have an active Friends group and are a sponsor of frequent cultural programs for the Loyola community and its neighbors.