Welcome to The Lord
Holme Library
In accordance with the
School Library Association’s ‘purpose of a school library’, The Lord Holme Library strives ‘to provide a
wide range of multimedia resources to support teaching and learning throughout
the key stages, and foster a reading and information culture that promotes
independent motivated readers and learners for life.’
The Lord
Holme Library is located in the north side of the ground floor of the College. The
Library is composed of the Library’s Main Room, the Computer Study Room, the
Library Office, the Manga/Anime Corner, and a Textbook Store Room.
The Lord
Holme Library offers:
- Over 10,000 books
- Almost 2,000 educational and recreational
films on DVD and BD (Blu-ray disc)
- Approximately 150 audiocassettes and
CD-ROMs
- Over a dozen magazines and newspapers
- Books, magazines and films in English,
Czech, German, French, Spanish and Russian
- An Internet-accessible library automation
database
- Ten student-use computers plus WiFi
connection
- Two portable DVD players, a portable BD
player and an in-house notebook computer and Kindle e-book reader
- A copy machine accessible with a magnetic
charge card
- Paid subscriptions to two Internet periodical databases with access
to thousands of magazines and newspapers from around the world
Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday: 7:30 to 16:15
Librarian: Michael Hubbell, M.L.S.
Assistant Librarian: PhDr. Milena Brůhová