LIBRARY

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