| Helen Temple Cooke Library |
The Helen Temple Cooke Library is a complete information resource center designed to serve the students, faculty and staff of Dana Hall School. Its primary goals are to support the diverse academic curriculum, to meet a wide range of student interests and abilities by providing multiple resources for learning, to develop the skills and self-confidence of students so they can operate effectively in any library, to provide a comfortable and caring atmosphere for individual and group study, and to foster a lifelong appreciation of reading, viewing, and listening as sources of pleasure and personal growth.
There are 18 desktop computers (both Macs and PCs) and 19 laptops available for library use. Wired and wireless connections to the campus network throughout the library enable laptop users to access all library applications. The current library facility opened in September 1998 and is a welcoming space that seats 130 users at tables, carrels, and armchairs. There also are a variety of smaller spaces within the library that are available for student use: four group study rooms, a seminar room, and a media production room. Library orientation tours are offered to all new and returning students in the fall through English classes, and numerous courses visit the library for specific subject seminars throughout the year. In addition, librarians teach the information literacy component of the 9th grade skills course. The librarians also are eager to teach all users how to operate audiovisual technology and to educate them to be media literate. Staff
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The library's resources include a collection of more than 32,000 items (books, audiobooks, DVDs and videotapes, and CDs), 175 print periodical subscriptions (including seven daily and two weekly newspapers), a pamphlet file, two digital pianos, two photocopiers, a media production facility, and the Dana Hall School Archives. The library catalog, a full array of databases and e-books, 20,000 full-text online periodicals, course pathfinders and additional information about the library can be accessed through the