High School Library

Our High School library provides a dynamic learning environment to support and enrich the curriculum and engage students in a lifelong passion for learning.

The library’s resources, programs, and services include:

A collection of more than 4,000 books, 24 magazines, journals, and newspapers, and an extensive digital collection of audiobooks, e-Books, academic publications, and primary sources.
An online catalog, self-checkout circulation system, multiple desktop computers for library research, printers, scanners, and photocopiers.
A centrally located space for the school community to comfortably gather for reading, studying, tutoring, and classes, as well as for group and individual projects.

"If you have a library and a garden, you have everything you need."
Cicero

Throughout the school year, the librarian presents a Speaker Series.

Speakers have included:

The Honorable Ron Goode, Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe
Sir Jony Ives, Chief Design Officer at Apple
Civil rights activist and Congressman John Lewis
Melba Pattillo Beals, member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who were the first to racially integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
Kate Schatz, author, and Miriam Klein Stahl, illustrator, Rad American Women A-Z
Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan women's rights activist and nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize
Marc Sondheimer, Academy Award-winning producer at Pixar, best known for his work on the animated short-film Piper
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History

The High School librarian:

offers in-class instruction and individual research consultations to ensure students feel comfortable and confident throughout the research process
provides research guides for classes and tips for students to jumpstart their projects and cite sources in MLA, APA, and CMS styles
supports students in their quest for knowledge and understanding by guiding their searches, asking them to consider who is publishing information, and teaching them to evaluate the authority of sources