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About the Library
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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. The library’s resources include a collection of over 28,000 titles (books, books on tape, videotapes, CDs, DVDs, and CD-ROMs), direct access to more than 3000 periodicals (in print, on microfiche, and online), a pamphlet file, two digital pianos, two photocopiers (one black and white, one color), a media production facility, and the Dana Hall School Archives. The library’s automated system gives access to information through on-line databases, the Internet, and CD-ROM technology. The library’s memberships in CLASS (the Cooperative Library Association Shared System) and MMRLS (the Metrowest Massachusetts Regional Library System) provide additional access to the resources of several hundred libraries statewide. There are 18 computers (16 Macintoshes and 2 PCs) and 19 laptops available for library use; connections to the campus network throughout the library enable laptop users to access a wide variety of applications. The current library facility opened in September 1998 and is a welcoming space that seats 130 users at tables, carrels, and armchairs. There are also a variety of smaller spaces within the library that are available for student use: three 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. The librarians are also eager to teach all users how to operate audiovisual technology and to educate them to be media-literate.
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Monday holidays follow a Sunday schedule and the Sunday preceding a Monday holiday follows a Saturday schedule. The library is closed during Thanksgiving, Winter and Spring breaks.
StaffThe best way to contact all library staff is by emailing library@danahall.org or calling x2185. Our phone number if calling from off-campus is 781-235-3010 x2185.
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