Libraries
York Library
The York Library supports the learning programs of Loreto College by effectively resourcing the curriculum. It achieves this by maintaining a balanced collection of learning resources and equipment that is organised, accessed and circulated through a whole-of-school management system.
The library offers a wide range of services to support teachers and students of Loreto College. The ability to retrieve, evaluate and use information effectively, empowers students for life long learning, and is described by the term ‘information literacy’.Students at Loreto are given the opportunity, through their studies, to become information literate across all forms of media, both conventional and those of the latest technology.
Resource based learning is the methodology used for teaching information skills in context with the students’ studies in each subject area. The focus is on developing units of work with subject teachers or with faculties to integrate the learning of content with the acquisition of sound skills.
Promotion of literature is also a priority, so that students will be encouraged to make satisfying choices both in their required reading, and for their own leisure and pleasure.
Mickelgate Library
The Mickelgate Library provides resources, services and learning programs catering primarily for students from Reception to year 7 and staff.The library assists in the promotion of information literacy by:
- providing learning contexts, processes and skills based on the information process (eg Resource-based learning)
- providing learning experiences that recognise individual learning needs and styles
- providing teachers with the support (ie resources and skills) they need to develop information-literate students
- providing services and technologies needed to gain maximum access to information
Students may access a variety of classic, contemporary and popular texts. They are encouraged to read, listen to, view, retell, discuss, compare, illustrate and dramatise literature, media and everyday texts so that they will
- recognise their own literary preferences
- independently select their own reading material
- critically view and evaluate the texts they have chosen
Library resources include:
- Fiction
- Non Fiction
- Reference
- Big Books
- Journals/magazines
- ICTs
- Audio-visual equipment
- Picture kits
- Maps/wallcharts
- Teacher resources
The aim of the Micklegate Library is to provide students with a welcoming environment and comfortable and rewarding learning experiences that will contribute to their understanding of, and respect for, the role of libraries in their lifelong learning and reading.
