Our Instructional Media Center
-Mission -
The Holy Family Academy High School Library supports the curriculum of the HFA High School as a part of that mission that provides access to current, adequate and appropriate information resources, to ensure that all students, teachers, and staff are effective users of ideas and information.
-Objective -
- To provide a broad range of media formats to meet the requirements of all curriculum areas, accommodating diverse learning skills and styles of users with varying maturity and ability levels;
- To participate effectively in the school program as it strives to meet the needs of the students, teachers and other members of the community.
- To collaborate with teachers and administrators in the selection, acquisition and use of all types of resources that will support and reinforce the curriculum;
- To motivate and encourage reading habits of students, to meet the research needs and to train the students in the use and care of valuable library resources.
- To organize the collection for easy access and dissemination.
- To inform the faculty of development in educational resources and technology and keep them abreast with the best ideas and practices in education ; and
- To preserve, secure and sustain relevant resources for the present and future use of the members of the HS community.
- Services -
- Instructional Services such as reader’s guidance, user orientation program, hands-on demonstration.
- Technical Services including selection, and ordering of materials, cataloging, binding, processing, etc.
- Loan of library materials
- Circulation-Reserve collection
- Filipiniana collection
- Special collection
- Instructional Media collection
- General Reference collection
- Research Service
- Reference service – this is providing answers to inquiries regarding bibliographical research and other research problems.
- Reader’s service – this are the advice or assistance given to a reader in location a book.
- Recreational service – newspaper/periodicals are provided for recreational reading.
- Outreach Service – accessibility of the library for outsiders particularly the alumni as part of its community services.
- Information and referrals
- Internet Services – the provision of the internet section helps the students in their research and abreasting themselves in the use of the World Wide Web.