The Holy Family Library

The Holy Family Library supports the mission of Bishop T.K. Gorman Regional Catholic School in the ongoing formation of the Christian person by providing access to a collection of wide-ranging, balanced, current, and validated resources - both print and non-print - to facilitate and encourage growth in faith and reason. The Holy Family Library also aims to empower all students to be effective, faithful, and critical users of information resources, and to advocate enjoyment and understanding of literature.

Goals of the Library

The Holy Family Library strives to provide a well organized and efficiently managed resource center which contains a broad range of easily accessible informational resources that will meet the diversified needs and interests of individuals in their academic pursuits as well as personal enrichment. Our goals are specified as follows:

• To implement, enrich, and support the instructional program of the school.
• To build a collection that supports the Catholic school curriculum, is balanced with representation of various points of view on different subjects.
• To select reading materials that are rich in literary merits, that will excite students to discover the joy and beauty of the literary world, that will inspire readers to seek truth and wisdom, and that will encourage moral and ethical rectitude.
• To sponsor well planned programs that will promote reading as a means of life long learning and personal fulfillment.

Philosophy on Intellectual Freedom

The Holy Family Library believes "the freedom to read is essential to our democracy" (The Freedom to Read Statement, ALA), and "libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues" (Library Bill of Rights, ALA). With that in mind, opinions expressed in some library resources are not necessarily endorsed by the Tyler Catholic School System, the school or the library, though a major effort in acquisition of library resources is to provide students with a rich diversity of human experiences that helps lead them to a faithful life. While it is the goal of the library personnel to place principle above personal opinion and reason above prejudice in selection of materials of the highest quality, the school recognizes that the final decision as to what materials an individual student will be exposed to rests with that student's parents or guardians. The wishes of one child's parents or guardians to restrict his/her reading or viewing of a particular item, however, will not infringe on other parents' right to permit their child to read or view the same material.

Circulation

Web based Online Catalog at http://g3online.com/tkgormanhs/

Loan periods:

• 3 weeks for all books, print and audio, CDs, renewable
• 2 weeks for E-Readers
  

• 2-day check out for magazines and videos
• Overnight check out for reference materials

Overdue Fines:

• 10 cents per school day on regular items
• 25 cents per school day on videos and overnight items
• Additional fines will be added after 3 notices, parents/ guardians will be notified then.