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Staff

The Library is a busy, popular area with an extensive, regularly updated, lending stock which reflects the students' preferences for reading for pleasure as well as their curriculum needs.

The Library catalogue is available on every computer on the College network enabling students to search for relevant titles or websites, check the availability of resources and reserve those on loan.

A large computer suite is available in a room adjoining the library giving students a further facility to extend their research.

Both the library and computer suite are open to students throughout the day and normally remain open after lessons until 4pm

There is also a wide range of audio visual equipment, available from the centre for both staff and students to use during the College day including digital cameras, CD players and DVD players.

Students are encouraged to take part in regular book based competitions and quizzes organised by the Librarian who also annually guides a team of Year 8 readers in their selection of the winner of the prestigious Hampshire Book Award.

The Centre works closely with Teaching staff to ensure that students have adequate and appropriate resources for accessing the curriculum.

Two of our regular readers!

HTC Learning Resource Centre uses biometric fingerprint recognition, instead of reader cards, for ease of borrower recognition and as a means of encouraging boys’ reading by the use of extra technology in a book-based environment.

The device converts the fingerprint into a long number sequence from which it is impossible to create an image of the original print and saves it solely in the library database. When students leave HTC the biometric data is permanently deleted from the library database.