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Library
“A room without a book is like a body without a soul.”
Villa Maria has a state-of-the-art library for reading and for doing research. It has seated places to accommodate 84 students and 10 study carrels. Two rooms are available for team work.
A professional librarian and a library technician are available at all times to welcome students, to provide information and to guide them in their research projects.
A special initiation class is given to the Secondary 1 students.
The Villa Maria library is a meeting-place for class sessions with authors, literary activities and literary thematic displays.
Hours: Monday to Friday - 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Electronic Resources
- 4 networked IBM-compatible computers available for book research
- 4 computers for library management
- 10 networked computers for student use
- 2 electronic indexes for newspapers
- Various electronic databases
Printed Resources
- Over 21,000 books in English, French and Spanish
- 55 magazine subscriptions
- Over 300 subjects in vertical files
- Subscriptions to The Gazette and La Presse
- Reference collections
- Periodical indexes
- More than 200 bibliographies catalogued by theme for both fiction and non-fiction research
- A vast collection of young-adult books