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It has an automated circulation and cataloging system, desktop and laptop hubs, as well as Ereaders available for student use. The library is a research center, a study and recreational reading area, and a center for classroom instruction. All Academy students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and immediate family members of students may check out books and materials.

Computer Resources
The library is home to nineteen laptops, five desktops, two stand-alone library catalog computers, ten iPads, six Nooks, forty color Nooks, a SMART Board, color scanner, copier, and projection system.

Online Resources
We are very excited about our growing collection of Ebooks that are available to all members of our community. We have a wide variety of both fiction and non-fiction titles. Through our online catalog, students can search for books, access online databases and academic websites.
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Online Databases
The Stanley Library subscribes to a vast array of online databases including Grolier Online, EBSCOHost, Discovery Education Streaming and TED. Visit ROAR! for a complete listing of links to the databases and the usernames and passwords required for off-campus access.

Collections
The Stanley Library is home to a number of important collections:

• The Janet Comtois Stirn Memorial Collection, named in honor of Janet Comtois Stirn, Academy parent, grandparent, trustee, and dear friend. The Stirn collection was dedicated in May 2004 and contains Mrs. Stirn's favorite books, family photographs, memorabilia, and books purchased by the Stirn Memorial Fund, established by the Stirn family in 2003. This year, funds from the Stirn Collection will also be used to bring a series of authors to the library.
• The Winter Library Collection, established by William Winter, a famous critic and patron of the arts (for whom the Academy’s annual scholarship program is named), in honor of his son Arthur, an Academy student who had died while he was enrolled at the school. Through Mr. Winter's influence, the collection of the library, which was modeled after Sir Walter Scott’s, included autographed portraits of Dickens, Gladstone, and Disraeli. Its shelves held first editions of Twain, Dickens, Johnson, Byron, Andrew Carnegie, and Bram Stoker, as well as other rare books and prints. The library was heralded as the best secondary school classical library in the nation.
  

Required Classes
Pre-K through Grade 6: Students attend Library classes where they familiarize themselves with the library and its informational resources, learn about and practice research skills through class projects, engage in story time, browse magazines, check out books, discuss literature, and develop a life-long love for learning and reading.
Grades 7-8: Students take a Library class 2 times per cycle inorder to further develop their research and information literacy skills. 

Parent and Student Reading Groups
The Stanley Library invites all students and their parents for a series of book discussions. These special gatherings are intended for parents and their children to come together and talk about an assigned book.