OPENING HOURS
- 8.15am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday in term time
- 10.00am to 2.00pm during School holidays (please telephone first to confirm)
The Mason Library is a spacious, light and user-friendly area which was opened in October 2006 by the author N.M. Browne. It comprises of a quiet reading room with bean bags and comfortable seating, an IT area with specially-designed workstations for laptops, printing facilities, and a quiet study area.
The Library resources include a collection of over 27,000 resources, including fiction, non-fiction and reference books, a wide range of journals and periodicals, and a selection of daily newspapers.
The Library also subscribes to a range of digital information resources which are used across all subjects, including ClickView and PressReader, which provide online access to hundreds of films, documentaries, newspapers and magazines. All of our online resources can be accessed from the Library site on the School’s Intranet (SharePoint).
Pupils may borrow up to four items from the Library at one time, with extra loans for the Sixth Form at the Librarian’s discretion. Hamptonians are welcome to suggest books which they would like the Library to acquire or which they feel others would enjoy.
New pupils joining the School in the First and Third Years are introduced to the Library at the earliest opportunity. A Library induction session is also held at the start of the Lower Sixth, when the pupils are introduced to a wider range of information sources. Also in the Lower Sixth, Library staff provide instruction on avoiding plagiarism, referencing, and constructing a bibliography, skills which are required by the Hampton Extended Learning Project (HELP), and which will be essential when Hamptonians leave School for university.
The service and enquiry desk is manned throughout the day by two experienced Library staff. The library catalogue (OPAC) can be searched from devices within School, or from home.
