Welcome to the Conaton Library Media Center in the Student Life Center at Cathedral High School

The library is open Monday through Thursday 7:30am to 7:00pm and Friday 7:30am to 6:00pm

Library Quick News

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2013 BATTLE OF THE BOOKS TEAM who participated at Ben Davis High School on Thursday, April 11 against 4 other area high schools:

Back row: Samara Shackelton, Warren Inskeep, Maureen Kesterson-Yates, Maren Doll

Front row: Chris Fitzgerald, John Kansky

TRY THIS NEW SEARCH ENGINE: STUDENT APPROPRIATE AND FULL OF GREAT SITES:

Teachers: check out this Video Guide for great ideas on using videos in classroom. Good stuff!

Check out the Books & Bagels page for updated Spring Break Book '13!!! (here's a hint: it's One for the Money by Janet Evanovich)

Our casual book club, the Page Brigade, meets Fridays after school in the library work room.

Please check out our GO (Grolier Online) database on the research page. We'd love to hear what you think.

Forming Independent Learners

Your friendly library staff:


*Mrs. Glenn*	*Mrs. Herron*

Mission Statement

The mission of the Cathedral High School Library is to encourage and support students and staff in their quests for knowledge and good books, to provide access to resources to meet their needs, and to help develop the information literacy skills necessary for lifelong reading and independent learning.

Click here for a brief tutorial on using our library catalog and databases.

Click here for a website evaluation tutorial.

The Library collection consists of:

Over 11,000 print books, 1,400 video titles, and access to over 2,000,000 items through our IMCPL catalog (click to access)
Dowloadable ebooks & audiobooks for iPad or other reading device
40 Periodicals
4 Daily Newspapers
64 Exceptional Databases (click to access) Need your library card number? Call the librarian @ 968-7389
Free online Tutoring (click to access) from 2pm - 10pm
38 New iMacs currently running Windows and Mac

Digital Video and Still Cameras / editing software
Graphing Calculators

Putting it all together? Link to ALA's best educational websites for ideas on how to present your work in creative and interesting ways!

Cathedral High School has been a partner of the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library since 1995. Our library card is the public library card. The holdings of the Cathedral High School Media Center can be seen online at the IMCPL website.

A special feature of this partnership is students and staff may request material from throughout the IMCPL network. Material is then delivered to the Cathedral High School Media Center on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.