Blackburn Library, located on the City Avenue campus, provides collaborative space and resources that allow Middle and Upper School students to learn, discover and create. Blackburn Library is open from 8am to 6pm, Monday through Friday, and provides flexible spaces for group and individual study, including a small group study room with whiteboard walls and a flat screen TV for group presentation. Blackburn librarians provide instruction on digital and information literacy skills and offer expert guidance to match each reader to their next favorite book.
Blackburn Library’s print collection includes 16,000 books, videos, DVDs, e-books, and periodicals for students pursuing research assignments or topics of personal interest. In addition, the Blackburn online library provides students with 24/7 access to databases and research tools including ProQuest, JSTOR, Questia, Noodletools and AccessPA Power Library. These resources are a gateway to thousands of full-text articles, e-books, maps, images, audio clips and videos. Historical periodicals and other primary sources are an area of special focus in Blackburn Library’s online collections. Students may also borrow materials from the Pennsylvania inter-library loan program that includes more than 2,600 school, public, academic and special libraries and millions of holdings. See the Blackburn Library website for more.