The aim of the library is to promote reading for pleasure and to support the curriculum. Information Skills classes are available for all subjects and run throughout the year. They cover :
* How to use the catalogue and make the most of the library collection * How to evaluate resources including the World Wide Web * How to do a project
To promote reading for pleasure the library organises various activities :
* Bookclub * Competitions * Author visits
Other facilities include : printer, photocopier
Form 4 in the National Library on their recent visit
The Harden Library is named after a former Headmaster Chaplain in the 1920s
The Harden Library has a sophisticated Internet-based software system, which allows access to an up-to-date database for cataloging purposes
Roisin Ingle read from her books 'Pieces of me', to the 4th Form students on Friday 21st November 2008
'Relax & Read '
Bookclubs are organised through the library in The King's Hopsital
“Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill ag léamh a filíochta i leabharlann na scoile i rith Seachtain na Gaeilge.”
“Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill reading her poetry in the school library during Seachtain na Gaeilge.
4th Year visit - first to TCD Library where pupils viewed Palmerstown area maps down through the centuries, and then to the National Library of Ireland to see the Reading Room, and W.B. Yeats exhibition.
The King's Hospital, Palmerstown, Dublin 20, Ireland
