About the Library

The St Mark's College Library is located on the top floor of the Archibald Grenfell Price Dining Hall. It is a secure, air-conditioned environment which is open 24 hours per day and is accessible only with a currently valid security card.

It is available for use by students as well as staff and interested other people who have a relationship with the College. Researchers from outside College may also use it with the permission of the Librarian or the Master of the College.

The automated catalogue may also be accessed by students from their rooms via the College Intranet.

Apart from the student-use computers which are available in the College's dedicated Computer Room there are also five student-use computers in the library.

Wireless Internet is available.

The library contains over 22,000 volumes consisting of more than 18,000 books and 4,000 individual periodical issues as well as some CDs.

The main collection consists of non-fiction, including selected periodical titles, covering all fields of knowledge, as well as recreational fiction. There is also a sizeable Reference Collection, Reserve Collection containing in-demand titles, Rare Book Collection, and St Mark's Collection of books relating to the College and its history. Our main collection is improved regularly with new purchases to ensure that our students are given valuable academic support.

A full skeleton, a half-skeleton with internal organs, a brain, and a skull are available for use as study aids by health sciences students.

Each semester the library staff produce a newsletter that helps students, alumni and friends of the College to keep in touch with what is happening in the library.

St Mark's College considers its library to be one of its most outstanding assets and makes every effort to maintain its relevance to students through continuous assessment and encouragement of student opinion.