St. Catherine of Alexandria Library

 St. Catherine of Alexandria Library, located in the St. Raphael Room,  strives to provide both religious information and inspiration to our faith community. We have about 3500 books, primarily adult, and are adding a children’s section, as well as DVDs and CDs.  Large print books have been requested by our patrons and we will be striving to acquire them. 

The library is open any time the church is open, with the exception of each Friday at 6 PM.  It will close at that time for praying the Spanish rosary. We use a self-checkout, honor system and instructions are posted. Please put your phone number on the checkout slip.  Books and CDs are checked out for 3 weeks.  Return books to the basket at the library desk.

The library is also a conference room. If it is in use, there will be a closed sign on the door.  This will be infrequent.

Our volunteer librarians meet every Tuesday morning.  If you want help and no one is available, leave the librarians a note in a checkout card box and someone will contact you. Volunteers to help with shelving and cataloging are welcome.  We also could use help with graphics and signs; planning for activities such as children’s story hours and book clubs and Bible study.
 

Donations

We gladly accept donations of religious books, DVDs, or CDs that are in good condition. We will review the donations to decide which materials we can use in our collection. Any donated items that we cannot use will either be donated to another source or sold to purchase other library materials.  Children's books and large print books have been requested.

 

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Free Online Catholic Book Resource

 

Thanks to technology, and perhaps due to Christianity’s low status in our modern liberal age, there is a fantastic treasure trove of good, traditional Catholic books available for free or near-free. Below are links to valuable and timeless Catholic texts (including those written by great saints and Fathers and Doctors of the Church) that you can read and download for free. Take advantage of this.


http://www.traditionalcatholic.co/free-catholicbooks/



http://www.traditionalcatholic.co/free-catholic-books-ii/



 

Library Committee Members



Kay Huck, Joyce Vassar, Carolyn Trahan, Kim Chapman, Beverly Martin, Jocelyn Rizzuto