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 Each year, Marian benefactor and uncle Frank Bracha sends flowers on the October 1st birthday of Margaret Wrubel, whose estate created an endowed annual scholarship for a Catholic student at Marian.
Marian's learning center in the library is named in memory of Wrubel and serves as a valuable tutoring area for many students.
The Marian Catholic High School library has two full time professional librarians and one full time paraprofessional. There are about 22 thousand volumes (books) in the library. Students have access to 115 magazines, journals, and newspapers subscribed to in the library. For research purposes the library subscribes to a variety of magazine, journal, and newspaper indexes, which are in the print, CD-ROM, and online formats. The students also have access to an extensive backfile of  magazines, journals, and newspapers on microfiche. Articles are also faxed in from other libraries in the Suburban Library System, and other systems. Through the use of ILLINET, students can browse the card catalogs from academic libraries all over the state of Illinois. Through interlibrary loan, books may also be ordered through ILLINET.
World Wide Web access is available in the library. The library is totally automated. The students need their IDs to check out materials. Most materials in our library circulate.
The library is open from 6:45 am to 4:45 pm. Students can come in before or after school, during their study hall or as part of a class. Students use the library for research, study, and individual enrichment or leisure reading. 
Marian's library provides instructional services on a variety of levels and settings.
This includes consultation by appointment, scheduled classroom instruction and formal lectures for freshmen orientation and junior and senior term papers. The library provides instruction in research methods, library and bibliographic-related software, library and Internet resources, and curriculum-development.
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