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- The Saint Luke Catholic School library program follows the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Elementary Library Skills Curriculum. The mission of the Catholic elementary school library program is to support and extend all curriculum areas. The library program of Saint Luke Catholic School strives to prepare students to become effective users of information and to be literate life-long learners. The library curriculum serves as a framework for teaching research strategies; developing skills to analyze, evaluate, interpret, and communicate information and ideas. The curriculum fosters an appreciation of literature, promotes reading for pleasure, and encourages independent learning experiences. The library curriculum fosters a general appreciation of literature with a strong foundation in our Catholic faith.
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  Library Links for research: Kids' Power Library
  Library class meets once each week for preschool through third grade. During the library period we not only discuss library organization and the Dewey Decimal System, but the students also research and learn methods of citing sources of information. We learn about the history of the English language, genres of books, and authors. Most importantly, our goal is for the students to develop a love of reading.
  Students at St. Luke Catholic School have the opportunity to borrow a book each week from the library. To access our holdings, teachers' resource lists, the most popular books, and new additions to the catalog, please click on the Destiny-Library link. Any computer or device with internet access can search our catalog remotely.
  The library curriculum serves as a framework for teaching research strategies; developing skills to analyze, evaluate, interpret, and communicate information and ideas; fostering an appreciation for literature, promoting reading for pleasure, and encouraging independent learning experiences. This framework acknowledges the gospel message and nurtures our Catholic heritage.
- "I ask you, are you Christians because of a label, or in truth? And for each one the answer is within. Not Christians, never Christians because of a label! Christians in truth, in the heart. To be Christian is to live and witness to the faith in prayer, in works of charity, in promoting justice, in doing good. For the narrow gate which is Christ must pass into our whole life." Pope Francis
  
  Text from page http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/08/25/pope_francis:_you_are_not_excluded!/en1-722638 of the Vatican Radio website
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  "Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power." Amy Tan /photoalbums/library/Amy%20Tan.jpeg _parent
  
  "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." Benjamin Franklin /photoalbums/library/Benjamin%20Franklin.jpeg _parent
  
  "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry." Emily Dickinson /photoalbums/library/Emily%20Dickinson.jpeg _parent
  
  "A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people." Frederick Douglass /photoalbums/library/Frederick%20Douglass.jpeg _parent
  
  "When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business." Flannery O'Connor /photoalbums/library/Oconner.jpeg _parent
  
  "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." Ray Bradbury /photoalbums/library/Ray%20Bradbury.jpeg _parent
  
  "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." Robert Frost /photoalbums/library/Robert%20Frost.jpeg _parent