The All Saints’ library program focuses on helping students develop an appreciation of books and learn effective research skills. The goals of the program are to:
- Encourage a life-long appreciation of literature.
- Enable students to locate and critically evaluate information.
- Guide students in accessing the resources of the library appropriately.
- Expose students to visiting authors and their works.
- Expose students to a variety of literary genre.
Library staff conduct weekly classes for lower school students. They advise middle school students on database use and encourage exposure to a variety of genre through book talks. They make sure students are introduced to award-winning literature such as Caldecott and Newbery books.
Student life is further enriched through the visiting authors program and through experiences such as Poetry Alive! and CrossWorlds. The Destiny Research Center offers students and their families a comprehensive database that can be used at school or from home. Just click on any of the links below to get started.
Destiny Research Center - New and Improved!
Destiny Research resources include several subscription-only databases that can be assessed with user name and password:
- Grolier Online: uses the power of technology to provide an integrated, web-based encyclopedic resource which includes: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, Lands and People, and American the Beautiful. Also included are four age-appropriate dictionaries, two thesauri, an almanac, and an interactive atlas, along with periodical articles, updated news, web site links, and bibliographies.
- EBSCO: designed specifically for elementary school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 70 elementary school magazines, plus the Encyclopedia of Animals™, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, and an image collection. provides full text for 57 children’s magazines and over 100 children’s pamphlets; designed for elementary school students.
- Facts on File: Ancient and Medieval History Online explores the pre-modern world with in-depth information on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia; Modern World History Online covers the people, places, and events in the expanse of history from mid-15th century to the present.
- SIRS Discoverer: an award-winning general reference resource for beginning researchers in grades one through nine. The database includes articles and images from over 1,900 newspapers, magazines, and government documents, plus more than 9,000 web links. designed for the young researcher.
- SIRS Researcher: a general reference database that contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political, and global issues. Articles are selected from more than 1,500 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and U.S. government publications. Articles are archived from 1989 to the present.
Destiny Research also contains more than 30 web sites, encyclopedias, and search engines which provide access to the most appropriate information for elementary and middle school students. All of these resources are available through the One Search feature which searches all of these databases with the click of a button.
Additionally, students and parents can use Destiny to search the library collection for all AR books using book level, book points, subject, author, title, or any combination. Lists can be customized and printed.
Other Library Resources:
Arizona State University
Maricopa County Library
Phoenix Public Library
Scottsdale Public Library |