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 * The Role of the Primary Library**

The Primary Library Resource Center plays an integral role in the education of all primary students the International School of Paris. Library skills and procedures are taught as transdisciplinary skills which are linked to the context and concepts that the students are studying in their classroom Units of Inquiry in our PYP programme.

Our Programme of library research skills and appreciation of literature and information sources including both traditional book resources and digital materials are developed across the Units of Inquiry in a planned sequential continuum including: introduction to a skill, practice of that skill and evidence of application of that skill from Kindergarten through Grade 5. The librarian and the classroom teachers collaborate in the planning and teaching of these research skills.

The Library programme is differentiated in order to have the flexibility to meet the educational needs, aptitudes and interests of all students, and to encourage a lifelong love of reading and inquiry..

The Primary Library Resource Center contributes to the development of skills and attitudes that foster independance, self-motivation, critical thinking, responsibility and academic honesty, all of which lead to a commitment to life-long learning,