With the pileup of responsibilities that range from programming to outreach to web management, more and more librarians are finding vendor-based book selection enticing. Most librarians see vendor-based selection as an option to relieve the pressure and still provide good collections to their patrons. However, using vendors to help facilitate…

Presents six brief articles by six Arizona teachers offering their reflections about practices, strategies, and vision as they make changes toward a multicultural curriculum. (SR)

Multimedia materials which will enrich a junior high school student's appreciation of Arizona are compiled in this bibliography. The materials included were selected using criteria of availability, moderate cost, appeal, readability level of the materials is the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades, but, to allow for reading achievement variations,…

The bibliography of approximately 550 entries is a sample of those available on Arizona for elementary school students. Topics include Arizona history and culture, Mexican lore, and information about Navajo Indians. Although some of the titles are too difficult for the reading level of elementary school students, they are included because no other…

Information on censorship problems in Arizona junior high schools (grades 7-8) was gathered through a questionnaire survey of 50 English teachers in 39 schools. (See also ED 026 396 for information on high school censorship problems in Arizona.) Statistical data were collected on the number of schools, teachers, and books involved in direct or…

Living in an age of communication, literacy is an extremely integral part of our society. We are impacted by literature during our infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. "Literacy for the New Millennium" includes information from specialists in the field who discuss the influence of popular culture, media, and technology on…