Learning Packet: Play

              SONORAN HERITAGE 

Learning Packet 


What is a "Learning Packet"?


A POTPOURRI OF IDEAS

A GRAB-BAG OF FACTS.

NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT HISTORY.

A GUIDE TO OUR SPECIAL PLACE.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TUCSON PUBLIC LIBRARY AND OTHER CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
READY AND ABLE TO HELP US TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT OURSELVES.


Every agency of the Tucson Public Library has staff librarians especially
informed of the "Sonoran Heritage" Learning Library programs and resources.
The materials enclosed are for your independent and group study with the aid
of these individuals and leaders of the classes and workshops. They are
meant to stimUlate reading and research, thinking, writing, collecting, and
organizing projects and activities in neighborhoods, families, clubs, or
alone.

The materials were prepared with funds from the National Endowment for
the Humanities Cultural Institutions Program. A grant awarded in the fall of
1977 provides for the development of programs, print materials and videotapes
on the topics: SHELTER*, FOOD*, WORK*, CLOTHING*, PLAY, FAMILY, POWER, DESTINY
and GENIUS over a period of three years. The packets will be distributed free
of charge at the library agencies as soon as they are compiled, and will be
made part of the Tucson Public Library permanent collection.

The idea that one can educate oneself at the public library is an old one.
Andrew Carnegie did it. But the support of the National Endowment for the Hu­manities
for this kind of education is quite new. Only four other cities in
the United States have NEH Learning Library programs Boston, Chicago, New
Orleans and Houston. In Tucson, it has necessitated the pulling together of
materials and ideas from many institutions and individuals, as our Sonoran
heritage is of interest to many different peoples and disciplines of study.

*Learning Packet now available.


SONORAN HERITAGE

"Clothing and Costume" Learning Packet

WHAT IS A LEARNING PACKET 2


To guide us in our progress, an Advisory Board meets at regular intervals
and provides a continual source of information and support to the "Sonoran
Heritage" staff.


Advisory Board


J. Bankston, Scholar/Researcher, Historic Technologies

Louis Bernal, Photography/Art Instructor, Pima Community College

Charles Bowden, Writer/Historian

Bernard Fontana, Field Historian, University of Arizona Library

Robert C. Giebner, Professor of Architecture, University of Arizona

Raquel Goldsmith, History Department, Pima Community College

Jim Griffith, Folklorist/Lecturer, and Coordinator, "Tucson Meet Yourself"

Gary Nabhan, Junior Faculty Member, Plant Sciences Department, University of
Arizona

Carolyn Niethammer, Author of American Indian Food and Lore and Daughters of
the Earth


Staff


Kathleen R. Dannreuther, Project Director

Karen Fisher, Creative Consultant

Susan Morton, Research Assistant

Barbara Baun Zetts, Secretary

John F. Anderson, Library Director

Susan Goldberg, Coordinator of Adult/Young Adult Services

Sarajean Marks, Video Librarian


To Receive Help at Your Branch of the Tucson Public Library ask at the Reference
Desk for the Sonoran Heritage "Liaison."


SONORAN HERITAGE IS A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES LEARNING LIBRARY
PROGRM1 AT THE TUCSON PUBLIC LIBRARY.