This surprised me when I interviewed the media specialist, and her reasoning was that upper grades needed them for projects much of the time. While I understand this, in the social studies curriculum in first grade alone they study many individuals such as Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and Ruby Bridges. Students might want to explore those people more than what they have discussed in the classroom and having the ability to check out biographies could allow that to happen. As Johnson & Donham point out “...access is not dependent on age or reading