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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Sep 29, 2000 12:42 am Subject: Re: SignWriting at Gallaudet | |
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At 11:38 PM +0000 9/28/00, joe martin wrote: >Hi Valerie; >I went into the library and talked with Priscilla today. They seemed >not to have any idea what SW was even.I pulled up the website on >their computer and showed them. She asked if the dictionary was >Signed English (sigh) I put in a plug for SW; they took my e-mail >address and told me they would keep me posted about it. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SignWriting List September 28, 2000 Hello Joe, and Everyone on the SW List... Thank you Joe, for doing that...I assure you, even if they had never heard of it, you have helped in the process...how can they know about it, if people do not speak up and ask for it? But let us also look at the facts. Priscilla O'Donnell at the Gallaudet Bookstore (not the library) just ordered $700 worth of dictionaries in SignWriting. They sent me a purchase order on Gallaudet stationery! I shipped them on September 26th. There were four boxes, a total of 20 thick notebooks ordered...they ordered the "Sutton's American Sign Language Dictionary"...and they seemed to know it was in SignWriting... Plus Priscilla wrote a very positive letter to me, requesting to review all of our videos, and told me that after October 15th, they plan to review them...but this has NOTHING to do with the Library....it has to do with book sales through the bookstore. So I can hardly believe that Priscilla didn't know about SignWriting, when she has written letters and email messages to me...was it Priscilla O'Donnell you spoke with? Plus, humorously enough, the Library has purchased several SignWriting books and videos in the past, so either they don't know what is in their Library, or they didn't ever put the items on the shelves.... But this is the very reason why speaking up helps us...in time it will catch on if you encourage them to look at the web site - Many thanks, Joe! -- Val ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton Visit the SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org |
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