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Valerie Sutton Date: Sun Nov 22, 1998 1:14 am Subject: Re: SW Literature in Libraries | ||||||||
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Cheryl Zapien wrote: >Valerie: You need to get in touch with Chris Wixtrom--the lady I told you >about. She might be able to give you some ideas. She has a deaf librarian on >the board of ASLACCESS. You guys are a natural match. I think you can >contact >her by going to her website: www.aslaccess.org. If not, let me know. Cheryl ______________________ November 21, 1998 Hi Cheryl and everyone- Thank you for this suggestion. I never got the chance to contact Christine Wixtrom. Then yesterday, Christine wrote to me! It turns out that back in the mid-1980's, one of our Deaf staff members, Philip "Flipper" Clarkson, wrote to Christine in SignWriting. I had not realized the connection...it is true we had a SignWriting pen pal club back then and Flipper wrote to several people in both ASL and English. Christine informed me yesterday, that recently people have been contacting ASL Access, asking for information on SignWriting. So Christine requested that I send our four SW videos to ASL Access for review. I did that today. If they are accepted, the videos will be made available to libraries. Here is information about ASL Access, which Christine sent to me: "ASL Access is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization providing information about ASL video resources and assisting public libraries in acquiring ASL video collections. You can visit the web site at.... https://www.aslaccess.org ...and take a look at the Resources section. Click on "Reviews" to see reviews of sign language videos. Click on "Sign Language Catalogs and Sources" for a list of over 40 sources for ASL videos. Check DeafNation newspaper, November 1998 (inside of front page) for an article about ASL Access, as well as other newspapers in December for other articles on ASL Access. In addition to providing information about ASL resources to the general public, the organization recommends to public librarians a pre-selected set of sign video resources, and assists with funding for public library acquisition of this set. If the videos are reviewed, the reviews will be placed on the ASL Access web site and sent to newspapers and other publications. It is possible for videos which are reviewed to be added to the "core" set of ASL video resources ("The Collection") which is recommended to public librarians." Christine Wixtrom ASL Access _______________________________ Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton at the DAC Deaf Action Committee for SW SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||||||||
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