Introducing the new series online …

GOT DEAF CULTURE @ YOUR LIBRARY?
ASK A LIBRARIAN!

This series is an ongoing project initiated by Alice L. Hagemeyer for the benefit of the subscribers to The Red Notebook as well as partners and boosters of the National Literary Society of the Deaf.
 
The Goal is to familiarize American libraries with deaf-related membership organizations, their history and resources.
 

Topic Series: 2008-2010

A. Deaf-related membership organizations
          National / State / Regional / Local
          Acronym, Founding year, Web site
B. Interest groups
C. Tributes

            
Gallaudet University Alumni Association (GUAA) 1889
http://alumni.gallaudet.edu/
Class of 1957
Gilbert C. Eastman
 
National Association of the Deaf (NAD) 1880
www.nad.org
Library Friends
Edna P. Adler
 
Deaf Seniors of America, Inc. (DSA) 1992
www.deafseniors.org
Deaf Cincinnatus
Thomas Brown
 
National Council of Hispano Deaf and Hard of Hearing (NCHDHH) 2006
www.nchdhh.org
Puerto Ricans
Pedro Ponce de Leon
 
Black Deaf Advocates (BDA) 1981
www.nbda.org
African-Americans
Andrew J. Foster
 
National Asian Deaf Congress (NADC) 1994
www.nadc-usa.org
Philippines-Americans
Delight Rice
 
Intertribal Deaf Council (IDC) 1993
www.deafnative.com/
Indian Affairs
Jerry Hassell
 
Deaf Pilots Association (DPA) 2001
www.deafpilots.com/
Pioneers
Nellie Zabel Willhite
 
Nebraska School for the Deaf Alumni Association (NSDAA) 1901
www.nsdaa.org
Alumni (1869-1998)
Florence and Nichols “Nick” Petersen
 
Maryland Association of the Deaf (MDAD) 1956
www.mdad.org
Jurisdictions
Leon Auerbach
 
Christ Lutheran Church of the Deaf  (ChristDeaf)  Metropolitan Washington, DC and Gallaudet University  1947
www.christdeaf.org
Helping Hands Guild
Ruth R. Peterson and Anna S. Snyder
 
(will add new organizations when Topic Series: 2008-2010 is complete.)
 

SAVVY Members: A Test For Knowledge
Coordinated by Alice L. Hagemeyer, MLS

A. Organizations
B. Libraries 
C. Notable People
D. Deaf Historical events

 Ongoing project

       
2008