FOLDA E-NEWS
May 2012
Breaking News: Two important national conferences in 2012
1. American Library Association: June 21 – 26, 2012 in Anaheim, CA
2012 Annual Conference http://www.ala.org — TRANSFORMING LIBRARIES, OURSELVES
During the week on Saturday, 8 am to 10 am, June 23, 2012, there will be a group discussion, DEAF GATEWAY TO COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS.
Meeting description: Libraries and Organizations Serving the Deaf (OSD) working together to develop model programming where the deaf community can gather for reflection, discovery, participation, and growth @ your library. They will also discuss birth celebration plans for Abbé Charles-Michel de l’Épée, Father of Deaf Education, who was born 300 years ago on November 25, 1712.
Alec McFarlane and Alice Hagemeyer will represent NAD’s Library Friends Section at this ALA conference and will share the result with members at the following NAD biennial conference.
2. National Association of the Deaf: July 3-7, 2012 in Louisville, KY
51st Biennial Conference
http://www.nad.org/louisville
NOTHING ABOUT US, WITHOUT US!
During the week, from Wednesday, July 4 to Saturday, July 7, 2012, the NAD Exhibit Hall of the Kentucky International Convention Center will be open to the public. The theme of Library Friends Section of the NAD booth will be “Nothing About NAD, Without Laurent Clerc and Abbé Charles-Michel de l’Épée!” (see link below) Its visitors will be amused when playing deaf fun games related to NAD’s rich heritage and deaf writings. There will also be many workshops, programs and meetings that members in both deaf and library communities will not want to miss. Colin Allen, president of the World Federation of the Deaf will be the keynote speaker during the Opening Ceremonies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abb%C3%A9
Save May 6 and 7, 2013 – The date of the next National Library Legislative Day (NLLD) !
To learn more about the past 2012 NLLD, please visit http://www.ala.org/nlld Alice L. Hagemeyer and Alec McFarlane from Maryland attended this 2012 event; they also joined with five other MD library advocates to meet with their US representative, Chris Van Hollen. They discussed the need to build a future library — Deaf Culture Digital Library – on the national level and to have the US President proclaim March 13 – April 15 as National Deaf History Month.
Patricia Raswant, deaf library friend and professional, attended the whole three-day conference with her group from Virginia. She shared her experience on the FACEBOOK: This past week (22-24), I was involved with the National Library
Legislative Day that was sponsored by American Library Association. There were about 350 delegates from 50 states, and each group of delegates from a state talked with their legislators (both parties) of our concern about the broad and vague language and lack of civil liberties (privacy) in CISPA (Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act) yet the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed it yesterday on the 26th! Please call your senators to stop CISPA!
Patricia agrees that we should see many members of the deaf community participating in this important annual library political event that would involve deaf / disability issues and advocacy training. If interested to be involved in 2013 NLLD, please let your local library and friends group know.
Deaf Cultural Program In Maryland
On March 31, 2012, the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Maryland Division of Library Development and Services co-sponsored a successful deaf cultural program, Maryland Legacy: A Celebration of Deaf Education and Sign Language in observance of Deaf History Month (March 13- April 15). This program paid tribute to Abbé de l’Épée, founder of the first public school for the deaf in the world, on the 300th anniversary of his birth. Four partners of the programs: (1) Maryland Governor’s Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, (2) the Maryland School for the Deaf (MSD), (3) the Maryland Association of the Deaf, and (4) the National Association of the Deaf (NAD). Three guest speakers: Molly Raphael, President, American Library Association; Chad Baker, Director of MSD Museum, and Deaf author, Jack R. Gannon, with Howard Rosenblum, NAD CEO and publisher of his book, WORLD FEDERATION OF THE DEAF: A HISTORY. There was also a proclamation of the month by Maryland Governor: Martin O’Malley.
NAD affiliates and other organizations serving the deaf wishing to have s similar program in their area may ask to form partnerships with their local library or state library.
Deaf Cultural Digital Library and National Deaf History Month
Both topics will be discussed at both NAD and ALA conferences this summer. Stay tuned.
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