National Deaf Community to Discuss Book

Posted: 3/7/2008 at 12:44 PM

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Deaf America Reads: “One Book” Reading Promotion Project, March 13, 2008 – March 13, 2010

Posted: 06 Mar 2008 10:38 AM CSTI received the following email today from Alice L. Hagemeyer, Director of the National Literary Society of the Deaf:

On Thursday, March 13, 2008 from 11:00 a.m. to 12 noon, the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, in partnership with the National Literary Society of the Deaf (NLSD), will be hosting a program entitled, “Researching Amos Kendall: Adventures in Library Research, Literature and Literacy.” In 1856, Amos donated land to support the establishment of the first school for deaf children in the District of Columbia, now a part of Gallaudet University.

The program will be held in the Mumford Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC. Stephen Weiner, provost, Gallaudet University, Diana Gates, Reference Librarian, Gallaudet University, and Lance Fischer, retired archivist and co-editor of “The History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907" by Edward Miner Gallaudet, will be among speakers. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-044.html

At the closing of the program, Ricardo Lopez, president of NLSD and Lois Hoover, board member and artist, will unveil the NLSD’s “One Book” Reading Promotion Project: Deaf America Reads: March 13, 2008 – March 13, 2010. The title selected for “One Book” will be announced at that time. "This is a wonderful opportunity for the national deaf community to get together to discuss the same book during the two-year project,” said Ricardo Lopez.

Julie Bourne, National Association of the Deaf board member who will make closing remarks at the program agrees. “We must emphasize the importance of local and state level deaf-related organizations collaborating with local libraries across the nation to promote books and reading.”

A Sneak Preview: The title selected for “One Book” is “Moment of Truth: Robert R. Davila: The Story of a Deaf Leader,” by Harry G. Lang, Oscar P. Cohen and Joseph E. Fischgrund. 240 pages, illustrated .

About this book and plans for programming in your community, please visit after March 13, 2008
http://www.folda.net/lib/index.html#reading

Submitted by Alice L. Hagemeyer, Director
National Literary Society of the Deaf
www.folda.net/nlsd