major bookstore chain--uggh! CLOTE...interesting!!!

[Professor Des Power]

Australia leads as usual!!!   :-)      LOTEs and CLOTEs live!!

Des

Linda Lee Lonning wrote:

> Thank you to everyone for sharing their stories about where their local
> bookstores keep their sign language/Deaf culture books.  That strand of
> replies gave me insights as to how far-reaching people in numerous
> countries are making funky categorizations of
> books on these topics!   (...putting sign language, Deaf culture, sign
> "dictionaries" with books about medicine, braille, large print, in dark
> corners that one sometimes would have to have a pretty good **roadmap** to
> locate!)
>
> I appreciate the "LOTE" and "CLOTE" acronyms and have it somewhere on my
> "to do" list to submit those terms possibly to Barnes and Noble in my
> region and/or possibly see how far up I could go with that.  We shall see.
> I already passed on what I've learned from this discussion to several
> colleaguges.  So far the LOTE and CLOTE terms are getting thumbs up here.
> Thanks for the list's collective wisdom!  ;)
>
> Linda Lonning, BS, CI & CT
> (soooooon to be signing off at this address to hopefully sign on from
> another address)
> That terp in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, USA
>

--
Professor Des Power, Director
Centre for Deafness Studies and Research, and
Language Australia, Centre for Deafness and Communication  Studies
Faculty of Education
Griffith University, QLD 4111
Australia

Tel:  (617) 3875 5654
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