International code for Norwegian Sign Language and others...

Dan Parvaz dparvaz at MAC.COM
Wed Jul 9 12:18:21 UTC 2003


> There is probably a category for Deaf-themed literature (Train Go
> Sorry's call number is HV2561.N72 N35 1995 at NYU), so any original
> Deaf-themed literature would probably go in with that.

The HV prefix places it in the Library of Congress' general area for
disabilities and other social concerns, somewhere between blindness and
child abuse. Most books on signed languages fall in the same place,
including books from  the point of view of linguistics.

Ugh,

Dan.



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