catologing

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
November 28, 2003

> This is mostly merely a matter of curiosity, but it came up in a 
> discussion
> I had last week with my Cataloging professor about how to catalog 
> unlabeled
> sound and visual materials which are in languages that have no written 
> form.
>  I thought I ªÝ  ask all of you experts for your thoughts, too :-)  
> With your
> comments, I ª_ l then be as prepared as I can be if this type of 
> cataloging
> challenge should ever come up!
>
> Kirsten Klinghammer
> Sacramento Deaf Services Library Foundation
> www.sacdeaflib.org
> klingham at avantac.com (preferred)

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Dear SW List members, Joe and Kirsten -
Thank you, Joe, for posting Kirsten's message to our List....

Kirsten...Guess what? Sign Languages are becoming written languages 
now, so there is a written form for ASL that you could use...it is 
called "SignWriting", and our SignWriting List discusses the 
topic...Perhaps you would like to join? Or at least write to me with 
further questions...

Valerie Sutton
Sutton at SignWriting.org

And oh...by the way...we can write, and even catalog ASL titles, 
searching for those titles by Sign-Symbols...which we call the 
Sign-Symbol-Sequence (SSS)...the only problem is that the library 
system doesn't realize this exists yet...Do you have any ideas as to 
how to get libraries to implement such an ASL cataloging system? My 
experience is that it takes time to get such new ideas established in 
institutions...however cataloging it by hand would be no problem...so 
we would be glad to teach you how...

Thanks for writing!

Val ;-)


Valerie Sutton
Sutton at SignWriting.org

1. SignWriting Site
http://www.SignWriting.org
Read & Write Sign Languages

2. SignBank Site
http://www.SignBank.org
Sign Language Diatabases

3. Post a message to
The SignWriting List
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4. Read old messages
SignWriting List Archives
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5. Catalog Online
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Books, videos, CDs, software

6. DanceWriting Site
http://www.DanceWriting.org
Read & Write Dance

7. MovementWriting Site
http://www.MovementWriting.org
Read & Write Movement & Gesture


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