Transforming: Community Relationships

Program: Deaf Culture: Libraries Connect A Library Strategy for Inclusive Deaf Community Engagement

Deaf Culture: Libraries Connect - A Library Strategy for Inclusive Deaf Community Engagement

Sunday, June 26, 2022

11:00am – 12:00pm

Location: Washington Convention Center, 143B

Underserved and non-served deaf communities frequently don't have access to a public library, or aren't aware of existing services that would meet their information needs. How can library professionals effectively reach out to this underserved community? Join us for a panel about how libraries, schools, nonprofits, and other organizations and institutions can leverage programming to break down barriers of misunderstanding and to open opportunities among the larger populace. Librarians serve in unique positions that can enable portals that could, in turn, help a deaf child transcend the metamorphosis of infancy to adulthood as a productive and contributing member of society. The end objective is twofold: to enable librarians as they are and to empower librarians of the future.

Learning Objectives:

Participant will be able to use toolkits to build their own programming to reach a wider or missed audiences and/or to expose their platforms and capacities to those in need.
Participant will be able to foster relationships between the hearing and the deaf at ALA and public libraries so as to meet the needs of underserved or non-served deaf populations.
Participants will learn about the utility of Public-Private Partnerships and to be able to leverage the many library types through a person's cradle-to-grave lifecycle.

Speaker(s)

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Alicia Deal

Public Service Librarian
Dallas Public Library

Main Contact(s)

Alice Hagemeyer

Former Librarian & Bridging Deaf Cultures Leader
Bridging Deaf Cultures, an interest group of ALA's Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services (ODLOS)

Speaker(s)

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KayCee Choi

Library manager
Dallas Public Library
Alec C. McFarlane

Master Builder & Organizational Development Specialist
National Literary Society of the Deaf, Inc.
Laurent Clerc Holt

Administrator
The Laurent Clerc Stamp Project
IT

Irene Tunanidas

President
The Ohio Association of the Deaf