November 5, 2009

New Archives Collections

Deaf Women of Rochester recently donated their materials to the RIT Library Deaf Studies Archives.

Aaron Kelstone of NTID Deaf Culture and Creative Studies recently donated Deaf Australian Theater materials.

Patricia Durr of NTID Deaf Culture and Creative Studies recently donated Deaf Holocaust materials.

Guides will be up soon describing the materials.

Meanwhile, check out these archives guides via http://library.rit.edu/directory/453

RIT Online Learning Adds IM Service

Online Learning Services recently retired our TTY line and have switched over to instant messenger support. I wanted to share that information with you all. It will be added to our site at http://online.rit.edu/contact shortly and will include a Meebo chat box, similar to the Live Reference Help.

AIM: online@rit.edu
Meebo: RIT_OLS
MSN: online@rit.edu
Yahoo: RIT_OLS

November 2, 2009

Best websites of 2009 from PC Magazine

http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=242492&a=242570,00.asp

Deaf Rochy Event Calendar

New website detailing events in the Rochester community

http://www.deafrochy.com/

Memorial Art Gallery ASL Explanations and Visual Guides

Go to http://mag.rochester.edu/PicturingTheStory/
click EXPLORE THE STORIES THESE ART WORKS HAVE TO TELL

Click any image

Click PICTURING THE STORY (TOP LEFT ) to see the ASL video

Each artwork has an ASL description in the PICTURING THE STORY tab

Captioned Video Search Engine

http://www.22frames.com/

Its goal is to provide a single place for discovering captioned/subtitled web videos across multiple sites on the Internet.

New Blog Address for People of the Eye

Now located at http://handeyes.wordpress.com/
Patricia Durr writes/signs this blog/vlog.

Contact


Joan Naturale

NTID Library Liaison
RIT, Wallace Library, Bldg 5-1422
90 Lomb Memorial Dr.
Rochester, NY 14623-5603

585.475.2760 TTY
585.475.7007 Fax
Voice Callers: Use 711 (off campus) or 96# (RIT)
Videophone: 866-563-4760 (toll-free)
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