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We have a collection of popular manga and graphic novels. Some are listed in this InfoGuide. We also have Deaf Characters in manga and graphic novels, such as Echo. Alaqua Cox (who is a speaker during Brick City events this year) is a Native American Deaf actress. She was in a breakout role as Maya Lopez/Echo within the Marvel cinematic universe.

Diane Castle interviews Dr. James Marsters, a deaf orthodontist and dental surgeon. Dr. Marsters discusses the time before deaf people had access to telephones and his desire to develop telephone communication for the deaf. Together with Bob Weitbrecht and Andrew Saks, Marsters developed the first acoustic coupler for teletype communication. This video is captioned. https://youtu.be/X7vO29FOc_c?si=mkQXOFg41c4ZoC6C

Hey Listen videos—33 have been digitized (thanks to Patrick Smith) and are posted on the library YouTube site. This was a tv program hosted by Jackie Schertz. She interviewed guests on various topics related to the deaf community. This may be of interest to Deaf Studies, ASLIE, and LEAD classes. The playlist link is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9AVA9M35m5s0LsiyJB0jJBQ5-YzTluvj

If you are thinking about requesting streaming media titles for your Fall 2024 classes, here are some important updates:

Thanks to Rhonda Voight-Campbell for sharing this radio interview that Dave Miller from Oregon Public Broadcasting conducted with Jelica Nuccio about Protactile language. A short video captures clips of their conversation in Protactile language.  

Check out this resource link about teaching Shakespeare's MacBeth to Deaf students. 

Check out the Asian Signers website. Deaf Asians share ASL literature! For more information about this group, there is a National Asian & Pacific Islander Deaf Coalition Facebook page. If interested in Asian Deaf leaders, check out this InfoGuide section.

Throughout this past year, RIT Libraries have regularly informed the RIT Community that the Connect NY consortium will cease to exist at the end of this fiscal year, with the service being discontinued as of June 14th, 2024.

Despite this, IDS Express (Interlibrary Loan) will continue to operate as RIT’s resource-sharing request platform, ensuring the same level of reliability and access to resources. Items currently borrowed through Connect NY will not be disrupted or recalled, and no fines will be accrued.

From Gallaudet University

Open AI Whisper has accessibility options that will help create accessible content.

Subtitling and closed captioning: It can automatically generate subtitles and closed captions for videos, improving accessibility for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community and viewers who prefer to watch videos with text.