Gallaudet University Library Guide to Deaf Biographies
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This work contains primarily deaf and notable hard-of-hearing people, but a few hearing people who have been important to or influential on the deaf are included also. Unless specifically identified otherwise, a subject may be assumed to be deaf.
This work does not pretend to be comprehensive. Additional deaf persons, and additional information about persons represented here, can be found in some other sources, most notably the Index to Deaf Periodicals database and in the Deaf Biographical Files in the Gallaudet University Archives. Some deaf individuals are also represented by single-subject biographical books in the Deaf Collection; consult the ALADIN catalog for these.
“fl.”, used for many dates, indicates “flourished”, and is used when a subject’s birth and death years are both unknown, but a definite year somewhere during the person’s life can be established. When no year is known with any confidence, an indication of which century is used instead.
Source titles are abbreviated. Refer to the Sources list for complete citations and locations in the Gallaudet University Library. Where no reference is given, the subject information came from a minor, non-reference type source (e.g., a brief mention in a magazine article or an on-line news service).
HOW TO GET COPIES
The Gallaudet University Library does not sell copies of articles from
the Gallaudet University Library Guide to Deaf Biographies. To obtain
copies of articles, contact your local library. If your library does
not have these periodicals, it can obtain photocopies for you, on your
request, through Interlibrary Loan. Your library will not necessarily
get those copies from Gallaudet University; it will usually find the
nearest other library having those items and make the request to that
library. There may or may not be a charge for Interlibrary Loan,
depending on the policies of your library and of the lending library.
Your librarian will advise you of any charges or restrictions.
CREDITS
Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to:
Tom Harrington, a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Gallaudet University, is responsible for the content of this database.
Jane Rutherford, also a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Gallaudet University, does the coding to make the database accessible on the Web.
The Gallaudet University Library thanks the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) for housing the database on its server and for technical assistance in setting up and helping Gallaudet Library staff maintain it.
To create this list, a master index to multi-subject deaf biographical works, by Thomas R. Harrington, was merged with a deaf biographical database developed by Carolyn Jones, and greatly expanded and added to by Harrington.
