Ohio School for the Deaf's Library

Celebrate Juneteenth, Freedom Day!

ID: Hands with various brown skin color spell “Juneteenth” in the ASL manual alphabet. Below is a heart made of red, black, and green horizontal stripes with the word “JUNETEENTH” in gold letters across the black stripe. The background is gold with a green, red, and black frame.

Attending Ohio Literacy Academy today and tomorrow to learn more about the science of reading!

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Find hundreds of free videos of ASL retellings of your child’s favorite books on our site. Research shows that reading and signing stories together helps promote essential literacy skills for ALL children: deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing.

https://deafchildren.org/knowledge-center/asl-resources/sign-language-stories/

We add new signed stories to the ASL Stories Directory each week. If you have a favorite video not listed here or you want to add your video of you and your child signing one of your favorite books, please share it with Cheri at [email protected]. Thank you.

ID: ASL Stories Directory, Overlapped children’s books with a Youtube logo centered. Vectors of open hands reaching upwards. White box with text. www.deafchildren.org

****SIGNFEST POSTPONED TO MAY 19TH****
Students and student leaders have been working hard to make Signfest a success this year!

Due to many recent opportunities and events: Academic Bowl, state testing, the Eclipse, a trip to Washington DC, and more, students and student directors have asked for more time to make this one of the best Signfests yet! We want our students to feel confident and shine!

We will partner in hosting a spring carnival open to the public on May 19th. We will host Signfest in late afternoon on May 19th and hope the gym will be full of fans! More details to come.

We are deeply sorry for any incovenience and appreciate your continued support of students who are working hard to prepare an amazing program for you all on May 19th.

Happy School Librarian Day! 📚🧑‍🏫

Way to go, Spartan Chefs! 🧑‍🍳🥉

OSD and OSSB students learned about the writing and publishing process from Misty and David Wilson, author and illustrator of Play Like a Girl. So cool to have them share their story of making their first book!

OSD is excited to partner with to bring author and illustrator team and to our schools on Friday! Students are enjoying their book 🏈Play Like a Girl 🏈 as we get ready to welcome them!

Happy New Year! Swipe for some fun new year’s reads 📖

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1-Bitmoji characters of Nancy and Tatum in front of fireworks spelling Happy New Year
2-book cover for Happy New Year, Spot! by Eric Hill
3-book cover for Snow Horses by Patricia MacLachlan
4-book cover for Freedom Soup by Tami Charles
5-Feliz New Year, Ava Gabriela! by Alexandra Alessandri
6-Shante Keys and the New Year’s Peas by Gail Piernas-Davenport
7-Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution by Pat Miller
8-Every Month Is a New Year by Marilyn Singer

It’s BOOK FAIR time! The Scholastic Book Fair is open in the library NOW through Wednesday, December 6 in the library during school hours.

Check out our online fair at www.scholastic.com/bf/ohioschoolforthedeaf

All purchases benefit our school!

This week our middle school Battle of the Books team got their books to start reading for the November preliminaries! We’re excited to have a student from Upper Arlington schools joint our team.

OSD and OSSB librarians attended school librarian conference. We have so many great ideas we’re bringing back with us!

High school students use the library during academic intervention time (similar to study hall) to check out new books and even to help out with library tasks!

What a perfect way to celebrate with amazing, live ASL literature with ❗️
Justin spent the morning in workshops with students, then gave an interactive performance for the whole school. Justin’s visual vernacular pieces included stories and poetry.

Come work with us!

WE’RE HIRING! OSD and OSSB are looking for THREE custodians to join our team!

✅ Starting salary $17.20/hour ($35,776 annually)

✅ Work hours 4:30am to 1:00pm

✅ Paid time off including vacation, personal, and sick leave

✅ Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance

✅ Retirement plan

Visit https://dasstateoh.taleo.net/careersection/oh_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=230008EH&tz=GMT-04%3A00&tzname=America%2FNew_York to apply, or contact [email protected] for more information.

First library checkout of the new school year!

We have a new friend in the library who can’t wait to meet you!

Happy birthday to our awesome library assistant Tatum! 🥳

Setting up an eWallet for your student makes shopping at the Book Fair easier! Visit our school's Book Fair homepage to get started: https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/ohioschoolfordeaf

The Scholastic Book Fair is open in the library 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. through this Friday, April 28. You can also shop the online fair at https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/ohioschoolfordeaf. Happy reading!

Here's a fun thing: There is now a Chrome extension that provides ASL Interpreting for movies on DisneyPlus and Netflix. It's called "SignUp Captions" and it's free. The interpreters are Deaf actors/entertainers. They are constantly expanding their library and you can even request a movie that isn't there yet. There are about 60 movies available so far, including Coco, The Incredibles, Black Panther, Frozen, Up, Zootopia, and more.
Here's a link to their page on the chrome web store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/signup-sign-language-for/gbllbjbhbafgdcolenjhdoabdjjbjoom
Enjoy!

Happy Birthday to our Dear Librarian! Nancy Boone!! 🎂 🎈

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In celebrating the Women's History Month - let's honor Dorothy S. Casterline.

Dorothy S. Casterline - Linguist, Writer and Teacher and Pioneer of ASL

Dorothy Sueoka Casterline - a Deaf Asian woman from Honolulu, Hawaii, graduated from Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind, then enrolled Gallaudet University, received Bachelor's in English (1958). She was known for pioneering in the field of American Sign Language. She was recruited by William C. Stokoe in 1957 and began to study Deaf people using Sign Language in the research laboratory with Deaf colleague, Carl G. Croneberg. She typed many letters for William C. Stokoe from 1957-1964. She had a sharp eye for details and she transcribed the signs. She's also a writer of the publication of the history-making "A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles" in 1965 with Carl G. Croneberg and William C. Stokoe. The dictionary was the book that grabbed people's attention and flared a growing interest in ASL.
Stokoe, W., Casterline, D., & Croneberg, C. (1965). A dictionary of American sign language on linguistic principles. Gallaudet Press.
Gallaudet Tower Clock Yearbooks, (1957, 1958) & Gallaudet University Archives
DST 402: Deaf Women's Studies - Carey M. Ballard

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To celebrate International Women’s Day today, and Women History Month, we wanted to shine the spotlight on a remarkable woman who is an agent of change in the Deaf community: our very own muse, Melissa “Mez” Malzkuhn!

Melissa has many layers: she is a tireless advocate, lifelong learner, a wife, a mom of two young children, an artist, a small business owner… and a fearless leader charging in uncharted territory, paving the way with courage and kindness. She is descended from a long line of talented Deaf storytellers and sign language advocates. Her grandfather Eric “Malz” Malzkuhn was the first Deaf person to sign the ‘Jabberwocky’ professionally.

Melissa grew up surrounded by Deaf role models and had total immersion in bilingualism (American Sign Language and written English) from birth. Melissa’s upbringing nurtured the guiding principles of her community activism: the way she grew up is an exception, but it shouldn’t have to be. Instead of a tiny portion of Deaf children worldwide receiving access to language, it should be every single Deaf child. Ending language deprivation worldwide is something Melissa strongly believes in and strives to do with every fiber of her being.

Melissa is the founder and director of Motion Light Lab (we may be teensy bit biased, but it is an extraordinary space!) In fact, she was one of the four original founding members of Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) at Gallaudet University, along with Dr. Laura-Ann Pettito, Dr. Tom Allen, and Dr. Melissa Herzig.

Melissa’s visionary ways propel growth in our Deaf community both locally and internationally. She pushes for sign language rights for Deaf people all over the world in a variety of ways: creating opportunities for Deaf representation, skillset building, and resource sharing.

She presents at conferences that cater to global audiences such as TedX, Crip the Metaverse, and World Federation of the Deaf about sign language accessibility and technology. She spearheads an initiative called CoLabs with the aim of creating bilingual storybooks for all ages. CoLabs has worked with 10+ countries to date, with more in the wings.

The library has lots of fun books to read, but we also have plenty of choices if you want to learn something new!

Here’s to a great new year!

Happy Holidays!

All I Want for Christmas Is You - ASL by Ikia High school student Ikia translated and signed "All I Want for Christmas" by Mariah Carey.The use of this song is for educational purposes and disability acc...

Are you up for a challenge?

Our Winter Reading Challenge starts this week! You can earn prizes just by reading through the holidays. Pick up a gameboard on Dec. 1 and join in on the fun! ⛄