The Disability Resource Library

What is the Disability Resource Library?

The Disability Resource Library (http://www.deaflibrary.org/disability) is a new section of the Deaf Resource Library.

The Disability Library is still very small; so please send in your contributions to myself, Karen Nakamura ( ).

Please note that since my main field of research are the Deaf communities, and since the U.S. Deaf community largely rejects a view of themselves as part of the disability community, I am sadly ignorant of many disability issues. So asking me questions about the disability communities is a pretty bad idea. What I do know is listed below, so please follow links to other resources if possible.

Who am I?

The Deaf Resource Library and Disability Resource LIbrary are maintained by Karen Nakamura, a doctoral PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. I'm studying Deaf culture, history, and political/social movements in Japan and the United States (or so my advisors think). Please visit my home page at http://pantheon.yale.edu/~nakamura/.

Disability Bibliographies

These bibliographies were mainly for my own research purposes. I haven't been updating them too often (it's hard to recode them in HTML).

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Disability Community Resources

• Magazines & Newsletters

Disability related network resources

Quickie Index

• National Disability Organizations
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (links to DeafLibrary)

• World: Disabled Persons International (DPI) -- main international disability umbrella org
• Singapore: The Disabled People's Association of Singapore

Please send any comments or thoughts to: . Please note that due to the fact that I currently conducting my fieldwork in Japan, I am unable to respond personally to questions asked about Deaf culture/society. You'll get an auto-reply back when you send me e-mail, you might want to read it here first!

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accesses since November 5th, 1997. since November 5th, 1997. This page last updated on October 27th, 1997.

The Deaf Resource Library is a winner of the Deaf Watch Gold Award.