Research Library and Archives Newsletter : September 2017

Welcome! This issue of the Research Library and Archives newsletter has some good info about what we can do for you, the early history of guide dogs, and details about displays and new books. From the Research Library: Welcome back! It’s a new school year, so it’s also time for a reminder about what the Research Library and Archives can do for you. To help you out, we’ve created a new page on AskHowe that explains the different services we offer and resources we want to share with you.

Check out the page for more about:  Borrowing books

 Requesting books

 Research and reference help

 Finding out about Perkins history

 Materials available in the Archives and online

 How to get in touch and answers to some common questions.

Have something not covered there? Please ask us. From The Archives: Early Depictions of “Guide Dogs”

Explore our digitized collection of art depicting the blind and featuring dogs as companions and guide or "seeing eye" dogs. Many of the early depictions show individuals with small, leashed dogs using a walking staff, indicating that they cannot rely fully on the dog to guide them. Research Library Display September is National Guide Dog Month. Stop by the library this week to see our display.

 Morris and Buddy: the Story of the First Seeing Eye Dog by Becky Hall

 Every Step Forward: Personal Accounts of the Unique Partnerships Between Blind People and their Seeing Eye Dogs by Rosemary Carroll

 Maggie By My Side by Beverly Butler

 Love In the Lead: The Fifty-Year Miracle of the Seeing Eye Dog by Peter Brock Putnam

 The Two In One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness by Rod Michalko

 The Seeing Eye by Steve Swanbeck

 Harnessing Thought: The Guide Dog, A Thinking Animal with a Skilful[sic] Mind by Bruce Johnston

Our October display will focus on international experiences of blindness.

 One of the Lucky Ones by Lucy Ching  The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan by Gerald Groemer

 Early Intervention Practices Around the World by Samuel L. Odom, et al

 Global Vision: How Perkins International is Transforming Blindness Education Around the World by Perkins International

 Colour Blind: Sightless in South Africa, a memoir by John C T Miller

 A Better India A Better World by NR Narayana Murthy

 Issues of The Educator will also be on display New Titles in the Research Library Lots of new titles relating to UEB came out over the summer, and we have some additional titles arriving soon. These titles can currently be found on our new books shelf unless noted.

 The Braille Enthusiast's Dictionary: UEB Edition. Compiled and edited by M. Cay Holbrook and Frances Mary D'Andrea. An updated dictionary for UEB. Does not circulate, but can be found on our reference shelves at REF 411.03 Hol. (Grade 2 version is still on the shelf at REF 411.03 Koe)

 Evolution’s Witness: How Eyes Evolved by Ivan R. Schwab (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). “In this spectacular, highly illustrated, full color book, Ivan Schwab traces the evolution of this early photoreception to the formation and elaboration of the eye.” Call #: 612.84 Sch.

 Getting Ready for Braille : Hands-On Activities Based on a Developmental Sequence by Mary McCarthy and Nathalie de Wit (Watertown, MA: Perkins School for the Blind, 2017). Skills checklists and activities for teaching braille. Call # 411.07 McC.

 Live to the Truth: The Life and Times of Cyrus Peirce, Crusader for American Public Education, Founder of the First Public Teacher Training School in the Nation by Barbara Ann White (San Bernadino, CA: Barbara Ann White, 2014). Peirce was a contemporary of Samuel Gridley Howe, Horace Mann, and other educational reformers and abolitionists. Call #: B Peirce White

 My Song, My Delight: Selected Poems of Robert J. Smithdas. Edited by David Goldstein. (Elmwood Park, NJ: G&H Solo, Inc., 2017). Robert J. Smithdas was highly respected as a poet and advocate, and he was also a deafblind alum of Perkins. He died in 2014, and you can read more about his life in an obituary at NCDB. Call # : 081.1 Gol  The Untold Story of the Talking Book by Matthew Rubery. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016). Recounts the 150 years history of audio-recorded literature, focusing on the social impact of recorded books. Call #: 002.9 Rub Back in October! Our next newsletter will be in late October. As always, please stop by or contact the Research Library and Archives if we can help you! You can reach the Research Librarian, Jennifer Arnott, at extension 7541 or [email protected].