[Blindtlk] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Spring Meeting Announcement for Cincinnati, Ohio

[David Andrews]

>Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:52:58 -0400
>From: <Kim.Charlson at Perkins.org>
>To: <BANA-Announce at brailleauthority.org>
>Subject: [BANA-Announce] BANA Spring Meeting 
>Announcement for Cincinnati,       Ohio
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>Press Release
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>March 2011
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>For Immediate Release
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>CONTACT: Judy Dixon, Chair
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>Braille Authority of North America
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>Phone: 202-707-0722, Email: jdix at loc.gov
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>BANA Invites Guests to Spring Board Meeting in Cincinnati
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>The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) 
>will hold its spring meeting on April 1 – 3, 
>2011, in Cincinnati, Ohio. This meeting is 
>hosted by The Clovernook Center for the Blind 
>and Visually Impaired (CCBVI), a BANA member 
>organization. Meetings will take place at 
>Clovernook on Friday and at the Hyatt Regency 
>Cincinnati on Saturday and Sunday. The Hyatt 
>Regency is located at 151 West 5th Street. The 
>Clovernook Center’s location is 7000 Hamilton Avenue.
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>BANA will hold an Open Forum on Thursday, March 
>31, at 6:00 P.M. at the Hyatt Regency. This 
>forum provides an opportunity for participants 
>to learn more about the workings of BANA and to 
>provide feedback to the Board about braille. 
>BANA Board members want to hear participants’ 
>views about issues surrounding braille and its 
>future. Braille readers, teachers, and producers 
>of braille are encouraged to take advantage of 
>this opportunity to participate in a round-table 
>discussion and to engage in a dialogue with the 
>members of the BANA Board.  To reserve your 
>space at the Open Forum and to help ensure 
>accurate counts for handouts, contact Judy Dixon 
>at 202-707-0722 or jdix at loc.gov.
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>Guests are invited to attend the BANA Board 
>meetings and observe the deliberations. Items on 
>the Board’s agenda include discussions of 
>tactile graphics, foreign language braille, and 
>the recent review of the formats guidelines. The 
>Chair of the United Kingdom Association for 
>Accessible Formats (UKAAF), Pete Osborne, will 
>also be in attendance and will provide an 
>international perspective. Space is limited.  To 
>reserve a seat, please contact BANA Chair Judy Dixon.
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>For additional resource information, visit 
><http://www.brailleauthority.org/>www.brailleauthority.org
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>The mission and purpose of the Braille Authority 
>of North America are to assure literacy for 
>tactile readers through the standardization of 
>braille and/or tactile graphics. BANA promotes 
>and facilitates the use, teaching, and 
>production of braille. It publishes rules, 
>interprets, and renders opinions pertaining to 
>braille in all existing codes. It deals with 
>codes now in existence or to be developed in the 
>future, in collaboration with other countries 
>using English braille. In exercising its 
>function and authority, BANA considers the 
>effects of its decisions on other existing 
>braille codes and formats; the ease of 
>production by various methods; and acceptability to readers.
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