[Blindtlk] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Hosts Music Braille Telephone Conference and Announces Spring Meeting

[David Andrews]

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>BANA Press Release
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>February 2017
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>For Immediate Release
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>Contact: Jennifer Dunnam, Chair
>Braille Authority of North America
>612-767-5658
><mailto:chair at brailleauthority.org>chair at brailleauthority.org
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>BANA Hosts Music Braille Telephone Conference and Announces Spring Meeting
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>The Braille Authority of North America (BANA), 
>which meets face-to-face semiannually, will hold 
>its 2017 spring meeting March 12–14 in San 
>Francisco, California at the San Francisco 
>Airport Marriott Hotel, 1800 Old Bayshore 
>Highway, Burlingame, CA 94010. This meeting will 
>be hosted by the California Transcribers and 
>Educators of the Blind and Visually Impaired 
>(CTEBVI) and will immediately follow CTEBVI's 58th annual conference.
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>Items on the Board’s agenda include updates of 
>BANA’s numerous ongoing projects and 
>publications. The Board will review formal 
>reports from all of BANA’s technical 
>committees such as music, math, foreign 
>language, and tactile graphics and will take 
>action on recommendations when appropriate.
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>BANA regretfully acknowledges the retirement of 
>Ruth Rozen both from the Hadley Institute for 
>the Blind and from the BANA Board. However, BANA 
>is pleased to welcome newly appointed Hadley 
>Institute representative Vivian Seki to BANA Board membership.
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>On January 17, 2017, BANA hosted a 
>multi-participant telephone conference that 
>focused on the 2015 revision of the Music 
>Braille Code (MBC). Dan Geminder, Chair of 
>BANA's Music Braille Committee, presented 
>salient code revisions to the more than 20 
>callers. Together with Music Braille Committee 
>members, Geminder then conducted a lively 
>exchange of MBC questions and answers.
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>As always, interested parties are invited to 
>observe BANA board meetings. If you are 
>interested in observing the BANA meeting, please 
>contact BANA Chair Jennifer Dunnam at 
>612-767-5658 or by email at 
><mailto:chair at brailleauthority.org>chair at brailleauthority.org.
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>The mission of the Braille Authority of North 
>America is to assure literacy for tactile 
>readers through the standardization of braille and/or tactile graphics.
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