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[David Andrews]

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>Press Release
>September 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 Fall Board Meeting in Baltimore
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>The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) 
>will hold its second semiannual meeting on 
>November 3–6, 2011, in Baltimore, MD.  This 
>meeting is hosted by the National Federation of 
>the Blind (NFB), a BANA member organization. 
>Meetings on November 4 and 5 will take place at 
>the NFB headquarters on Friday and Saturday. The 
>NFB headquarters is located at 200 East Wells 
>Street. BANA’s final session will be held Sunday 
>morning, ending at noon, at the Baltimore - 
>Inner Harbor Holiday Inn. The hotel is located at 301 W. Lombard Street.
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>BANA will host an Open Forum on Thursday, 
>November 3, at 6:00 P.M. at the NFB 
>headquarters. 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 to observe the deliberations. Items 
>on the Board’s agenda include reports from all 
>of BANA's committees as well as from September’s 
>World Congress Braille21 conference in Leipzig, 
>Germany. Discussions will include the revision 
>of the formats guidelines publication and the 
>guidelines for knit and crochet, which have been 
>submitted for approval. 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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