[nabs-l] Matilda Ziegler Magazine update

[Roanna Bacchus]

Hi Nabs members hope you are doing well.  This is a message from 
the Matilda Zeigler Magazine for the Blind.

 ---- Original Message ------
From: "Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind" 
<editor at matildaziegler.com
Subject: Matilda Ziegler Magazine
Date sent: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:00:06 +1000

July 25, 2014

As you are aware the Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind has 
been suspended for the past several months pending a review by 
the Board of Directors of The E.  Matilda Ziegler Foundation for 
the Blind.  Considerable time was spent evaluating its substance, 
breadth of distribution, and readers' responses.  With heavy 
heart the directors voted to discontinue the weekly magazine and 
use the Foundation's resources solely for scientific research 
through grants to highly innovative medical researchers who are 
making important advances in vision research.

We've come a long way from when my great grandmother, Electa 
Matilda Ziegler, founded the magazine in 1907 with the goal of 
producing reading material for the blind "as much as possible 
like that published for the seeing." Raised type books of the era 
were expensive, and the freely circulated magazine helped to fill 
an information void.

Today's blind and those with visual impairment can obtain books 
and magazines in Braille, on cassette, and in DVD or CD format 
from the National Library Service and the American Foundation for 
the Blind.  Radio, television, internet, and commercially 
produced audio books have all become accessible, and provide 
resources that could not have been imagined in 1907.

Your emails and letters show that we've touched the lives of 
thousands of blind and vision impaired people.  The Matilda 
Ziegler Magazine for the Blind was once described by Helen Keller 
as a "godsend," and Mark Twain described it as "one of the 
noblest benefactions of his lifetime." We hope to realize a 
medical breakthrough that will be worthy of the same praise.

On behalf of the E.  Matilda Ziegler Foundation Board I sincerely 
thank you for your loyal readership over our many years.

Cynthia Ziegler Brighton
President


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