[Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: [Md-sligo] FW: [napub] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Announces Fall Meeting in Baltimore

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

Debbie is my chapter leader and she checks braille books for errors, for NLS.
See below.

Terry
 

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From: Brown, Debbie [mailto:dabro at loc.gov] 
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Subject: [Md-sligo] FW: [napub] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Announces Fall Meeting in Baltimore

The Thursday evening meeting would be the best to go to because it is an open meeting.

Debbie


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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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