[Nfbmt] Keeping in touch with the NFB

[Breslauers]

Here are several ways to keep in touch with the NFB and what is going on
nationally in our organization.  Then we will know best how to be informed
and involved as individuals, chapters, and state affiliates. 

 

1.   Get The Braille Monitor.  

 

The July edition of the Braille Monitor, the NFB's flagship publication, is
now available to read online. You can go to www.nfb.orgh and look for The
Braille Monitor under publications.  You can also download it to your smart
phone or Victor Reader Stream or other mobile device.  This publication, with
all the latest news about blindness and the NFB, is also available in large
print, Braille, and audio format, as well as via email and on NFB-NEWSLINE.
In this month's issue, read

about a victory for blind parents in Maryland,

as well as an inspiring story about using structured discovery in unfamiliar
places and much, much more.

 

To subscribe, change your format, or change your mailing address, please
contact the NFB by mail; by phone at 410-659-9314, ext. 2344; or by email

nfbpublications at nfb.org.

Please indicate which format you would like to receive: large print
(14-point), Braille, or USB drive.

 

Eleven issues of the Braille Monitor are published each year (August and
September are combined into one issue and cover our annual national
convention). Braille

 

USB Drive (also known as thumb drive or memory stick) Information

 

The digital player provided by the National Library Service has two slots for
playing recorded material. The most familiar one is on the front of the unit.

It accepts the special cartridge used by the Library. The second slot is
found on the right side of the unit near the headphone jack, and, unless you
have

removed it or it has become dislodged, the slot is covered by a protective
rubber pad. Removing this pad reveals an indentation in the unit where the
USB

drive is inserted. It will go into the unit in only one direction, so, if you
encounter resistance, flip the drive over and try inserting it again. The

main cartridge slot used to play books from the Library must be empty before
you insert the memory stick in the right side of the player. If the main slot

has a cartridge in it, the digital player will ignore the USB drive.

 

Once the USB drive has been inserted, the player should function just as it
does when you are reading a book. Pressing the rewind or advance keys moves

back or ahead by five seconds. Pressing the previous element or next element
keys moves from article to article or, in some cases, moves to the next
section

in an article in which divisions are present. If you remove the USB drive to
use the player for other material, when you again insert it, reading should

resume from the place you stopped reading.

 

The USB drive will be every bit as functional as the cassettes we have been
providing. The audio quality should be improved, along with the navigation,

and the drive should last many years. If you think you will want to refer to
an issue again, you are welcome to keep the drive, but, because they cost

more than cassettes and can be used hundreds of times, readers willing to
return the USB drives are requested to use the return address label that will

be sent along with your drive. This will save money that we can use for other
programs.

 

Email Subscriptions

 

If you would like to receive the magazine electronically for free, you may 

sign up online to receive the Braille Monitor by email.

(Please note: This is the only way to sign up to receive the Braille Monitor
by email.)

 

To remove yourself from the electronic distribution list of the Braille
Monitor, send a message containing the line "signoff brl-monitor"--to 

the Monitor subscription tool.

Be sure to send it from the account where you are currently receiving
theBraille Monitor. When the electronic distribution software has removed you
from

the list, it will send you an acknowledgement, confirming that you have
indeed signed off the list.

 

Ordering Back Issues

 

Monthly issues are available to order from January of 1978 to the present in
Braille and in print. Issues from August of 1985 to the present are also
available

on 4-track cassette. 

Visit the Independence Market's Literature listing under Publications for
more information about ordering back issues. 

 

Online Recordings

 

The February 2007 issue of the Braille Monitor marks the beginning of a new
era: in this issue, and those following, the same Braille Monitor recordings

available on cassette or USB drive are now available as MP3 files online.
Follow the online access links to the appropriate issue, and then look for
the MP3 file listed

beside each article in the table of contents. You may also subscribe to
iTunes podcast by searching for National Federation of the Blind or subscribe
to

our rss feed at

https://nfb.org/images/nfb/audio/braille_monitor/bm-rss/rss.xml.

Enjoy!

 

Online Access

 

The entire run of the Braille Monitor from 1957 to 1986 has been scanned by
the Internet Archive and is available in accessible form at 

archive.org.

If you need assistance in accessing these files, contact the tenBroek Library
(

jtblibrary at nfb.org

or 410-659-9314, ext. 2310). Be aware, though, that the Internet Archive does
not proofread the text files, so there will be errors. Jernigan Institute

staff are in the process of proofreading and cleaning up the files produced
by the Internet Archive. As we complete work on each year's files, we will

be mounting them on the Braille Monitor web page. 

 

Every dues paying member of the NFB of Montana should have in their
membership information whether they receive or would like to receive The
Braille Monitor, and in which format.  Every new member should be asked that
question so we have that information on file in our data base.  

 

2.  Monthly Presidential Releases

The July Presidential Release is now out.  It is something that many chapters
play at their meetings.  You can listen to it online, download it as a
podcast to your smart phone or Victor Reader Stream or other mobile device,
or listen to it by calling (443) 341-4234.  

 

With so many ways to receive this information, some of them free, there is no
excuse not to know what is going on and to get involved in a way that
interests you.  Sometimes one person can make a big difference.

 

Joy Breslauer, President

National Federation of the Blind of Montana 

Address: P.O. Box 1325, Great Falls, MT 59403 

Phone: (406) 454-3096

Email: president at nfbofmt.org

Web Site: http://www.nfbofmt.org <http://www.nfbofmt.org/> 

 

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expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
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