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<b>Press Release<br>
October 2013<br>
For Immediate Release<br>
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CONTACT: Frances Mary D’Andrea, Chair<br>
Braille Authority of North America<br>
Phone: 412-521-5797<br>
Email:
<a href="mailto:literacy2@mindspring.com">literacy2@mindspring.com</a><br>
<div align="center"><b>BANA to Hold Fall Board Meeting in Louisville,
KY<br>
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The Braille Authority of North America (BANA), which meets face-to-face
semiannually, will hold its 2013 fall meeting November 810 in
Louisville, KY. This meeting will be hosted by the American Printing
House for the Blind (APH), a BANA member organization. Meetings on
Friday, November 8, will take place at APH, which is located at 1839
Frankfort Avenue. Meetings on November 9 and 10, including an Open Forum
to which the community is invited, will be held at the Hyatt Regency
Louisville, located at 311 South Fourth Street.<br>
As always, interested parties are invited to observe the BANA Board
meetings. Items on the Board’s agenda include reports from all of BANA's
technical committees such as music, math, foreign language, and tactile
graphics. In-depth reports will be presented by the Unified English
Braille (UEB) Task Force, the Publications Committee, and the Braille
Research Committee. If you are interested in observing the BANA meeting,
please contact BANA Chair Frances Mary D’Andrea at 412-521-5797 or by
email at
<a href="mailto:literacy2@mindspring.com">literacy2@mindspring.com</a>.
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Saturday morning, November 9, from 10:00 till 11:30, BANA will host an
Open Forum that provides a venue for participants to discuss braille with
the Board and to learn more about the workings of BANA. Members of the
BANA Board will share the evolving plans for the transition to UEB and
will report on the UEB Transition Forum being held in October. Open Forum
participants are encouraged to discuss their views and suggestions
surrounding braille and its future. Braille readers, teachers, and
students as well as producers and distributors of braille are encouraged
to take advantage of this opportunity to participate in a round-table
discussion with the members of the BANA Board. The Open Forum will be
held in the Gulfstream room at the Hyatt Regency Louisville. To reserve
your space at the Open Forum and to ensure accurate counts for handouts,
contact Frances Mary D’Andrea as indicated above.<br>
NOTE: This press release is available in HTML on the BANA website at
<a href="http://www.brailleauthority.org/pressreleases/pr-2013-10-12.html">
http://www.brailleauthority.org/pressreleases/pr-2013-10-12.html</a>.<br>
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For additional resource information, visit
<a href="http://www.brailleauthority.org">www.brailleauthority.org</a><br>
<i>The Board of BANA consists of appointed representatives from seventeen
member organizations of braille producers, transcribers, teachers, and
consumers.<br>
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. <br>
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The purpose of BANA is to promote and to facilitate the uses, teaching,
and production of braille. Pursuant to this purpose, BANA will promulgate
rules, make interpretations, and render opinions pertaining to braille
codes and guidelines for the<b> </b>provisions of literary and technical
materials and related forms and formats of embossed materials now in
existence or to be developed in the future for the use of blind persons
in North America. When appropriate, BANA shall accomplish these
activities<b> </b>in international collaboration with countries using
English braille. In exercising its function and authority, BANA shall
consider the effects of its decisions on other existing braille codes and
guidelines, forms and formats; ease of production by various methods; and
acceptability to readers.<br>
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