2005 Summer Newsletter
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Blindlib Embraces DAISY Technology
According to Audio Book Production Senior Technician Melton Kivitts, throughout the world libraries serving individuals who are blind or print disabled are changing their technological platform from analogue to digital audio.
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Blindlib introduces Interlibrary loans
Did you know that Blindlib has access to more books than those in its collection?
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Blindlib offers a user-oriented service
CHIEF Librarian Sheila Eichhoff emphasises that the most important factor in the lives of Blindlib staff is “service to our readers”. “Everything is geared to their benefit, their interests and keeping them happy and, we hate it when things go wrong,” she says.
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Blindlib produces new titles promptly
Blindlib really does try to make a new title available to the readers as soon as we can, says Chief Librarian Sheila Eichhoff.
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BlindLib Get Published
Botha, Jaco has written two and edited one. They are contemporary in content, and in Afrikaans.
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Blindlib Staff in Sporting Action
It is that time of the year again when various companies and institutions get together to compete in the Night Bowls events at the Albany Bowling Club. There is one team that has become a household name in bowling circles, namely Blindlib.
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Did You Know
Blindlib has 20 active Studio Narrators who come to read books in our studios regularly. In addition to that, Blindlib also has 8 active Home Narrators who read books in the privacy of their homes.
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Directors Communique
IN 1918 the South African Library for the Blind was conceived as a charitable project. Today it is partly state-funded. It began with about 100 Braille pamphlets. Today it stocks in excess of 25 000 titles in both Braille and audio formats, and the audio formats have migrated a few times already. We are, in fact, still migrating, this time to digital recordings.
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Blindlib Welcomes New Staff
Busisiwe Precious Lungile Joined Blindlib as a librarian at the beginning of October 2005. She was born in Stanger in Kwa-ZuluNatal, where she did her schooling up to Grade 10.
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The spirit of "Masifunde Sonke"
The spirit of "Masifunde Sonke" was invoked recently when Blindlib awarded computer workstations to learners and a collection of books to various schools from across the country.
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Volunteers be aware of changes…..
Blindlib Volunteer Co-Ordinator Karen Marechal says,“this year has been a year of big changes in the Audio and Braille production sections”. Mrs Marechal would like to inform the volunteers of this new look newsletter which will not only go out to the volunteers, but will be sent out to the general public.
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Paying Tribute to World Braille Day
On January 4, 2006 blind people all over the world will celebrate World Braille Day. “Not only do they celebrate the birth of Louis Braille, designer of the six-dot code, but they celebrate his rich legacy of freedom,” says Braille Consultant Pasha Alden.
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