2006 Winter Newsletter
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Books For Africa... African Heritage
Blindlib endeavors to ensure that our national Audio and Braille book collection remains relevant, and has over the past three years strived to ensure that our African Heritage collection is considered a collection of note!
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Braille for Africa!!– Blindlib embraces African initiative
Early this year Blindlib hosted Mr Kiprotich Juma, Production/Development Manager at the African Braille Centre who had come to learn how to produce digital audio books and other related products from Blindlib.
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Braille Services Looks to Blindlib
Braille Services of Blind SA is one of South Africa’s leading Braille production houses – producing in the region of 3 Million Braille pages each year in all eleven of South Africa’s official languages!!
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Can Blind People Be Dyslexic?
Blindlib CFO and Marketing Manager Wendy Ling recently attended a Learning Disabilities Symposium in New Jersey. Below she shares information about dyslexia.
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The Director’s Communique
I am writing this column for the last time, as I am leaving Blindlib as from June 1 due to family reasons. My daughter, Collette, will from next year be attending a school for the blind in Pretoria. Therefore, my family is relocating to Gauteng so that we could be close to the special school.
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Mdantsane Public Library - A Reality!!
Mdantsane has one Public Library which serves a population of about 170,000 people
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Narrator Needs Your Help
Narrator Aman Bloom is a ‘visiting’ American who considers Grahamstown his home. Having experienced a wide range of pursuits and activities, and being something of an ‘actor’, he feels that his ability as a narrator of novels, especially intellectual novels that often involve technical concepts and complex language, makes him worthy of the activity, and would like to know from you, the listener, if he is achieving the quality and clarity that you have come to expect from the South African Library for the Blind.
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So What is Daisy Anyway?
Blindlib Operations Manager Mike Watermeyer reflects on the significance of Daisy and the positive impact it has on the lives of the blind.
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