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The Winter 2016-17 NBA Bulletin (Vol. 52, No. 4) is now officially available for current NBA Members to download right from the Member’s Section of our website. Once you’re logged in, navigate to the Member’s Section using the link at the very top of your screen. Both PDF and BRF files are available to download right now! For those of you who receive them, the braille, print and disc editions of the Bulletin are all in the mail and should arrive at your doorsteps within coming weeks. Remember: even if you receive any hardcopy form of the Bulletin, as a current member,…
Read MoreFor over 70 years, the National Braille Association has been guided by a volunteer Board of Directors. It is now time to nominate individuals to fill the upcoming board vacancies that will be available in the Fall of 2017. Those selected to serve in the officer and director positions listed below will be installed at NBA’s Professional Development Conference in October, in Orlando, Florida. We encourage all members of NBA to become involved in this nominating process by submitting the names of individuals for director positions and by selecting current directors to serve in officer positions. NBA is seeking nominations for the…
Read MoreEver find yourself wondering how to handle unique page numbering situations? Led by the chair of NBA’s Braille Formats/Textbook Committee, our first webinar of 2017 is designed to help you determine how best to transcribe page numbers. Just like our recent programs, January’s webinar is free to anyone who is interested! TITLE: Print Page Numbers DESCRIPTION: This webinar will look at print page numbers. We will discuss combined pages (when to combine and when not to), alphabetic page numbers, pages without print page numbers and page numbers with alpha-numeric numbers. PRESENTER: Cindi Laurent, Chair, Braille Formats/Textbook Committee DATE: Friday, January 27, 2017 TIME:…
Read MorePlease note: This post was first published yesterday but has been updated. This webinar will last approximately fifteen minutes. We are excited to continue our webinar offerings with the next training focused on the newest version of Braille2000 to take place on Friday, December 2, 2016. This fifteen-minute webinar is free to anyone who is interested in learning more about some of the new features in Version 2 and how to apply them to your work. Description: In this webinar, we will look at some time saving features of Braille 2000 version 2. You will learn a quick way to do contents…
Read MoreThe Braille Formats code, Principles of Print to Braille Transcription, 2011, has been used to transcribe educational textbooks for nearly six years. NBA is proud to be the only source in the United States for a transcriber to receive a certification in textbook formatting, and we’ve certified quite a few of you in recent years. Much like every braille transcription code there is a fresh, new update coming to Formats. In preparation for the new code, we will be temporarily suspending our offering of both study materials and the exam. Our staff and committees need time to review and learn…
Read MoreThe Fall 2016 NBA Bulletin (Vol. 52, No. 3) is now officially available for current NBA Members to download right from the Member’s Section of our website. Once you’re logged in, navigate to the Member’s Section using the link at the very top of your screen. Both PDF and BRF files are available to download right now! For those of you who receive them, the braille, print and disc editions of the Bulletin are all in the mail and should arrive at your doorsteps within coming weeks. Remember: even if you receive any hardcopy form of the Bulletin, as a current member,…
Read MoreOne of the features of the 2016 NBA Fall Professional Development Conference in St. Louis this October will be our Exhibit Hall. Vendors representing companies that serve many different products and services that are of interest to braille transcribers will be on site to greet and interact with conference attendees. Professionals who attend our conferences often find that the Exhibit Hall provides them a unique opportunity for interacting directly with representatives of their favorite companies. Additionally, the Exhibit Hall provides an opportunity for companies to showcase their current products and services as well as share ideas about upcoming products. If…
Read MoreFor those of you who are regulars at the National Braille Association Professional Development Conferences, you know that each Spring we have a Silent Auction. Now that we’ve made the changeover to having only a Fall conference, the 2016 Silent Auction will be taking place in St. Louis. The Silent Auction provides an opportunity for NBA to host a fundraiser that is always a success for everyone. There is usually one or two items that are hotly contested (remember the braille cups in North Gaithersburg??), and as a result, there is often a buzz amongst the conference about who is winning…
Read MoreThe Summer 2016 NBA Bulletin (Vol. 52, No. 2) is now officially available for current NBA Members to download right from the Member’s Section of our website. Once you’re logged in, navigate to the Member’s Section using the link at the very top of your screen. Both PDF and BRF files are available to download right now! For those of you who receive them, the braille, print and disc editions of the Bulletin are all in the mail and should arrive at your doorsteps within coming weeks. Remember: even if you receive any hardcopy form of the Bulletin, as a current…
Read MoreThe National Braille Association is thankful for the countless men and women who have dedicated their lives to ensuring that individuals who are blind receive high quality braille. In 2011, we began to honor these individuals by presenting them with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Each year, one individual is selected to receive the NBA Lifetime Achievement Award. For 2016, the selected recipient will receive his or her award at our 2016 Fall Professional Development Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. The awardee is selected by the NBA Board of Directors, after a careful review of submitted nominations. If you would like to nominate someone for this year’s award,…
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