Volume LI December 2012 No. 4
Published by the American Council of the Blind
The American Council of the Blind strives to increase the independence, security, equality of opportunity, and to improve quality of life for all blind and visually impaired people.
Mitch Pomerantz, President
Melanie Brunson, Executive Director
Sharon Lovering, Editor
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Corrections
Due to an editing error, "economics" was misspelled, and the name "Burson" left out of the name of the scholarship in the article "And the Winner Is …" (October-November 2012).
Due to an editing error, the third "W" was left out of National Braille Press' web site address, and the word "a" was left out of a sentence in "Here and There," October-November 2012.
We regret these errors.
Table of Contents
- The Braille Forum, December 2012 downloads
- In Memoriam: LeRoy Franklin Saunders by Nolan Crabb
- Readers' Memories of LeRoy Saunders
- National Conference/Convention Report, Part III by Mitch Pomerantz
- World Intellectual Property Organization Inches Toward Agreement on Reading Rights for People with Visual Impairments by Melanie Brunson
- Build an Even Better Idea: Promote the Anne Sullivan Macy Act by Mark Richert
- ACB Convention 2013: Discovering the Hyatt by Janet Dickelman
- Comments from the Credentials Committee Chair by Jean Mann
- 'Tis the Season by Kathy Brockman
- Learning Ally Offers Fee Relief for ACB Members
- Membership Committee Announcement
- Affiliate News
- Here and There
- High Tech Swap Shop
- ACB Officers, Board of Directors and Board of Publications
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