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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#161618;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-ligatures:none">Good Morning,
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#161618;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-ligatures:none">Save the date for the 2024 Libraries Without Walls adaptive technologies conference in Lansing, MI. This conference is offered every 2 years and
generally attracts between 200-300 individuals. We often see a mix of attendees including individuals with low or no vision, caregivers looking for more information, and professionals such as librarians and teachers.
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#161618;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-ligatures:none">Join us for the chance to brush up on accessible technologies, visit with vendors offering various low vision products and services, and see what’s
new! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#161618;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-ligatures:none">Please feel free to post this
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10vdh_RZ8vfkX4vS8NBP0ewK7a8XGeH2-lRkA0NNm8eA/edit?usp=sharing">
flyer</a> in your libraries to promote this program to your patrons and register staff to join us. Registration will open within 1 week so keep a look out for follow-up details. Cost to attend is $15 and includes a boxed lunch. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#161618;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-ligatures:none">We hope to see you there!
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#161618;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-ligatures:none">Libraries Without Walls: Empowering Access, Inspiring Innovation</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#161618;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#353535;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-ligatures:none">When</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#353535;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-ligatures:none">:
Thursday, May 9, 2024</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#353535;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (registration/refreshments start at 8:30 a.m.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#353535;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;mso-ligatures:none">Where</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#353535;mso-ligatures:none">: Lansing Community
College, West Campus<br>
5708 Cornerstone Dr.<br>
Lansing, MI 48917<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#353535;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;mso-ligatures:none">Cost</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#353535;mso-ligatures:none">: $15 (registration
opening soon!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#353535;mso-ligatures:none">Join this program, brought to you by the Bureau of Services for Blind Persons’ Braille and Talking Book Library, to introduce you to various adaptive technologies and help
you gain an understanding of the skills needed to successfully use them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#353535;mso-ligatures:none">Keynote Address: Michael May, Executive Director of the Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#353535;mso-ligatures:none">Breakout sessions to choose from:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Mac computing<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#353535;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;mso-ligatures:none">What’s new in Jaws<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#353535;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Microsoft Narrator with Magnification<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#353535;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;mso-ligatures:none">And more!<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Stephanie Wambaugh, Librarian 12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Team Lead and Outreach Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Michigan Braille and Talking Book Library (BTBL)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Bureau of Services for Blind Persons<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">P.O. Box 30007<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">702 W. Kalamazoo St.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Lansing, MI 48909<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Phone: 1-800-992-9012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Fax: 1-517-284-2885<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:wambaughs@michigan.gov"><span style="color:blue">wambaughs@michigan.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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