----- Original Message -----
From: Norris, Scott (LARA)
To: BSBP Staff
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2019 2:39 PM
Subject: May 11 BTBL Technology/Book Club
Good Afternoon All,
Saturday, May 11 Technology Club is back with two presentations. Pat Love,
coordinator of the Michigan Department of Education Low Incidence Outreach
(MDE-LIO)
Technology Team will give us her impressions of the 2019 CSUN conference. CSUN
is
one of the largest assistive technology conferences in the country. It took
place
March 11-15 in Anaheim, California.
Scott Norris will demonstrate the Braillenote Touch. The Braillenote Touch is
a
multifunction note taker that runs on the Android operating system. You can use
the
Touch with the braille key keyboard or the touch screen. The You access output
from
the Touch via voice or the refreshable braille display. The Touch offers word
processing, e-mail, Internet access, and more.
Technology Club meets from 10:30-12:30 in the BTBL public service area on the
first
floor of the Library of Michigan across from the elevators.
If you're interested in staying for lunch from 12:30-1:30 we order out from one
of
the local sub shops.
One hour after the BTBL Technology Club ends the BTBL Book Club meets from
1:30-3:00.
We meet in the BTBL public service area located on the first floor
of the Library of Michigan across from the elevators.
May11's book is DB92627 Becoming by Michelle Obama.
A memoir by The former First Lady, the first African American in that role.
Obama
recounts her childhood in Chicago, her years balancing motherhood and her
career as
an executive, and her eight years in the White House. Some strong language.
Best
seller. 2018.
June 15's book is DB90188 Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover.
Memoir exploring the author's path from being raised in a fundamentalist,
paranoiac
Mormon family where she was homeschooled to eventually working her way to
graduate
degrees at Cambridge and Harvard. Discusses hardships faced by the family,
abuse at
the hands of a sibling, and more. 2018.
If you are unable to join us in Lansing you can join us by calling in by phone.
The
call-in number is 1-888-278-0296 and the access code is 5836578. Alternatively
you
can join us in our Zoom meeting room. Click on the link below and you will be
taken
to the meeting room. You need a computer with speakers and a microphone to
participate.
https://zoom.us/j/695748623
If you have further questions contact Scott Norris at the information listed
below
between 7:30-5:00 Monday-Thursday and 7:30-11:30 Friday.
See you at the computer and book club,
Scott
Scott J. Norris
Adaptive Technology Librarian
BARD Administrator
BSBP
Braille and Talking Book Library
702 W Kalamazoo St
PO Box 3007
Lansing, MI 48909
V: 517-284-2871
F: 517-284-2885
www.michigan.gov/btbl
