[Promotion-technology] Senate Hearing on Funding for NLS Digital Conversion

[David Andrews]

From: Laney, Ann-Marie

Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:45 PM


		Subject: Hearing for Digital Talking Book Program--April 30, 2008

Hello:  The Senate Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations will be

having a hearing next Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 3:30 p.m. in room 138 of

the Dirksen Senate Office Building.  Full funding for the Digital Talking

Book Program of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically

Handicapped of the Library of Congress will be discussed.

We would like to have a strong Federationist presence at the hearing and are

enlisting your help to recruit attendees.  It is important that we

demonstrate through our presence that this program is critical for the blind

of the nation.

Please note that there is a possibility that the time of the hearing may

change;

Thanks in advance,

Ann-Marie Laney, Director

Strategic Initiatives Operations

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

1800 Johnson Street

Baltimore, Maryland  21230

410-659-9314, ext. 2219

410-685-5653 (fax)

alaney at nfb.org (email)