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This March, Vision Australia are celebrating 'Seeing Eyes Dogs Australia' (SEDA) . So in the spirit of things we will have Sheila Hocken, author of the well loved 'Emma and I' on our Library Radio show 'Hear This'. Stay turned and let us know of any questions you would love to ask her. In the meantime here is a link to all of Sheila's 'Emma' books available on I-access:
http://i-accessonline.visionaustralia.org/Pages/results.aspx?k=sheila+Hocken&pagesize=25

Did you miss our chat with Miriam Margolyes? Catch up on what you missed as Miriam talks about Dickens, life and her upcoming show for 2015 'The Importance of Being Miriam'

https://soundcloud.com/frances-j-key/1-miriam-margolyes

1 Miriam Margolyes An interview with Miriam Margoyles who discusses her passion for Dickens amongst other things

We were absolutely thrilled to bits to be visited by acclaimed English actress Miriam Margoyles. Miriam met up with Tracey, one of our staunchest library members who read some 'Harry Potter' in Braille to mark the occasion.
After a delightful afternoon tea, Miriam then came up to the Vision Australia Radio studios to chat about her love of Charles Dickens, her work and becoming an Australian citizen.
You can hear this interview on 'Hear This', the Library radio show on January 9th

Our second farewell is to the wonderful staff at the Christian Blind Mission Library (CBM), who have been supplying audio material for nearly 40 years. We know that all of their clients will greatly miss the periodicals and devotionals that CBM made available over these years. Vision Australia Library will continue to provide the Christian talking books in Daisy, so please let us know if you would like to know more about this collection. Pictured are Stephanie, Ross and Phil from the CBM Library. We thank them, we will miss them and they will always be 'Honorary Members' of the Readers Services team

As 2014 draws to a close we have a couple of farewells and best wishes to pass on. Stuart Clifford has been a member of our Reader Services Team for 7 years and leaves us to begin a new chapter of his life moving to Singapore. We wish him, Sharon and the family all the best and thank him for all the humour, courtesy and support he has given us over the years.

'Read Watch Play' are celebrating Movember by discussing book characters who sport a moustache. Hercule Poirot is one proud flourisher of these facial furry fixtures. Read on...
http://readwatchplay.wordpress.com/

Read Watch Play Talking about reading, watching and playing every month

In praise of Braille! Read the winning essays from the Onkyo World Braille Essay Contest.

Onkyo World Braille Essay Contest | European Blind Union The European strand of the Contest was once again run by EBU. The winners were selected from a total of 62 participants from 21 countries. The seven authors of the winning essays receive prizes made available by Onkyo and Braille Mainichi.

Well its Friday and here we are a week into November. Just where has the year gone? One of our Library members came in today with a beautiful bunch of roses handpicked from her garden, which brightened our day considerably. A big thankyou to Leonie and have a great weekend everyone *smile*

Just how did we develop our Daisy online 3G Player? On 'Hear This' we spoke to one of our 'tech mavericks', Ed Gamble about how an idea, a Daisy disc player, some caterpillar clips and lots of coffee turned into 2,000 online players currently being used by our Library members in the comfort of their own homes.
https://soundcloud.com/hear-this-val/ed-gamble-talks-about-the-daisy-online-3g-player

Books to send a shiver down your spine! Whether your taste runs to handsome vampires, veangeful ghosts, zombie apocalypses or wicked witches, we have books in Braille and audio to put goosebumps on your goosebumps and a chill in your thrill...
http://i-accessonline.visionaustralia.org/Pages/results.aspx?k=supernatural&pagesize=25

Australian author Morris Lurie also passed away this month.
Known for his acerbic wit and sharp obversational skills he was an expert at the art of short story writing with his work appearing in 'The New Yorker' and other prestigious Literary journals. We have quite a few of his short story collections in Braille and audio, and also his autobiography 'whole Life' in which he tells of growing up in a Jewish family in Carlton in the 40's.
Here is the list from our catalogue:
http://i-accessonline.visionaustralia.org/Pages/results.aspx?k=morris+lurie&pagesize=25
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