Northville District Library recently issued the following announcement.
Today is World Braille Day!
Where do you go to find Braille for a loved one or a friend? There are a few local places:
1. Oakland County Talking Books, at the Rochester Hills Public Library, https://otbs.rhpl.org/ and https://bit.ly/3zqog4y for the form to apply.
2. Wayne County Talking Books, at the Taylor Community Library, https://taylor.lib.mi.us/btb/
3. The Braille and Talking Book Library, Lansing, https://bit.ly/3mUH72E
Did you know...?
The Braille System, method of printing text for the blind, through a system of raised dots embossed in paper by hand or machine and read by touch. Each letter, number, and punctuation mark is indicated by the number and arrangement of one to six dots in a cell, or letter space, two dots wide and three dots high. The characters are embossed from the back of the paper, working in reverse direction, and are read from the face of the paper in normal reading direction.
The blind can transcribe Braille on a slate by using a stylus or on a Braillewriter (which resembles a typewriter) by striking keys. Today, Braille is also producible by computers.
The system, still widely used today, was devised in the 1820s by Louis Braille, himself a blind person. He developed it from an earlier system invented for Napoleon Bonaparte, to allow coded silent communication among soldiers at night without the use of light that could alert the enemy. Musical notation also can be transcribed into Braille. (Quoted directly from Explora, a NDL eResource)
Rochester Hills Public Library Michigan Braille and Talking Book Library
Original source can be found here.
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