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The topic for the Thursday, August 14, 2025, Many Faces of BARD program will be BARD Platform Updates: A Brief Look at All of the BARD Platforms and What Is on the Horizon.

The program will begin with a presentation, followed by questions about the presentation or anything else relating to BARD.

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The Tuesday, July 29, That All May eRead online program will be an open forum. We will answer your questions about the Zoomax and HumanWare Braille eReaders for the entire hour.

The program will begin at 7 p.m. eastern time and will last for one hour.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 6:00pm - 7:30 pm EDT New York Public Library, in collaboration with the NYU Center for Disability Studies.

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July 19th, 2-3:30 pm. Learn techniques for drawing raised lines: you don’t need vision to learn to draw! We’ll explore different kinds of drawing exercise each time we meet.

This month’s prompt: ‎

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Chancey Fleet Assistive Tech Coordinator, Technology Programs at Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library

Tuesday, July 22, 2-3:30 PM Eastern 

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The topic for the Thursday, July 17, 2025, Smart Speaking to the Smart Speaker online program will be My Talking Books Skill Preferences, Part 2.

The first part of the Preferences program was held in May. After the presentation and demonstration, we will answer any questions you have about th

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