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New state-of-the-art education, therapy and care facilities are now available at RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning as part of a major redevelopment.
Get the new school year off to a flying start with RNIB's free giant print books for blind and partially sighted children.
We have teamed up with audio book publishers AudioGO (home of BBC audiobooks) to offer you a fantastic opportunity to win an audio book of your choice worth up to £25 throughout 2012. Most titles are available in both CD and download format.
Published: 3 September 2012 The change is all about shuffling the channels to make room in the listing for more channles of different genres.
RNIB will be submitting a response to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and is requesting user feedback on the accessibility of audio description and accessible digital radio and television equipment.
Sadly Maeve Binchy died last month aged 72. She's best known for her humorous take on small-town life in Ireland, her descriptive characters, her interest in human nature and her often clever surprise endings.
The 12 books were chosen by a panel of judges chaired by Sir Peter Stothard, Editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
Share your opinions in our survey. This is your chance to influence the development of a proposed new RNIB service that would provide Talking Books for download.
Published: 4 August 2012 Starting this week, audio description will be available on selected programmes on 4oD.
Nominations for books to be given out for free at next year's World Book Night has started.
What would you like to see in the library? We are always happy to hear which books our readers would like to see us add to the library. Because of limited resources we can't promise that it will get chosen, but all requests are considered.
This year's winner of the prestigious Carnegie medal, for the second year running, was Patrick Ness for his haunting novel A monster calls
Last month we mentioned the shortlist for the Dagger in the library ward, the winner was Steve Mosby author, amongst others, of Still Bleeding TB 17642 and Black Flowers soon to be available as a talking book.
We will be attending Sight North East in Newcastle on Wednesday 12 September, 10am to 4pm, at St. James' Park Football Stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne city centre.
Contact: webeditor@rnib.org.uk
Last updated: 11 July 2012
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