Australian Braille Book of the Year Award
Vision Australia is proud to announce the re-establishment of the prestigious Australian Braille Book of the Year Award.
You can vote as many times as you like and with 80 Miles Franklin award winners in braille to choose from, you may have troubling narrowing down your top five or top ten favourites!
Thanks to our sponsor, Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), we have produced 80 adult Australian titles in braille which are available to be borrowed from Vision Australia Information Library Service's general collection.
The Australian Braille Book of the Year Award aims to:
- Encourage and develop braille literacy amongst people with a print disability
- Promote understanding of alternative format needs within the Australian publishing industry, and
- Increase dissemination of Australian content by transcribing Australian literature into formats accessible to people with a print disability, and encouraging the reading of these.
All braille users registered with the library service are encouraged to vote for one of the 80 titles in the running. The winning book will be the one with the highest number of votes, culminating in an awards event next year.
If you would prefer the list in braille, please contact the library on 1300 654 656 or email library@visionaustralia.org to request a copy.
How to vote
Vote as many times as you like! There are three ways to vote:
- Vote online - Australian Braille Book of the Year Voting Form
- Email the library library@visionaustralia.org
- Call the library on 1300 654 656
Voting closes on 31 March 2010.