{"id":441,"date":"2009-11-16T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/?p=441"},"modified":"2009-11-17T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T16:54:59","slug":"louis-braille-digital-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Louis Braille Digital Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"none;\"><span style=\"Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"none;\"><span style=\"Tahoma;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/myloc\/gov\/Exhibitions\/braille\/Pages\/Default.aspx\">Louis Braille: His Legacy and Influence\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0is a compelling digital exhibit that pays homage to the life and work of Louis Braille<\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">, the inventor of the tactile six-dot reading and writing <\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">system which changed the way that blind people were able to understand <\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">and contribute to the world. The exhibit was created by the Library of <\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">Congress, and it complements an in situ exhibit at the Library&#8217;s James <\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">Madison<\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\"> Building<\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">. Clicking on the &#8220;Exhibition Items&#8221; will bring up two <\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">dozen items from the exhibit. There&#8217;s quite a trove here, including a <\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">historic image of the Library of Congress&#8217;s Reading Room for the Blind <\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">from 1902 and a tactile map of the District&#8217;s Metrorail system. Many of <\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">the documents also have extra interactive features that allow users to <\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">zoom in and out around each dot, image, or corner. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"none;\"><span style=\"Tahoma;\">The above information comes from\u00a0<span style=\"Tahoma;\">Bill Graczyk, <\/span><span style=\"Tahoma;\">Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library. The words in this posting, Louis Braille, His Legacy and Influence,\u00a0\u00a0have a link to another webpage.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Louis Braille: His Legacy and Influence\u00a0\u00a0is a compelling digital exhibit that pays homage to the life and work of Louis Braille, the inventor of the tactile six-dot reading and writing system which changed the way that blind people were able to understand and contribute to the world. The exhibit was created by the Library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-programs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}