Resolutions
2010-01
WHEREAS, since 1994, the National Federation of the Blind has operated NFB-NEWSLINE®, a service that gives blind and non-print readers access to local newspapers at the same time as their sighted peers, which in Oregon include the Associated Press Oregon, the Register-Guard, the Oregonian, and the Statesman Journal; and
WHEREAS, NFB-NEWSLINE® has provided blind and non-print readers access to a wide variety of national newspapers as well as a variety of magazines covering issues of concern and topics of interest to Oregon's blind; and
WHEREAS, for the past four years, the Oregon Commission for the Blind and the Oregon State Library, Talking Book and Braille Services have joined with the National Federation of the Blind of Oregon in sponsoring NFB-NEWSLINE® and
WHEREAS, the Oregon State Library, Talking Book and Braille Services has assumed the additional responsibility of maintaining the NFB-NEWSLINE® subscriber list and providing outreach to potential subscribers: Now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, by the National Federation of the Blind of Oregon, in convention assembled on this 6th day of November, 2010, in the city of Beaverton, Oregon, that this organization express our continuing gratitude to the Oregon Commission for the Blind and the Oregon State Library, Talking Book and Braille Services for their sponsorship of NFB-NEWSLINE®.