2009 Milan, Italy

Theme: Using technology to give the past a future: the journey from Braille to XML

• "Feelix" the start of a journey to literacy: a unique Braille library makes picture books accessible for the first time to infants and young children who are blind or vision impaired
  JULIA RAE and LOUISE CURTIN (Vision Australia, Melbourne, Australia)
• Braille without borders: how Braille is used in creation of literature in indigenous languages using today's technologies
  DIPENDRA MANOCHA, GEORGE KERSCHER and HIROSHI KAWAMURA (DAISY Consortium, New Delhi – India, Missoula – USA, Tokyo – Japan)
• Using new technology to improve existing services a the Norwegian National Library: collaboration between the Norwegian Library for Talking Books and Braille (NLB) and the Norwegian National Library (NB)
  ARNE KURKJEBØ (Norwegian Library for Talking Books and Braille, Oslo, Norway)
• Breaking new ground: a virtual global library service to widen access for people with print disabilities
  Translations: [Français]
  JULIE RAE (Vision Australia, Melbourne, Australia)