The Louis Braille Traveling Exhibit opens today at the California Braille and Talking Book Library

The Louis Braille Traveling Exhibit opens today at the California Braille and Talking Book Library, 900 N Street in Sacramento,  California.

The exhibit will run September 1st through 25th (excluding Labor Day) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A related event will feature a talk and book signing by C. Michael Mellor, author of “Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius” on September 9 at 2 p.m., followed by a reception in the outdoor fragrance garden. The Society for the Blind will co-sponsor this event with the Braille & Talking Book Library.

For more information about the Sacramento exhibit and author  talk,  call the California Braille and Talking Book Library at (916) 654-0640, (800) 952-5666 (toll free in CA), or email btbl@library.ca.gov.

The exhibit will go on to appear in several locations around the country, well into next year. Find out if it will be near you – see the schedule at http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/louis/louis_tour.html

Read about C. Michael Mellor’s ‘ Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius’  at http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/LB.html