"When word spread through the National Braille Press that we had won an LMP award, the first question most employees asked was, 'What blindness organization is giving out this award?'
"That illustrates best why this award is so important to us. This award recognizes that we do the same thing you do: we publish books, albeit in braille. And it recognizes that our readers want the same thing your readers want: they want to read books.
"Tonight you have focused on how we are alike, rather than on how we are different. This is the essence of integration. And that's what this award symbolizes to us, and to the people we serve. We accept this award on behalf of our founder, Francis B. Ierardi. Tonight you have recognized him as a peer."
Our Founder
