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Over one hundred volunteers stand together smiling at Maceli's and looking up at the camera.
With hundreds of amazing, dedicated volunteers, Audio-Reader staff look forward to celebrating them and their efforts each year at the Annual Volunteer Banquet, this year held on April 14, 2026 at Maceli's.
Volunteer Tom K., wearing a brown leather suit coat with white hair and matching beard, speaks into a microphone with an open local newspaper in his hands.
The Alliance of Rural Public Media aims to ensure that rural Americans continue to receive the essential daily local service that public radio provides. To that end, they featured Audio-Reader, a no cost local resource for the blind and print-disabled, on a recent blog post.
A collage of three images include one with Meredith Johanning with a KU student named Tess loading equipment into the KPR van, one featuring volunteer Michael Gier reading in the Audio-Reader studios, and the third of Dr. Carl Graves holding a textbook he read as a special request.
Audio-Reader has recently had two articles featured in KU Today - one about our donation drive in Topeka and the other about our IAAIS awards