Archive for March, 2016
Cranston Public Library Receives LibraryAware Award
Thursday, March 31st, 2016Cranston Public Library announced that it has been named the third place recipient of the 2016 LibraryAware Community Award. This national award, given by Library Journal and underwritten by LibraryAware™ (a product of the NoveList division of EBSCO Information Services), recognizes model communities that engage with their libraries to improve the lives of their citizens […]
RIFLI Administrator Named as Outstanding Administrator
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016Karisa Tashjian, director of the Rhode Island Family Literacy Initiative and Education Director at Providence Public Library, was named a runner up for the Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE) Outstanding Administrator of the Year award. COABE is a 13,000 member national organization that provides leadership, professional development and advocacy for adult education and literacy […]
Rhode Island Library Day – April 16
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016Thanks to the RI Library Association for coordinating this event, which was a great success last year. We hope all libraries participate again this year. RILA has graphics and sample letters to invite local officials to your library available on its Library Day webpage. Help raise awareness of all the wonderful things that happen in […]
Smart Money Week – Promote it!
Wednesday, March 16th, 20165th Annual Financial Literacy Awareness Series, Money Smart Week®, launches across Rhode Island from April 23 – 30, 2016 The Rhode Island Library Association (RILA) will launch the 5th annual financial literacy awareness series, Money Smart Week®, across Rhode Island from April 23 – 30, 2016 with events scheduled in libraries and community spaces throughout […]
Digital Commonwealth Conference
Monday, March 7th, 2016Digital Commonwealth Conference Enhance your knowledge of the development and preservation of digital collections at the 10th annual Digital Commonwealth Conference. April 5, 2015 College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts Keynotes by Society of American Archivists fellows Paul Conway and Richard Pearce-Moses. Additional sessions include: Brookline’s Wild-Sargent House of 1822: New life through digital […]
Resources for Reading Across RI 2016
Friday, March 4th, 2016Reading Across Rhode Island 2016 You undoubtedly know that the Reading Across Rhode Island (RARI) 2016 book is The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. You are thinking about incorporating the book into your reading group schedules and perhaps you have considered some programming but really aren’t sure where to go with it. The RI Center […]
Intellectual Freedom & Thomas Paine @yourlibrary
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016The American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) and Ian Ruskin offer libraries an opportunity to provide advance screenings of To Begin the World Over Again: the Life of Thomas Paine as a program for their communities before it’s aired on public television. In addition to the film license, libraries are supplied with the […]