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Friday, July 29th, 2016School Library Journal is offering SLJteenLIVE! on August 10. This virtual conference is an online conference highlighting the upcoming YA books and important issues impacting YA/teen materials and programming. Presenters include authors and innovative librarians in an engaging conversational format, including live Q&A with the audience. Author panels will focus on important teen issues and […]
New Digital Archive “Colonial Justice”
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016“Colonial Justice” Digital Archive of 1729-1812 R.I. Court Records The Rhode Island Historical Society (RIHS) has launched the digital archive “Colonial Justice: Preserving and Digitizing Early Rhode Island Court Records.” These specific collections were selected by RIHS curators for digitization based on their rarity, as well as their unique documentation of the colonial justice system […]
Rhode Tour App in Spanish
Monday, June 20th, 2016Latinos in Rhode Island Bilingual Rhode Tour Read, see and hear about storied places, economic tales, and religious communities that have helped Latinos make Providence and Rhode Island their home using the new Latinos in Rhode Island Bilingual Rhode Tour. The project was funded as a product of the Latino Americans: 500 Years of History […]
Hurricane Preparedness Week May 15-21
Monday, May 16th, 2016The Federal Emergency Management agency (FEMA) and the RI Emergency Management Agency (RIEMA) have both declared that it’s hurricane season and are promoting hurricane preparedness. May 15 – 21 is Hurricane Preparedness Week. Now it the right time to update your disaster plan and make sure its current to meet present circumstances. (Really check it […]
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
Thursday, April 14th, 2016Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions—such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities—improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fueling Community Revitalization
Monday, February 29th, 2016The Institute of Museum and Library Services collaborated with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to produce the report Museums, Libraries and Comprehensive Initiatives: A First Look at Emerging Experience. The publication describes the ways that museums and libraries are helping fuel successful comprehensive community revitalization efforts and offers best practices for other institutions to follow. […]
Grant Opportunity from RI Foundation
Monday, December 28th, 2015In 2016, the Rhode Island Foundation will commemorate 100 years since its founding and plans to celebrate each of Rhode Island’s unique thirty-nine cities and towns by funding community-making projects throughout the state. We seek a diverse range of projects that may include improvements to parks, streetscapes, and other public spaces; creative use of art in […]
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