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MoneySmart Week @ your library
By karen | March 23, 2012
The RI Library Association is working with libraries across the state in preparation for MoneySmart Week @ your library, which takes place April 21-28. To kick things off, RILA and the Office of Library and Information Services partnered to offer a continuing education workshop on financial literacy, which took place at the Cranston Public Library on March 21. Twenty librarians gathered to hear speakers from URI’s Center for Personal Financial Education and Sojourner House. Joan Gray Anderson shared some great resources for personal finance topics, while Claudia Kerbel led an illuminating discussion on identity theft. Megan Smith provided information about Sojourner House, a comprehensive domestic violence agency, focusing on financial issues that victims of domestic violence face.
If you couldn’t make the session, check out the events happening around the state during RILA’s MoneySmart Week. And if you’re hosting or plan on hosting financial literacy sessions during MoneySmart week, make sure you get your event on the RILA schedule!
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the American Library Association developed Money Smart Week @ your library to promote personal financial literacy. Over 30 states participated in 2011 and this year the Rhode Island Library Association is bringing the program to RI libraries around the state. Money Smart Week 2012 will take place April 21-28. For more information about MoneySmart activities in RI libraries, contact Chris Wallace Goldstein or Julie DeCesare at the RI Library Association.
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