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ALA has released a new online toolkit Small is Powerful, Winning Support for Your Rural Library. The toolkit would be useful for any library, not just rural ones. (This being RI, substitute “small” for rural.) The toolkit includes three sections, Your Message, Your Strategy, and Tools, along with key talking points and […]

Here is a listing of RI local and regional newspapers with pertinent information for libraries.
If you know of others, please comment.
America News
PO Box 743, Pawtucket, RI    02852
8 Academy Ave., Providence, RI 02908
401-722-6369
Alfonso Acevedo – editor and publisher
americanews@yahoo.com
 
GARRI News
Assciation Guatemalteca de Rhode Island
PO Box 29012
Providence, RI
401-943-2562
Of Interest to the RI Guatemalan population.
 
El Latino Expreso
http://www.neexpreso.com/
10 Purchase Street
Fall […]

Do you have valuable, fragile, or oversize collections materials to digitize?
THE NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER (NEDCC) has expanded its Digital Imaging Services to include high-quality digitization of historic photographs and visual materials with no size limitations.
NEDCC CAN DIGITIZE:
Photographic prints, film negatives, lantern slides, glass-plate negatives, film slides, documents, works of art on paper, scrapbooks, illustrations […]

L-TV 95 Book Talk part 2
Sunday Sept. 24 12:30pm
Monday Sept. 25 2:00pm
Wednesday Sept. 27 9:00pm
L-TV 89 Talking with Lisa […]

As an extension of the Gates-funded Spanish Language Outreach Program, we will be posting Spanish Language Outreach Resources that RI libraries can use for serving this fast-growing segment of the RI population. According to a US Census Bureau projection “persons of Hispanic origin, who may be of any race, is projected to increase […]

The Rhode Island Festival of Children’s Books and Authors will take place at the Lincoln School in Providence on Saturday, October 14 from 9:30 to 5:30. The festival will feature a number of authors and illustrators, including Louise Borden, Andrew Clements, Etienne Delessert, George Harrar, Lisa and Tucker Johnson, Jarrett Krosoczka, Brian Lies, John […]

The Rhode Island Coalition of Library Advocates* (COLA) invites members of established or potential friends groups throughout Rhode Island to Share and Shmooze: A Library Friends Groups Roundtable on Saturday, October 14, 2006 at the Warwick Public Library at 10:00 a.m. Participants will share ideas for programming, fundraising, and advocacy as well as information […]

Celebrate Banned Books Week with Chris Crutcher and Sonya Sones
On Monday, September 25, at 10 a.m. EDT, the American Library Association will participate in a virtual panel discussion to kick off the 25th anniversary of Banned Books Week (September 23-30). Sponsored by MAGPI at the University of Pennsylvania, the panel will feature YA […]

The American Library Association Washington Office offers a three-part interactive course free to ALA members. “Messaging and Talking with Congress†guides users through the process of developing messages, teaches users to communicate effectively with Members of Congress and other elected officials, and offers strategies on building lasting relationships with Congressional staff. Users may navigate the […]

Robert Kelly writes

Call for Participants: The annual URI GSLIS Mentor Night will be held this year at the URI U‑Club on Wednesday, September 27th from 6:30‑8:30. RILA is pleased to be co‑sponsoring this year with RIEMA making this event even more successful! Plenty of great food, refreshments and give‑aways will be available.
Clarification: This is not […]