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L-TV 108 Interesting Books, part 1
A lively book discussion on a wide variety of titles.
Sunday, May 27 - 12:30 pm
No showing of L-TV on Monday the 28th due to the holiday
Wednesday, May 30- 9:00 pm
L-TV 109 Interesting Books, part 2
There’s never enough time to discuss all the great books that our hosts and guests […]

L-TV 107 Rediscovering Victorian Novels
Deborah Barchi and Fran Farrell Bergeron discuss their favorite titles among Victorian Novels, singling out specific titles that deserve to be read more than once.
Sunday, May 20 - 12:30 pm
Monday, May 21 - 2:00pm
Wednesday, May 23 - 9:00 pm

IMLS is offering a five-week instructor-mediated Online Course on Outcomes and Evaluation. It is offered free to museums & libraries this Summer and Fall. This is another opportunity […]

L-TV 115 An Interview with Denise Inman
Deborah Barchi talks with Denise Inman, the librarian at the Rumford Branch Library in East Providence, about the interaction branch librarians have with their neighborhood patrons and also about the broad range of reader’s advisory services provided by branch librarians. Many interesting books for patrons of all ages are […]

Gale is offering a $10,000 prize for the winning video in their “I Love My Library Contest.” The contest was launched as a fun and easy way for people to express their appreciation for the contributions of libraries and librarians. The prize will be split between the video creator(s) and the library.
Gale has created […]

L-TV 110 A Librarian’s Must Read List
Deborah Barchi and Fran Farrell Bergeron discuss the wonderful but sometimes difficult titles that just might be on your “Must Read List.”
Wednesday, May 9 - 9:00 pm

Plymouth State Unviersity’s WPopac won the prestigious Mellon Award for an innovative online pubic access catalog system inside the framework of WordPress. WordPress is a popular blog management freeware that powers this particular blog, Rhodarian. WPopac is one of the 10 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration recipients, out of several hundred nominees for […]

As the Library of Congress celebrated the 207th anniversary of its founding, it also launched its first blog. The first posting was titled “What Hath God Wrought?” which were the first words ever transmitted electronically, in 1844, by Samuel Morse. Check out the LC blog and get your own RSS feed from it by going […]

Nominated by the Office of Library and Information Services, Kate Wodehouse and Jenifer Bond were selected to attend Connecting to Collections: The National Conservation Summit.
Kate is the Head of Collections at the Providence Athenaeum, where her role is to select, organize, manage and preserve the collections including books, serials, art, the archives and digital […]

Elizabeth Delmage, Collections Assistant and Society of the Cincinnati Intern at the RI Historical Society and URI GSLIS student, has been selected to the “Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program” at the Library of Congress.
This ten week program offers graduate and undergraduate students insights into the environment and culture of the world’s largest and most comprehensive […]