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COLA, the Rhode Island Coalition of Library Advocates, is sponsoring a Friends Group Workshop.  Boosting Libraries: A Conversation about Advocacy, facilitated by Carol Grant, will take place on Saturday October 18 from 10 am to noon at the William Hall Library in Cranston.
Carol Grant, Chief of Operations for the City of Providence from 2003-07, was […]

L-TV 123 Travel Books
Fran Farrell Bergeron interviews L-TV co-host Kathryn Taylor about Kathryn’s worldwide travels and adventures and the books that provide good insights before and after each journey.
Sunday, September  28     -  12:30 pm
Monday,  September 29     -    2:00 pm
Wednesday, October 1       -   9:00 pm
L-TV is shown on the Statewide Interconnect Channel A which is cable […]

Barrington Public Library (RI) is one of 50 public and academic libraries to receive grants of $500 plus supporting program materials for the FRONTLINE/World Social Entrepreneurs Series.
The grant funds will promote the screening and discussion of one the series’ short documentary films on innovative social entrepreneurs around the world. The selected libraries will use the […]

New versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox and the new Google Chrome make the browser war interesting again.
Earlier this month Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 beta, promoted as Microsoft’s new standards compliant browser.  Seems the previous iterations of IE weren’t quite as standards compliant as they should be.  To help out all the poor souls […]

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association announce the opportunity to apply for a We the People “Picturing America” Bookshelf.
The We the People Bookshelf, a collection of classic books for young readers, is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) We the People program, conducted in cooperation with […]

L-TV 129 Cornerstone of the Community: Burrillville’s New Library
Debbie Barchi interviews Sandra Mundy, director of Burrillville’s new Jesse M. Smith Memorial Library, and G. Wayne Miller, chairperson of the Jesse M. Smith Memorial Library Board of Trustees and member of the building committee, about how and why the new library building came to be.
Sunday, September 21       -      12:30 […]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is presenting a webinar on September 25, 2008, at 1 pm ET, on the New Naturalization Test. The free webinar, hosted by WebJunction, will provide an overview of the newly redesigned naturalization test.  The program will cover the necessary skills and instructional methods required by instructors […]

YWCA Northern Rhode Island Announces Women of Achievement Award Winners 2008
Women of Achievement Awards are recognized nationally. They increase awareness and appreciation of the diverse contributions of women. YWCA Northern Rhode Island is pleased to announce the Women of Achievement Award Winners for 2008, fifteen local women that work for the economic empowerment […]

L-TV 120 Fact vs. Fiction
Fran Farrell-Bergeron, director of the West Warwick Public Library, talks with Hope Houston, the Reference Librarian at OLIS, and John Bucci, the Librarian at Cranston’s William Hall Library, about fiction and non fiction books that examine the same subject matter.
Sunday, September 14       - 12:30 pm
Monday, September 15       -  2:00  pm
Wednesday, September 17  -  9:00 pm
L-TV […]

Library Journal’s annual award for the Best Small Library in America, cosponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was founded to encourage and showcase the exemplary work of these libraries. The award honors the public library that most profoundly demonstrates outstanding service to populations of 25,000 or less.
The winning library will receive […]