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By 1935, the Rhode Island State Library was administering state aid for community libraries and library extension service. [4] The Department of State Library Services (now OLIS) was founded in 1964 as a result of legislation initiated by the Rhode Island Library Association , taking over some of these roles from the State Library.
Middletown is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 17,075 at the 2020 census . It lies to the south of Portsmouth and to the north of Newport on Aquidneck Island , hence the name "Middletown."
The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a subscription library, museum, rare book repository and research center founded in 1747, and located at 50 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The building, designed by Peter Harrison and completed in March 1750, was the first purposely built library in the United States, and the oldest neo-Classical ...
At about 15,000 square feet, the new Middletown facility on East Green Street will be about 500% larger than the current library of about 2,500 square feet on Prospect Street, Cambrel wrote. Show ...
The Rhode Island Library Association (RILA) is a professional organization for Rhode Island's librarians and library workers. [1] It is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island . It was founded on March 9, 1903, at the Providence Public Library in Providence, Rhode Island , at a meeting organized by Frank G. Bates, State Librarian of Rhode ...
The Newport Public Library was charted by the State of Rhode Island in 1869. The People’s Free Library opened their doors on May 4, 1870 with the combined collections of the Newport Free Library, Townsend’s curated collection, and the services of the Newport Free Library’s Librarian Elma M. Dame, as the People’s Free Library.
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South Providence Library—A Community Library of Providence is an historic branch library building at 441 Prairie Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island. The main portion of the building is a single-story brick Colonial Revival structure, designed by Wallis Howe and built in 1930.