August 2021 -- News & Upcoming Programs |
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In This Issue...
-- On Exhibit...History of PPL, final days
-- NEW! MANGA Collection at PPL
-- Community Garden Will Soon be Completed
-- CHOP Coming to PPL!
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Library Services Expanded
Our current open hours are:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 8:30 am - 7 pm
Thursday, Friday: 10 am - 5 pm
Saturday: 9 am - 4 pm
Sunday: Closed
Our upper levels and stacks are open. Masks are required in the Library.
Get complete info on our hours & services and making appointments.
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POP-UP Covid-19 Vaccine Clinic at PPL!
Friday, August 27 | 12 - 2 pm
PPL Workshop, 150 Empire Street, Providence
WALK-IN...no registration needed. Both J & J and Pfizer shots given. This clinic is offered in partnership with One Neighborhood Builders and the Central Providence Health Equity Zone, PPL will host a vaccine clinic 12-2. Covid-19 testing will also be available.
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ON EXHIBIT: The History of PPL...final days
Please visit and take in our History of PPL Exhibition currently on display in our Providence Journal Rhode Island Room, 1st floor. While you're here, check out the ongoing Documenting Place as Witness exhibit and the Yesterday Recording Station, by Creative Fellow Kelly Eriksen Perez, both in the Lobby.
Coming in September, we will have an exhibition in the Rhode Island Room in collaboration with the Providence Waterways project and City of Providence Archives that will display artifacts and history related to Providence's Waterways.
Tour the Library!
We'd love to show you around our beautiful new library! We are offering tours weekly on Wednesdays at 11 am. All welcome. Sign up in our calendar to let us know you're coming.
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Journey to Financial Security
We're pleased to present Bank of America’s Journey to Financial Security -- a series of courses designed as a roadmap for adults in their journey to become financially secure. Developed by Money Management International, the programs are customized for adults of all ages.
The program is offered virtually from 6 - 7 pm as follows (register for one or all for zoom links):
Paying Yourself First
A look at different methods and techniques to build your savings.
Financial Safety and Building Healthy Credit
Understanding the importance of your credit score and credit report as well as ways to identify and protect yourself from identity theft.
Paying for College
An overview of what to expect when saving for college and where to get help.
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September RITUG Meeting
September 15 | 6:30 - 8 pm via Zoom
Join us for our September meeting and guest speaker Pranav Modak, independent consultant, talking about efficient data vizualizations and steps to take to improve our data vizualization capabilities. Audience Q&A, Poll Questions & Break Out Rooms.
Data for Good volunteers will present on the current project to help a local nonprofit tell its data story.
The purpose of RITUG, which holds quarterly meetings at PPL, is to share knowledge, build skills, and connect with other Tableau users in Rhode Island and the surrounding area. RITUG also hosts free Tableau community service projects (Data for Good) — offering opportunities to both skill-build and give back. The group is open to all, whether you are a student of data analysis or a wizard. RITUG has been endorsed by Tableau as an official Tableau User Group.
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NEW -- MANGA Collection at PPL!
We recently celebrated the introduction of our brand new Manga collection in our Teen Loft with the collection creators and some friends! We want to thank these two special PPL teens... Ethan Moreta (left) and Badhan Hasan (right) (E3 Academy '22) who together undertook the creation of a manga collection at PPL. Our newest collection is the result of their valiant efforts over the past year! Thanks to all who helped us celebrate.
The collection will initially have 222 volumes once completely processed and will be available in the Ocean State Libraries system!
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Welcome to our Community Garden!
Our Community Garden was built atop our garage earlier this month! We will be putting the finishing touches on in the coming days and hope to unveil it in September. Stay tuned!
Thanks to a LORI (Library of Rhode Island) grant through the RI Office of Library and Information Services, and our project partner DownCity Design, PPL's Library Garden Exchange will create a bridge between gardening and literacy practices, specifically among immigrant and refugee communities in Providence.
We surveyed immigrant communities, for whom English is not their native language, to understand what literacy items they'd be interested in reading in their native language in the areas of STEM, environment, gardening, etc. This information will be used to expand our non-English materials at PPL. Additionally, we will be creating packages of books and other gardening and literacy materials in non-English languages to share with our community partners who serve immigrant communities.
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We'd Like to Share Our Incredible Two-Year Journey
We're pleased to share our 2019-2020 Annual Report, which chronicles our two-year transformation. Hope you enjoy seeing and reading about what we've been up to through this historic renovation!
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In the mid to late 19th century, New Bedford, Mass. was the center of the global whaling industry. At its zenith in 1857, ships from New Bedford and surrounding towns represented half of all the world’s whaling catch. The industry supported both the whale fishing industry as well as a vast shore economy that resulted in massive wealth. In subsequent decades, the industry suffered a gradual decline as overfishing and technological changes resulted in less demand for whale products.
This collection includes photographic images that document the latter period of the New Bedford whaling industry. The collection includes glass plate negatives and photographic prints of various whaling ships as well as streets, wharves and other buildings in New Bedford in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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Coming Soon -- CHOP!
CHOP is a hybrid workforce development, economic development, and retail hub. The initiative is a natural expansion of their longstanding and successful culinary arts program and will better meet the evolving needs of participants and employers in the hospitality field. CHOP will serve as a culinary education and training hub, where it will create jobs, support business, and strengthen the local community. We're especially excited to have CHOP as a partner that share's our focus on workforce development initiatives. Please join us in welcoming CHOP to PPL!
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PPL BOOK CLUBS!
From fiction & nonfiction, to history, and more...we have you covered! The new season Brown Bag Book Club will be starting up again September 28.
Our book clubs are currently meeting via Zoom, and all are welcome!
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