OLIS News & Continuing Education

Week of September 2, 2019

What's New on the OLIS Website?

2019 National Book Festival
The RI Office of Library & Information Services (OLIS) joined the RI Center for the Book to represent Rhode Island in the Parade of States at the 19th Annual National Book Festival on August 31 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. The festival drew over 10,000 people to celebrate reading and meet their favorite authors.

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Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Summit
The RI Office of Library & Information Services, along with the RI Library Association, Cornucopia of RI, and the URI Graduate School of Library & Information Services, held a day long Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Summit on August 7 at the University of Rhode Island's Carothers Library. The purpose of the day was for library staff to come together for a statewide conversation about how to embed equity, diversity & inclusion practices into library services, programs, collections, and work culture.

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Fall 2019 Continuing Education session open now
The Fall 2019 Continuing Education session is open for registrations. Explore roundtable meetings and programs on topics including marketing, community needs assessment, copyright, and equity, diversity and inclusion. Save the date for December 11, when Ryan Dowd will present a full day Librarian's Guide to Homelessness Training at the Cranston Public Library.

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Spring 2019 LORI Delivery Items Count Results
42,404 items were transported in the LORI Delivery system during the week of April 7, 2019.

What's New on Rhodarian?

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Information Outreach in Your Community

Getting Started with Information Outreach in Your Community: An Introduction. The National Network of Libraries of Medicine is offering a free interactive online class that will provide a background in cultural competence and outreach skills to support librarians ...

Free Smithsonian Poster Exhibit Available

War I: Lessons And Legacies For Libraries. The Smithsonian Institution is offering a free poster exhibition about World War I to all types of libraries: public, school, college/university, and special libraries...

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Application Period Open for IMLS Grants

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is now accepting FY 2020 proposals for National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG-L) and Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (LB21). Applicants have through September 27, 2019 to submit their two-page preliminary proposals....

What's New on Talking Books Library?

Do You Have More Than One Talking Book Machine?

If you have more than one Digital Talking Book Machine (DTBM), please return them so that we can be sure to have enough to supply new patrons. Institutions who are members may have more than one machine, but individuals should only have one...

NLS Suspends Inactive BARD Accounts

“Any patron account that has not been used in 180 days or more will be moved to an Inactive/Suspended status. When BARD identifies a patron account that meets this criteria, it will move the account to an Inactive/Suspended status.”

NASA’s 50th Anniversary – Book List

In honor of this month’s 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, the following Reading List contains 27 adult titles about NASA and its history. Courtesy of the Wolfner Library in Jefferson City, MO...