OLIS News & Updates

Week of February 18, 2019

What's New on the OLIS Website?

Announcing Kids Reading Across RI 2019
The Kids Reading Across RI Committee is proud to announce that Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks is this year's selection!

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Studio Rhode Toolkit Available
OLIS partnered with the RI Office of Innovation for Studio Rhode, providing 6 grants to public libraries for innovative pilot programs to support multi-generational digital learning. The Studio Rhode Toolkit is now available online, and includes lessons learned, case studies, and additional resources.

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Voting for the RI Children's Book Award
The time has come for your students and patrons in grades 3-5 to vote for their favorite book among the RI Children’s Book Award nominees for 2019! All voting and program evaluation will be done online. Beginning February 1, your school or library’s voting results can be entered at http://olis-ri.libwizard.com/ricba2019. All voting results must be submitted by Friday, March 1.

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Addressing Barriers to Effective Communication
The Ocean State Center for Independent Living (OSCIL) has been operating for over 30 years providing services for people with disabilities. Join OSCIL, Executive Director, Lorna Ricci in this inter-active session to learn how to communicate more effectively with your blind, vision impaired, deaf, hearing impaired and/or physically disabled library patrons.

What's New on Rhodarian?

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RILA Money Smart Week

Money Smart Week begins on March 30th! Still haven’t booked a program? The Financial Literacy Roundtable (FLRT) has compiled a list of contacts for financial education providers throughout the state to help you get started: Financial Literacy Program Resource List...

Preservation and Programming Grants Available

The Rhode Island Foundation is accepting grant applications for the preservation of original historical manuscripts and municipal records; and for the preservation of records or the implementation of programs about Rhode Island legal history and/or constitutional history...

Commitment to Expand Access to Naloxone Continues

Emergent BioSolutions, through its subsidiary Adapt Pharma, will continue offering one free box (two doses) of NARCAN® (naloxone HCl) Nasal Spray, the leading community-use naloxone, and educational materials to public libraries...

What's New on Talking Books Library?

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The Library of Congress Wants Your Opinion

Beginning in early March, a sample of patrons across the country who currently use services provided by the Library of Congress’s National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped–also known as NLS–will be invited to participate in a nationwide survey...

Marrakesh Treaty Ratification

“The National Library Service (NLS) has received notice from the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress that the United States has officially joined the “Marrakesh Treaty” to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, by depositing its instrument of ratification with the World Intellectual Property Organization...

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Mail Issues

Many of our members have called to tell us that they have not received their talking books. Unfortunately, this seems to be happening across the U.S. and we are trying to figure out why this is happening...