Library News - Providence Public Library

Portals Candles Available – Limited Edition

Portals candle by Burke & Hare, sold during the 2015 Portals exhibition at Providence Public Library

Pour yourself a glass of wine, light a candle and settle in for a cozy night with your favorite book. We enlisted extraordinary candle-maker Erica …

Providence Public Library Receives $530,000 IMLS Grant to Create a High Impact Workforce Development Program Model to Serve 600+ Local Teens

Providence Public Library (PPL) has received a three-year IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) National Leadership Grant totaling $529,997. This matching grant to create a …

On Afrofuturism, Motherships, and Afronauts

Afro Futurism event at Providence Public Library, part of Portals exhibition

Confession: No one would ever consider me a sci-fi aficionado. Ever. Music has always been my escape and where my imaginings of my place in …

Travel from Book to Film

Transport yourself through time and space when you travel from book to film. These pairs include romance, magic, time travel, strange creatures, apes and Mars. …

Fox Point Juvenile Delinquents

Text from a book in Providence Public Library's Special Collections

Oh My Goodness! This little book is the Holy Grail of Fox Point juvenile delinquency! This was where the Fox Point Boy’s Club recorded the …

Folio Balcony & Mummies

An illustration of mummies from Providence Public Library Special Collections

Today I got to visit the elusive Folio Balcony and I noticed a big blue book on a shelf titled ‘Necropolis of Ancon in Peru.’ It …