Library News

The latest updates from PPL

Nordstrom Window Installation
A window display designer setting up a window display at Providence Public Library

Visual Merchandising professionals from Nordstrom at Providence Place Mall, bring attention to the teen creations through artistic displays in the library’s Empire Street windows.

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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 …

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

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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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