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PPL awarded community grant from Mobile Beacon

Mobile Beacon is celebrating 10 years of providing high-speed, low-cost, mobile internet access to the anchors of communities: nonprofits, schools, libraries, and healthcare organizations. In …

PPL Awarded Libraries Build Business Grant from American Library Association and Google.org to Help Libraries Support Small Businesses

Selected Libraries To Publish a “Guidebook” For All Libraries to Help Small Businesses Based on their Learnings Providence Public Library (PPL) announced today receipt of …

PPL Announces Summer Virtual and Online Learning Programs & Series for Teens and Adults

From a Summer DEI Learning Challenge to a complete line-up of free technology training series from Providence Public Library, NOW is the time to sign …

2020 Passport to Summer Learning Goes Virtual

Annual citywide summer learning initiative for 15,000 Providence K – 5 school children will kick off on June 22 Now in its seventh year, the …

A Message of Solidarity from Jack Martin, PPL Executive Director

Dear PPL Community, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery. I am devastated by these horrific murders, by the systemic racism that continues to haunt and …

PPL and RI Historical Society Launch Digital Archive of COVID-19 in Rhode Island

Public digital archive to record stories, photographs, artwork, oral histories, social media and memories of the COVID-19 pandemic in Rhode Island Providence Public Library (PPL) …