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Resources for the Public
Service Highlights FY25
152
Certified Libraries
1,332
CE Events Registrations
1,703,462
Items moved through Delivery
$14,088,248
State Aid for Libraries
OLIS News and Updates
Fall 2025 LORI Delivery Item Count
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The Fall 2025 Delivery Item Count will take place from Sunday, October 26 to Saturday, November 1, 2025. Participation is required for all LORI libraries.
NLS Music Notes Webinar, October 21
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Join us for our next NLS Music Notes webinar on Tuesday, October 21, at 7:30 p.m. eastern time via Zoom
That All May eRead, September 30
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The topic for the Tuesday, September 30, 2025, That All May eRead online program will be NLS eReader Searching: Tips and Tricks.
Resource Sharing LORI Certification Submission Deadline
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Attention, directors! LORI Certification closes Monday, Sept. 15 for academic, public and special libraries and Tuesday, Sept. 30 for school libraries.
Local Library Programs
October 2, 2025
➧ Costume Swap at Weaver Library (9:00 am-8:00 pm)
➧ Preschool Storytime with Miss Erin - 1st Fall Session at Rogers Free Library (9:30 am-10:20 am)
➧ Baby Bookworms Storytime at Newport Public Library (9:30 am-10:15 am)
➧ Baby Storytime (FULL) at Jesse M. Smith Memorial Library (9:30 am-9:50 am)
➧ Info Table: Retired Senior Volunteer Program at West Warwick Public Library (9:30 am-11:30 am)
➧ SPANISH GED CLASS 2025 - 2026 at South Providence Library (9:30 am-12:00 pm)
➧ Work Opportunities Unlimited Meeting at Smith Hill Library (9:30 am-1:00 pm)
➧ Babies & Board Books -- Indoors at Barrington Public Library (10:00 am-10:30 am)
➧ Jitterbug Storytime @ Central at Cranston Public Library - Central (10:00 am-10:30 am)
➧ Baby Storytime at Glocester Manton Free Library (10:00 am-10:30 am)
Featured Public Library
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Brownell Library
Books, yard games, tools, native seeds, and much more in a small, friendly place.
44 Commons
Little Compton, RI 02837