Tag: Tonia Mason
Injunction protects library funding, but uncertainty and disruption remain
PROVIDENCE – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha has secured a permanent injunction against federal funding cuts to libraries and museums, but for the Providence...
Providence Public Library lays off 5 staffers, federal funds remain in...
PROVIDENCE – The Providence Public Library has confirmed that five staffers have been laid off and that notices were sent to an additional six...
Beyond book learning: Training programs soaring at expanded Providence Public Library
Eric Khiev is looking to make a career change, and that’s why he was at the Providence Public Library last fall.
Khiev holds a bachelor’s...
Library workforce training a vital community lifeline
A $28.5 million modernization of the Providence Public Library has, by all accounts, been a success, despite being completed at the onset of the...
Providence Public Library graduates first class of Microsoft Excel program
PROVIDENCE – Sixteen Rhode Island residents recently graduated from a Providence Public Library pilot program offering free Microsoft Excel and English-language training.
The class, Microsoft Excel Work Readiness...
Writing the book on learning lounges
2019 PBN Innovative Companies: Education
Providence Public Library
IT STARTED WITH a few couches, some lamps and a commitment to not look like a formal...
Training at heart of PPL’s new mission
The Providence Public Library, the grand dame of Rhode Island’s public libraries, is just a shell of its former self … literally.
Last fall the...
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