Annual Report 2013—2014

Number of Libraries 9Number of Staff 70Number of Patrons 54,529Library visits 766,583Size of Collection 363,549 Total Circulation 454,625Number of Programs 5,602Program Attendance 68,934Reference Transactions 61,203Public Computer Sessions 222,963

The Year— BY THE NUMBERS

Last year was a record year at PCL both for the number of programspresented and attendance by patrons. Demand for materials remainsstrong but the area where we’ve seen the greatest demand from ourpatrons, throughout the city, is for library programming – culturalprograms or educational programs, for young or for the no longer so young. PCL’s mission statement proudly states “Our community li-braries serve as vibrant hubs within the neighborhoods of Providence, providing programs and services that respond to theneeds of the community.” PCL’s staff listens to our patrons, respondsto their needs, and creates and presents the programs they want. e community has needs and PCL responds!

The Numbers Tell the Story

Program Attendance

2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

80,00070,00060,00050,000

40,00030,000

20,000

10,0000

Number of Programs

2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

6,000

5,000

4,000

3,000

2,000

1,000

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In 2009, the people of Providence decided that it was time to create a library that would be managed by the community, for our community. For the past five years, Providence CommunityLibrary has been doing just that.

Historically, libraries were a place for people to obtain share information and obtain books andperiodicals. We still lend books, of course, plus periodicals, DVDs and many other materials (even bicycle locks!). However, libraries such as PCL have moved and changed with the times, of-fering an ever changing and diverse range of programming, services and resources to patrons.

We listen to you and provide the programs and services that you tell us you need. You need access to the digital world? PCL makes hundreds of computers with broadband internet access availablefor free, public use, and we’ll teach you how to use them. You have a computer but don’t have access to the internet? PCL can lend you a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot so you can take free internetservice home with you, or you can connect to the Wi-Fi in and around all of our libraries with any of your devices.

You asked for cultural and education programs? is past year PCL staff and members of our li-brary community presented a record number of programs at PCL’s nine libraries. We know these were the programs you wanted, because more of you than ever – nearly 70,000 – attendedthese programs.

Whether it’s pre-school story time hours, adult book groups, concerts, poetry writing or per-forming, aer-school tutoring and homework help, financial literacy, ESL, CyberKids, peace flags,Summer Reading Program, school visits, arts & cras, guitar lessons, Comics Consortium, por-trait painting, films, GED and computer classes in Spanish, ballet, forums with mayoral candidates, or Cuban puppetry, PCL does it all – and more!

We have been especially excited about Ready for K!, our kindergarten readiness program that we are able to offer thanks to our receipt of a highly competitive grant from the Institute of Mu-seum and Library Services. During its first pilot year, PCL and its partners helped prepare morethan 50 young children to enter kindergarten, most of whom had no previous experience of formal early learning programs, for the start of their school years. Special thanks must go toSenator Reed as well as Senator Whitehouse and Congressman Cicilline for their help in our ob-taining this grant.

It has been an exciting and rewarding five years.With your support, PCL’s future will be just as bright!

LAURA MARLANEExecutive Director

he collaboration between Providence Community Library and the Providence Public SchoolDepartment has never been stronger. It is so exciting to work with a partner that continuously

works to ensure that they are designing programs and activities that will engage our youth. Whatmakes PCL amazing is that they welcome everyone and they are always looking to find new, inno-vative ways to grab the attention of our children. PCL is supporting our work to instill the love of reading, so our children can have access to strong summer reading lists as well as incentiveprograms that promote reading. It is always a pleasure to work alongside them.— GINA M. PICARD, Supervisor K-12 Literacy & Social Studies, Providence Public School Department

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“We listen to youand provide theprograms and serv-ices that you tell usyou need.”

• PCL collaborated with Inspiring Minds and PPSD, together with the Children’sMuseum, Boys & Girls Club, and the Providence YMCA, in the Kids Bridge Plusprogram. A 4-week summer project at Bailey School, Kids Bridge Plus helped 40rising kindergarteners get ready for kindergarten.

• When the Reservoir Avenue Elementary School suffered the temporary loss of itslibrary space, PCL supplied 400 books, twice a month for 3 months, and librarystaff so that the schoolchildren could continue to have library services at theirschool.

• PCL once again prepared the summer reading lists for PPSD students – pre Kthrough 12 – and purchased extra books from these lists (thanks in part to agrant from Ocean States Charities Trust) in order to support these students’ fightagainst summer reading loss.

PCL’s Educational and Cultural ProgramsReach a Wide Audience

PCL Continues its Partnership with the Providence Public SchoolDepartment to IncreaseStudent Literacy

“e partnership that Festival Ballet shareswith PCL is one that is so very close tomy heart. is partnership offers us theopportunity to bring ballet into commu-nities that might not otherwise have thisexperience. It is a first hand opportunityfor children to learn about ballet as anart form, learn the written story of theclassics and to try movements that dancersaccomplish only aer years of training.e cooperation with PCL has allowed theprogram to bring excitement and joy tothe children. eir positive feedback hasbeen the greatest reward. Some childrenhave even expressed an interest in study-ing dance in the future.”

— MARY ANN MAYER, School Director Festival Ballet Providence

• PCL achieved record numbers in both the number of programs presented and the number of community members attending programs.

• PCL’s resident poetry and rap instructor Yunus Quddus performed Onomatopo-etry, an interactive performance art and poetry event, funded in part by a grantfrom the Providence Shelter for Colored Children, at four libraries.

• e students of the Comics Consortium continued creating comics focusing theirstories on seat belt safety (as part of a RI Department of Transportation educationinitiative) and published Buckle It: An Anthology of Comics and Raps, which canbe found at all nine PCL libraries.

• Festival Ballet Providence gave multiple workshops at a number of libraries forour younger patrons based on the themes of the Peter Pan and Nutcracker ballets.

• A teen empowerment program funded by the Otto H. York Foundation allowedseven teens, trained by AmeriCorps members from the Institute for the Study &Practice of Non-Violence, to create programs for their peers on such diverse topics as creative writing, origami, volunteerism and self-presentation, drawing,geography and others.

• Children at every library commemorated International Day of Peace by makingpeace flags that were then displayed in the libraries. e workshops were pre-sented by the Peace Flag Project.

“It’s cool to come every ursday and docras. I especially liked it when we hadthe finger painting... my friends werepainting on each other.”— FELIX, 10 years old

“e response from parents in ourReady for K! program was incrediblypositive. Many of our families havebeen eager to participate in our otherprograms and are oen checking in to see what is new at the library.”

— GARRETT LOCKE, Children’s Specialist Mt. Pleasant Library

“Samuel (pictured above–far right) a veryshy little boy took part in Ready for K!During the program, he began to open upand to really enjoy storytelling and story-acting.For our graduation ceremony at theChildren’s Museum I hoped that Samuelwould agree to have the kids act out thestory he wrote. He was thrilled. at alsomeant that he would have to perform infront of 150 people! He became the story’sdirector and the lead actor. His mother

was amazed at how far her timid son hadprogressed during just a few months.We all agreed that Samuel was now ready for kindergarten.”

— TONI GARCIA Children’s SpecialistOlneyville Library

PCL Pioneers an Exciting School Readiness Program, Ready for K!

• PCL was one of just 40 libraries nationwide to receive a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

• PCL and its partner Ready to Learn Providence developed Ready for K!, a school readiness program designed to reduce the achievement gap for children about to enter kindergarten but who have never before participated in a formal early learning program.

• PCL worked directly with the Providence Public SchoolDepartment to recruit families during kindergarten registration at the PPSD Registration office in January and February 2014.

• Ready to Learn staff, together with Professor Benjamin Mardell, director of the Early Childhood Education Program at Lesley University, gave PCLchildren’s staff professional development training on diverse topics, such asRhode Island’s Early Learning and Development Standards (RIELDS) andMacArthur “genius” Vivien Paley’s storytelling / story-acting curriculum that recognizes the importance of dramatic play on young children’s social,linguistic and narrative development.

• 300 literacy kits, with 15 unique sets, were developed specifically for Ready for K! families. Each kit contains a book in English and Spanish, family activities related to the book, and all the supplies needed to do those activities. ese activities are aligned with RIELDS. Upon completion of the grant period, these kits will be available to all PCL patrons.

• With guidance from the professional development workshops, PCL staff de-signed and presented a robust 12-session curriculum for the parents and chil-dren at four of our libraries: Mt. Pleasant, Olneyville, Knight Memorial andWashington Park. Staff reported that the knowledge gained from this experi-ence has influenced their design of other programs in using RIELDS.

• More than 50 families with 80 children participated in weekly literacy train-ing programs for three months.

• Ready for K!’s first year culminated with a celebration at the Children’s Mu-seum, where more than 50 entering kindergarteners performed their storytelling and story-acting and received certificates recognizing their suc-cessful participation in this program.Over150attended this exciting event.

Latino Programming is Central to PCL’s Mission• PCL’s volunteer ESL teachers devoted themselves yet again to helping more than

100 adults learn the English language.

• PCL’s Spanish-language GED preparation classes continue to grow in popularity.Four classes were held, each class meeting for nine months, and 51 students graduated from the program.

• PCL continues to offer computer classes in Spanish for adults and now holdsadult knitting classes and children’s karate classes in Spanish too!

• As part of National Money Smart Week, PCL held programs in Retirement Plan-ning, Credit and Finance Management, and Home Buying and Consumer Edu-cation – all in Spanish!

• PCL hosted a pair of internationally recognized Cuban puppeteers who held a series of workshops demonstrating traditional Cuban puppet-making and per-formance techniques.

PCL Pioneers the Lending of Mobile Hot SpotsRecently, the New York and Chicago public library systems announced that theyare about to begin projects focused on lending Wi-Fi hotspot devices to house-holds lacking internet access. Which library system was the first to lend these de-vices to its patrons? Providence Community Library, of course!

Back in October 2012, PCL began allowing patrons to borrow Mobile Beacon 4Gmobile hot spots. Now available for borrowing from Knight Memorial Library andMt. Pleasant Library for a one-week lending period, PCL’s mobile hot spots allowpatrons to use their home computers, laptops, tablets or cell phones to search forjobs, access information on healthcare and benefits, conduct research, completehomework, view entertainment, and stay connected with family and friends. ehotspots can accommodate up to eight users or Wi-Fi devices at a time, with nobandwidth usage limits – and at no cost to the PCL’s patrons.

Having paved the way for libraries in how to use mobile technology, PCL’s pro-gram has attracted national interest from groups such as the American Library As-sociation and the Online Computer Library Center. Now two of the country’slargest library systems are jumping on board.

“ e ESL program at PCL is a wonder-ful resource for the community! Wehave a dedicated group of volunteerswho truly enjoy teaching and helpingothers gain the language skills thatwill help them improve their job op-portunities and navigate more easilyin the community. One student whocompleted my ESL class went on toenroll in the library’s GED class, andnow she is planning to attend a com-munity college. It is so rewarding tohelp people change the trajectories oftheir lives for the better.”

— MELISSA BUTTARO, PhD, Volunteer ESL Teacher

“Doing our Peace Flag Project with Providence Community Library is

always a pleasure.ere is a quietgrace in each of the libraries, andthe kids who cometo make Peace Flagsalways settle in to

thinking about peace and theirthoughts for a better world. We loveworking in the libraries each year.”

— GINNY FOX, Executive DirectorProvidence Peace Flag Project

Patrons Meet the Candidates at PCL Who will be the Next Mayor?

Assisting people in reaching their personal literacy goals and enhancing life skills in order to fulfill their responsibilities as citizens is central to PCL’s mission. An election year provides PCL with the perfect opportunityto assist our patrons with achieving greater political literacy. How to dothat? Introduce them directly to the candidates and their ideas.

Together with the League of Women Voters, PCL held Mayoral Forums in April, May and June at Knight Memorial, Wanskuck, and RochambeauLibraries. Overflow crowds attended these three forums to hear all the then-declared candidates for mayor of Providence discuss the economy, ed-ucation, transit, public safety and other issues. Of course the most significant of the issues discussed by the candidates was the importance of providing PCL with the resources it needs to continue to provide the peo-ple of Providence with the highest quality library services.

A smiling kid, about 13 years old, fre-quently comes in with his case worker. Heworks hard on improving his reading andsocial skills (he’s on the autism spectrum).He signed up for our Summer ReadingProgram and, with the help of his caseworker, was soon sharing his favoritebooks with me. When Knight’s SummerReading Party finale party finally came, he had read almost 16 hours and earned a prize for his beautiful drawings. Aer the awards his case worker came up to me.“I’m taking pictures of all of this to showhis parents. It’s such a big deal for him, you know.” “Getting an award?” I asked.“Yes,” she answered, “but also that he actu-ally walked up to receive his prize in frontof all these people- it’s a very big deal forhim!” He didn’t say anything, just lookeddown at the floor. Grinning.

— ALLISON RIENDEAU, Children’s LibrarianKnight Memorial Library

hanks to two grants from e Champlin Foundations, PCL was able to conduct extensive repairs and renovations to the historic

Smith Hill Library. With the construction of a new rear entry with el-evator and a handicapped accessible restroom, Smith Hill is now ac-cessible to all. PCL also rebuilt the library’s roof, repaired its masonryand windows, and installed a parking lot.

With upcoming Community Development Block Grants provided by the City of Providence, PCL will renovate the library’s entryway and –will install air conditioning!

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PCL’s Head of Collection Management Services and past president of the Rhode Island Library Association(RILA), Eileen Dyer, pictured with PCL founding mem-ber and Board Treasurer, Ellen Schwartz, aer she honored Ellen with the RILA “Trustee of the Year”award. Doug Victor and Karen Hlynsky, not pictured, of the Friends of Knight Memorial Library, receivedRILA’s “Meritorious Friends of the Library” award.

Financial InformationSnapshot of the Providence Community Library operating finances(unaudited) for fiscal year 2013-2014 (July 1, 2013–June 30, 2014). [Note:this does not include $876,655 in grants for capital purposes.]

Use of Resources: $5,209,080

Resources: $5,209,080

BOARD OF DIRECTORSMark McKenney, Esq. PRESIDENT

GOVERNOR’S APPOINTEE

Cyndie Wilmot VICE PRESIDENTFR I ENDS OF OLNEYVILLE

Joan Dagle SECRETARY FR I ENDS OF WAShINGTON PARK

Ellen Schwartz TREASURER • AT-LARGE

Christian Caldarone AT-LARGE

Kai Cameron FRIENDS OF SOUTh PROVIDENCE

Avital Chatto AT-LARGE

Elena Chiaradio AT-LARGE

Gonzalo Cuervo MAYORAL STAFF APPOINTEE

Cedric DeLeon FRIENDS OF ROChAMBEAU

Deborah Del Gais FRIENDS OF MT. PLEASANT

Dale Gorton FRIENDS OF WANSKUCK

Althea Graves FRIENDS OF SMITh hILL

Alan Gunther STAFF REPRESENTATIVE

Almas Kalafian AT-LARGE

Sister Ann Keefe SSJ AT-LARGE

Linda J. Kushner CITY COUNCIL APPOINTEE

Matthew Lawrence AT-LARGE

RochelleLee CITY COUNCIL APPOINTEE

Marcus Mitchell AT-LARGE

SilaphoneNhongvongsouthyMAYORAL APPOINTEE

Patricia Raub AT-LARGE

Bianca Rodriguez MAYORAL APPOINTEE

DeborahSchimberg FRIENDSOFKNIGhT MEMORIAL

KenWise FRIENDS OF FOX POINT

MARK McKENNEYPresident, Board of Directors

Providence Community Library is five years old,and I have been privileged to serve on its Board ofDirectors for that entire time – the last two years as president. One of the Board’s most importantresponsibilities is to ensure that PCL has theproper financial resources to carry out its mission.As you might imagine, that is quite the challenge!

Providence residents’ tax dollars provide the bulkof our funding, but PCL is not a City department.PCL is an independent non-profit organization thatprovides the people of Providence with their li-brary services.

When the City fell on lean times recently, it cut li-brary funding. PCL continued providing services at all nine libraries, but our budget was lean, to say the least. ankfully, the City has just restored most of what was cut, but that still only brings us back to the level of fundingwe received three years ago. And, compared to other cities in RI, and itspeers in New England, Providence gives far less support to its libraries. War-wick, Cranston, Hartford, Worcester – all provide more than Providencedoes, per capita and as a percentage of the city budget.

We are about to elect a new Mayor and City Council. If we want our librariesto continue to thrive, to respond to our needs, we must tell our elected represen-tatives that it is critical for the City to fund our libraries - the way they shouldbe funded!

City of Providence 64%State of RI grant-in-aid 15%State of RI–Statewide Reference Resource Center 6%Donations 11%Donated Materials 2%Other Income/Reserves 2%

Personnel 73%

Library Materials 5%

State Library Membership 4%

Occupancy 10%

Other Operating/Programs 8%

$1,000,000+City of ProvidenceState of Rhode Island (library grant-in-

aid and for the Statewide ReferenceResource Center)

$250,000+e Champlin Foundations (for

renovations to Smith Hill Library)

$25,000+Institute of Museum and Library ServicesMabel T. Woolley TrustRI Health Center Association

$10,000+GTECHLinda and Harold KushnerJune Rockwell Levy FoundationRhode Island House of RepresentativesOtto H. York FoundationRIDOT Office of Highway Safetye Rhode Island FoundationUnited Way of Rhode Island

$5,000+Elms Foundation (Merle, Standley, Larry,

Jill, Eugene and Melina Goldstein)Harry M., Miriam C. and William C.

Horton Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee

Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust John Clarke Trust, Bank of America,

N.A. Co-TrusteeNordson Corporation FoundationProvidence Journal Charitable FundRDW Group, Inc.Rhode Island State Senate

$2,500+Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.Citizens BankEmma G. Harris Foundation, Bank

of America, N.A., TrusteeFrederick C. Tanner Memorial FundBarbara GoldsteinHaffenreffer Family FundHasbroHinckley, Allen & Snyder L.L.P.Mark McKenneyOcean State Charities TrustProvidence Rotary Charities FoundationRhode Island State Council on the ArtsHerman RoseSharpe Family Foundatione White Family FoundationNaida Weisberg

$1,000+Anonymous Fund at the RI FoundationDavid BermanCynthia BertozziCapital Properties, Inc.John and Letitia CarterCox CharitiesDe Ramel Foundation

Kathryn Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi

Joan Gelch and Morris WeintraubJay Glasson and Victoria SmithClare and Vartan GregorianElizabeth Hollander and Carl KaestleSalvatore LaterraEleanor and David LewisHP Lovecra Bust ProjectBernard Nussbaum Family FoundationErna Schwartz PlaceGina Raimondo and Andrew MoffittDeborah SchimbergEllen Schwartz and Stephen CieslukChristine TownsendKeith and Rosmarie WaldropLucinda WilmotKen Wise

$500+Patricia and Donald BloughRoger Blumberg and Christina MitchellBrian and Ingrid ClarkeRallis Conover Family FundCox BusinessMary and Robert DalyJonathan and Ruth FainFlatbread Providence, Inc.e Friendship Fund

(Eastside Marketplace)Berne GreeneHome Loan FoundationMary Lovejoy and John WhistlerEsther E. M. MauranLouise Mauran and Cal GrotonMcCain Family FoundationMildred McLean and Daniel WaughSuzanne and Terrence MurrayCalvin OyerPawtucket Red Sox Baseball Club, Inc.Jill Pearlman and Stephen O'SheaJocelyn Prince and Christopher LeonePatricia Raub and Robert GoffRegency PlazaHeather RussoJohn Schlinke and Carol LaschPearle and Martin Silverstein FoundationShivan & Jyothi SubramaniamAbigail TestAnonymous (2)

$250+Edith AjelloEdward and Mary BishopPhoebe Blake and Peter McClurePhyllis BurkeAvital and Andrew ChattoElena ChiaradioMary ClarkMurray & Judith DanforthTammie and William DalmageEnivar Charitable FundMary FrappierDeborah FuriaGilbane Building CompanyCate and Richard GilbaneHolden HodgsonPeter Kramer and Rachel Schwartz

Lifelong Learning CollaborativeJustine Metz and Tina LevkovaOlympus Group ManagementMercedes QuevedoMarcia RiesmanKatherine & Peter ScheidlerPaul and Joan SorensenJohn and Susan WestonRichard Wong and Barbara Schepps Wong

$100+AAA Southern New EnglandAaronson,Lavoie Streitfeld, Diaz & Co.Joan & Richard AbramsFelicia Nimue AckermanPaul Adler and Lori BasilicoDonna and Mohammad AlmaiSusanna AngelilloGussie BaxtRobert Bedick and Marsha MillerPatricia and John BiasuzziEric BilodeauBliss PropertiesDawn BlizardJulie and David BochJoan BoghossianDonald and Elizabeth BreedBarbara BrosofskyHelen BuchananAnn ByrneChristian CaldaroneRonald and Terry CaldaroneWilliam and Frances CamachoPaul and Susan CampbellSuzanne and David CaneRoger Carlsten and Clare KingCharles and Sally CarpenterRichard and Inge ChafeeJoseph ChazanRobert ChisholmPaul ChoquetteGenise ChoyDavid CicillineMarie Clarke and Banice WebberRotem Cohen and Leslie GellMary and Jack ConnorGayle CorriganLinda Covington and Steven SlomanDiane Curran and Linda KatzMary Curtin-Clinker and Duane ClinkerConstantine and Jennifer DafermosKaren DaigleDeborah Del GaisCedric DeLeon and Emily HeaphyGerald DeSchepperJane Desforges and Michael WhiteAnn DodgeHelen DonnellyPaula DonovanCarla DowbenWendy DrummNoreen DuncanChristopher and Courtney DupaulEileen DyerRuth EdwardsSusan ErkkinenRobert and Pamela FaulknerSusan Feeley

Providence Community Library wishes to thank the hundreds of donors who helped makeour fih year possible and successful (gis made from July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014).

Bob Vincent, GTECH Senior Vice President, Human Resources& Public Affairs (pictured above)with a thank you card presentedby the children of WashingtonPark Library, at the opening of aGTECH Aer School Advantagecomputer lab. GTECH has nowdonated eight Aer School Ad-vantage labs to PCL.

GTECH was also the lead spon-sor of PCL’s fundraiser, Books toBank On, that raised funds tohelp pay the expansion of PCL’scollections, especially materialsfor children and youths. Othersponsors of that event wereRDW Group, the ProvidenceJournal Charitable Foundation,Adler Pollock & Sheehan, Has-bro, Hinckley Allen & Snyder,and CVS Caremark.

In-kind ContributorsGTECHe Providence Journal Co.Ellen Schwartz, CPASaccoccio & AssociatesAdler Pollock & Sheehan PC

. . . and the many readers who have given their treasuredbooks to our libraries.

Barbara and Walter FeldmanRonald and Heather FlorenceKathie FlorsheimHelen FlynnEdward and Gail FogartyForman Family Charitable TrustDonna and Harley FrankRebecca and James GalleSonia GallettiSusan GibbsMaurice and Yetta GlicksmanFreda GoldmanAnne Grant and Phil WestDavid and Janet GrayGreater Providence Chamber of Com-

merceSteven Hamburg and Sally BarkerJohn and Virginia HarkeyDaniel HarropMatthew HarveyCynthia HiattDouglas and Nancy HinmanElizabeth HobbinsRobert and Laura HoweSheila HughesDouglas Itkin and Anisa RaoofBarry and Ellen JagolinzerMuriel JobbersCoppelia KahnKahn, Litwin, Renza & Co., Ltd.Almas KalafianPatricia Kao and Benjamin RaphaelDavid and Elizabeth KaplanKambiz KarbassiDavid Karoff and Barbara HungerTamar Katz and Ed HardySister Ann KeefeSarah Keisling and Henry GouldJennifer KiddieRobert and Lorraine KingsburyEllen Lynch KinnaneSusan KorteJulie KrotRichard and Bernice KuminsSteve KuminsLisa LaDew and Bill MorrisRuth and George LandowChristopher Langlois and Tina RizackJohn Laterra and Amy FultonSheila LennonHeather LeslieJanice LibbyCatherine LittleDylan LittleJohn LombardiFrederick LoveCatherine LutzKarina LutzBeatrice MacCrackenJohn Marion and Karen NgLaura MarlaneBrad and Marcie MarstonMary Ellen McCabeMichaela McCaugheySara and Jack McConnellElizabeth and Philip McMasterGrace McSoleyBob and Eileen MedeirosKennon Miller and Jennifer NewkirkMarcus and Lynette MitchellSarah and Pierre MorenonRobert and Karen MorrowDavid Moscarelli and Lenke WoodDavid and Cindy MullenJane NelsonTim and Kelly NevinsDaniel and Wendee Nichols

Elizabeth OlsenJoseph and Susan PeckhamRaymond and Nancy PenzaElizabeth PerkinsRussell Phillips & Associates, LLCJudith and Richard PlotzNina PrattPatrick and Anne QuinnScott Rodenhizer and Katherine HanleyJudy RosenbergRuth RosenbergDavid and Holly RothemichRobert and Janis RothmanSharon RoundsBonnie RyvickerRuth SaltzmanLila SapinsleyDaisy Schnepel and Paul EvansJuergen and Anne SchulzStanley and Naomi SchwartzSol SchwartzmanAnne Scurria and Barry PressGeorge and Terry SeidelRosalyn SinclairMitchel and Katherine Sklaromas and Barbara SlaightSusan SmulyanMichael SolomonMary SpeareJudith SpeyerAndrew Sucov and Heather ChapmanTextron Matching Gi Programe Wednesday ClubMel TopfMark TracyKatherine and William TrimbleRobert TrudeauKim TwitchellElliott and Esther UrdangDaniel VarinJoann WatsonAnn WattersMiriam WeizenbaumKevin and Caitlin WhalleyNancy WhitChristina ZarcadoolasSam and Lauren ZurierAnonymous

$1+Virginia AdamsLorne Adrain and Ann HoodJames and Susan AllenWesley AlpertAmica Companies FoundationKenneth and Deborah AmylonCarole and Zane AndersonAndrew AnnaldoEd and Priscilla BaileyRachel BaxterCarolyn and David BealJillian BelangerDavid BennettJoan BishopAndrew and Beverly BlazarStanley BleeckerEdwin and Margaret BogerKathleen and James BowerEdward and Anne BozziDerek and Sara BradfordKris and Sam BradnerLuz Bravo-GleicherMary BrennanDavid and Deborah BrittoDenise and Vincent BrophyDaniel and Lisa BrosofskyDaniel and Janie Brown

Erika BrownAlison BuckserRod BurkettMargaret ButlerDan and Jayne CahillScott CallasKai CameronMaria CaponeEdmund and Betty CapozziErica CarsonJanet CastlemanMary ChaffeeEugene and Lynette CharniakPhillip ChasslerRuth and Russell ChurchRoger and Beverly ClarkDorothy CloosEnid CohenMarcia CollinsCarol CookJohn E. CorriganGonzalo CuervoJoan Dagle and James KittredgeFrancis and Hope DariganHadassah and Phillip DavisCornelis and Kathryn De BoerSergio DeConno and Margaret MacDowellAnne DewartWendell and Betsy DietrichDavid and Sally DillonMisha Djuric and Mark FleisherAmy and Jerrold DorfmanAaron DowdallHelen Drew and Kenneth PayneDorothy DumontRichard and Sheila DvorinDottie DyerAlex and Mira EidesMike EngConstantin EretescuAllan and Dorothy EricksonJanet Errico and Michael HursenTripp Evans and Ed CabralTemple FawcettBarbara FeldmanClifford Fields and Angela SimpsonSusan FisherBill FittsPatricia FontesPeter FordMuriel ForitRobert and Wendy FournierJack Fracasso and Lita OreficeWayne and Anne FranklinBob FrederiksenBarbara FriedmanJoan GadolOmar Galarraga and Sara DorschSandra Gandsman and Arnold HermanJames and Margaret GardnerCharles and Anne GermanJim and Bridget GershmanKendall GibbsGayle Gifford and Jon HowardPhyllis GilmetteSarah and Tom GleasonMarian GolditchZelda GoldmanMeyer and Sue-Rita GoldsteinDale GortonDorothy and Edwin GozonskyAlthea and Charles GravesFlora GreenanJudith and Samuel GreenblattJune and Gerald GrodenDenise GuadaninoFrederick and Olivia Guggenheim

Silaphone NhongvongsouthyElsie NickersonLana and John O'BrienCraig O'ConnorMarisa O'GaraMary OreganJay and Barbara OrsonBrendan O'Sullivan and Andrea MazieYvonne ParkerAnn PatrickShirley and Kenneth PayneCarle PietersIsabelle PingreePeter and Martha PizzarelloDiane PostoianMary PotterPrivacy JournalLance and Lisa PryorLesley PyronKurt Raaflaub and Deborah BoedekerSusan RappaneauAnn Marie ReddyAaron RegunbergSuzanne and William ReillyDavid and Jennifer RiedelRena RiesRick RobbinsKaren RomerAmelia RoseWilliam and Kristen RoseFred and Marcia RosenzweigElaine RossJohn Rossheim and Maureen KelmanLucy RossiKathryn RothMark and Christine RubinsteinDietrich and Marilyn Rueschemeyerad Russell and Jo SittenfeldDavid SalvatoreSalvatore and Irene SalvoClark and Carole SammartinoHarriet SamorsMark and Elaine SawtelleMichael and June ScanlonLisa SchachterSteven and Naomi SchechterAlbert and Barbara ScheinerWendy SchillerKim SchneiderMark and Helaine SchupackKaren Segel and Mark HellmanHinda SemenoffJonathanSharlin andOlivia McCulloughBruce and Judith ShawMyra ShaysStephanie Shea

Lucille SherlockAlyssa and Adam ShortWilliam and Susan SikovCaldwell Smith and Alice BenedictNicholas SofiosLaszlo and Agnes SomloCedric and Leonore SonesLionel SoraccoDebbie SpivakRobert SpoustaMary StaplesJerome and Hadassah SteinNaomi and Steven ScheinLucy StevensAlan and Linda StockdaleMarlene StromSteve Stycos and Chris HerbertBarbara S. SucoffRamin and Elisa TabaddorGrace TagliabueAnnie Talbot and Warren HeymanJanet Downing Taylore Robbins FoundationJoan TopalianCarolyn TuteinValerie TutsonRicardo and Cynthia VestutiBenjamin and Renee VogelJacqueline and Stephen WallaceAlisson Walsh and Adam BraverNina Wang and Richard DoyleFranics WardUla WardRita WarnockKay Warren and Loy CarringtonMichael WaughPeter and Judith WegnerEugene WeinbergBarbara WeindlingCarla WeissJohn WermerAlice and Peter WesterveltBrent Wetters and Carrie BestJoy WhartonJordan White and Jeff ManningCherine WhitneyScott Wolf and Joyce KrabachSusan WoodSabrina WoodsDavid WulffAlex YakubovskiyClaudia YellinRoger and Rosemary ZehntnerSamuel Zipp and Ilona MikoMelvin and Janet ZurierAnonymous

Children’s Specialist MelissaRivera and Children’s LibrarianAllison Riendeau displayingthe certificate awarded KnightMemorial Library by the SalemGospel Mission international:“In recognition of your com-mitment to improving thereading level of neighborhoodchildren and promoting schol-arship amongst people of allages and diverse backgroundsin the Providence Community.”

PCL partnered with a talented team of artists from AS220 Youth when it decided to transform a wall at the Washington Park Library into a colorful fantasy landscape. Based on ideas from staff and patrons, the mural is filled with characters from children’s literature, all of which have special significance for the Washington Park community. e goal was to pay homage to the great tradition of Broad Street murals and to raise the visibility of the library in this South Side neighborhood.

Linda GulleyAlan GuntherTeresa and Peter HacundaMary HallJudanne HamidzadaMark HarrimanBarrett and Mary HazeltineJames HeadJoy HearnHimalayan Group, Inc.Bernardine HodgkinsonJoseph Hoefferle and Sabrina WitherbyJudith HoffmanDana HolmgrenAndrew Horwitz and Alexandra CallamKristen HudgikMarjorie JaffeFred JodryBethany JohnsRobert and Dorothy JungelsMarilyn KaganGwen KangisBarbara KaroffPhyllis Kay and Richard DonellyGabor KeitnerCathy KellersMary Louise KennedyMaureen KennerPaula KeoghClare Kirby and Jim MaxwellWilliam and Linna KiteSteven KnappJohn and Berit KosterlitzRosemary KrauseEmily KuglerSeth Kurn and Barbara HarrisDiana KushnerAudrey Laforge and Francis LeazesCornelia and Robert LanouDebra LanoueVarda and Robert LevMichael and Rebbi LevinJudy and Mayer LevittOtto Liebmann and Rebekah GarnderPetros LinardosKevin Lindamood and Colleen ZeitzJane LindenLewis and Edna LipsittJudith LitchmanBrooke LittleEllen and Frank LongoLawrence LopesDeirdre LoveckySarah Mack and Jeffrey IsaacsEdward and Sheila MaddenRuth MarksJames Marsden and Barbara ZimmerTerrance and Dorothy MartiesianSaul MartinKaren Mcaninch and Steve MarkovitzAnne McAuliffe-O'DonnellMary and Donald McClureMichael and Florence McKennaVirginia McLoughlinPatrick McNiMichael Middeleer and Ellen WeltyAndrew and Christine MillerEleanor MinerJean MolliconeMichael and Martha MorenoGeorge MorganAmy MosesSusan and Samir MoubayedRosemary MurphyDonna NesselbushJohn and Margaret Neubauer

Rochambeau Library hosted“Dear Diorama,” an art contestfor book lovers. Readers werechallenged to create a shoeboxsize scene from a favorite book.Above: “Alice in Wonderland.”

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