Programs & Events

Reading Across Rhode Island

The entire state reads the same book

Rhode Island's "One Book, One State" program. The 2008 title for RARI is Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants . Important dates, information and resources can be found on the Reading Across Rhode Island site.

Letters About Literature

RI schoolchildren write letters to their favorite author

A national reading-writing contest for children in grades 4 through 12, sponsored by the Library of Congress Center for the Book and the Rhode Island Center for the Book, in partnership with Target Stores. For more information, as well as guidelines and a Teacher's Guide, click here.

RI BookLinks

An online guide to the RI book community

Get connected! Go to RI BookLinks for a panoramic view of the Rhode Island book community. Arranged by category, RI BookLinks connects you to over 300 organizations and individuals involved with reading, writing, making and sharing books across Rhode Island.

Arts of the Book

Events focused on the arts of the book, offered in partnership with other organizations

Co-sponsors of the arts of the book lecture series have been the Providence Athenaeum, the John Russell Bartlett Society, the New England chapter of the American Printing History Association, the Friends of the Library at Brown University, the University of Rhode Island and New Leaves Press.

The 2007 Lecture Series was entitled "the passion of paper."

For additional information about the Rhode Island Center for the Book, contact Providence Public Library Community Services Coordinator, Louise Moulton, at 455-8134 or email ribook@provlib.org.