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Tea Party: Immigrant Voices

September 26 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
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Teen Maker Workshop: Intro to Laser Cutting

September 26 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
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Tea Party: Immigrant Voices

September 26 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
Horror Writing Short Fiction

Bumps in the Night: Writing Horror Short Fiction with Victoria Dalpe

September 26 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
Coffee & Coloring

Coffee & Coloring

September 29 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
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Movie Night

September 29 @ 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
SPR EGL - Friends of South Providence Library

Friends Group Meeting

October 2 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
Reading Between The Blinds

Reading Between The Blinds: A True Crime Discussion Group

October 3 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
Coffee & Coloring

Coffee & Coloring

October 6 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
Coffee & Coloring

Coffee & Coloring

October 13 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
TikTok Tuesdays - Monthly DIY Arts & Crafts Program for Adults!

TikTok Tuesdays – Monthly DIY Arts & Crafts Program for Adults!

October 17 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
Coffee & Coloring

Coffee & Coloring

October 20 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
Coffee & Coloring

Coffee & Coloring

October 27 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
Coffee & Coloring

Coffee & Coloring

November 3 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States
SPR EGL - Friends of South Providence Library

Friends Group Meeting

November 6 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905 United States

South Providence Library At A Glance

Today
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Address:

441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02905

Phone:

(401) 467-2619

Fax number:

(401) 223-0339

Hours:

Monday
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday
1:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Wednesday
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Friday
1:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
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Services Available:

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Tue 26
September 26 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Event Series Tea Party: Immigrant Voices

Tea Party: Immigrant Voices

South Providence Library - Main Level 441 Prairie Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

Tea Party: Immigrant Voices Welcome to share your story as an immigrant in this country, and listen to others.

Tue 26
September 26 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Event Series Teen Maker Workshop: Intro to Laser Cutting

Teen Maker Workshop: Intro to Laser Cutting

South Providence Library - Community Room 441 Prairie Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

In this two-part workshop (September 19 and 26), learn the basics of preparing a design file in the computer program Inkscape to upload to a laser cutter.  We will have […]

Tue 26
September 26 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Event Series Tea Party: Immigrant Voices

Tea Party: Immigrant Voices

South Providence Library - Main Level 441 Prairie Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

Tea Party: Immigrant Voices Welcome to share your story as an immigrant in this country, and listen to others.

Tue 26
Horror Writing Short Fiction
September 26 @ 10:00 pm - 11:30 pm Event Series Bumps in the Night: Writing Horror Short Fiction with Victoria Dalpe

Bumps in the Night: Writing Horror Short Fiction with Victoria Dalpe

South Providence Library - Community Room 441 Prairie Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

Do you like Scary Stories? Do you like writing them? In this 4-week writing course, we invite writers of all levels to get scary. Each week, we will explore various […]

Fri 29
Coffee & Coloring
September 29 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Event Series Coffee & Coloring

Coffee & Coloring

South Providence Library - Adult Area 441 Prairie Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

Drop in for a cup of coffee from our Keurig (or bring your own!) and relax while you color!

Fri 29
September 29 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Movie Night

South Providence Library - Community Room 441 Prairie Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

Movie Night Movie COCO Popcorn and limonade for all attendees  

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South Providence Library - Windowed Youth Area
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Staff

Emily LeMay, Teen/Adult Services Librarian

Emily LeMay
Library Manager
401-467-2619
elemay@clpvd.org

Edilberta Trejo, Youth Services Specialist

Edilberta Trejo
Youth Services Specialist
401-467-2619
etrejo@clpvd.org

Jessica Ramos, Circulation Clerk

Jessica Ramos
Circulation Clerk
401-467-2619
jramos@clpvd.org

History

This library began as a small community library organized by the South Providence Community Club in 1923 and housed in a small room at the Oxford Street Grammar school. Soon afterward, it became part of PPL and moved to the Sixth Ward Room on Burnside Street. In 1929, PPL erected a new building for the library on Prairie Avenue near Oxford Street that opened in January of 1930 on property deeded to Providence Public Library.Check Journal article on April 16, 1929: 3. See also "Branch to Open" in Journal, January 19, 1930: 12. See Books for All, Volume 2, No. 9 (November 1927): 347-48. With the opening of the new library building in 1930, the community finally had a substantial library with a separate circulation room, an adult reading room, a children's reading room, and a reference room, as well as shelving for 12,000 books. Like Wanskuck Library, the building was designed by Clark & Howe. The general contractor was C. K. Rathbone."Library Branch Opens Tomorrow," Providence Journal (January 19, 1930): 12. In 2003, PPL undertook a $3.2 million renovation and expansion of the now-seventy-year-old library building, restoring the exterior, doubling the space, installing an elevator, and erecting a glass entryway, among other changes. Despite widespread poverty in the South Providence community, local residents succeeded in raising $75,000 toward the cost of the renovation.Karen A. Davis, “Library Makeover,” Providence Journal, (August 29, 2003): C.01. PPL was able to pay for part of the costs of the project through the state's Public Library Construction Reimbursement Program, which pays for up to 50% of the construction or capital improvement costs for Rhode Island's public libraries. For South Providence's makeover, the state agreed to reimburse PPL nearly $1 million (just over 31% of the total), in yearly installments over a twenty-year period ending in 2024.Any funding provided by the state's Public Library Construction Reimbursement Program is provided with the understand that "the facility to be constructed under this agreement will give public library services which are free and without discrimination and that the facility will continue to be used to provide such services unless its use for another purpose is approved by the Office of Library and Information Services."

http://www.olis.ri.gov/grants/construction/regulations/appendix_h.php
See also: Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Service website, http://www.olis.ri.gov/grants/construction/planning/funding.php and http://www.olis.ri.gov/grants/construction/conproj.php.

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