Archive for January, 2009
GIA 2010
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Last April, I wrote, “We are all facing another difficult budget year. I know it is of little comfort, but RI is not at all alone. . . .” Little did I know that I would be posting the same message this year, albeit with a little more intensity. Once again this year, the trouble […]
In Memoriam Senator Claiborne Pell
Friday, January 2nd, 2009One of the special things about having come to the state of Rhode Island as a young librarian in 1979 was to have come to the state of Senator Claiborne Pell. Senator Pell’s name was already virtually synonymous with our government’s role in the kind of cultural phenomena that libraries comprise. The Arts. . .the […]