Annual Report 2011 — 2012

Staff, volunteers, artists and teachers — continuing to make a difference for our Providence neighborhoods

Dear Friends,

ank you for four years of support for the Providence Community Library! Together, we have overcome serious, tremendous obstacles during this time, resulting in outstanding successes and, most importantly, fulfillment of our Mission: To provide quality library services to the people of Providence. I take our mission very seriously and it has been my great honor to be a part of the

Providence Community Library and to work with our friends and community to bringimportant and needed services throughout Rhode Island, especially during the economicturmoil our city, neighborhoods and country are facing. Please continue to support PCLas we expand our excellent programs and services to educate and assist Rhode Islandchildren, adults, seniors, small businesses and families for generations to come.

e Providence Community Library family has created a true legacy of overcoming obsta-cles and reaching our goals to provide the best services possible. Last year, through MayorTaveras’s support and your efforts, we concluded the building ownership issue,which willfree us to secure necessary grants and funding for repairs and facility improvements.Additionally, PCL successfully lobbied for and won the prestigious RI Statewide ReferenceResource Center contract to provide scholarly research support throughout the state. Our programs continue to grow and bring pride and accolades to PCL by supportingschools, summer reading, adult literacy, arts, music, film, city and state agencies,economic development, youth programs, clubs, poetry, ESL and families to make us “The Go To Place” in our communities. Another banner year for PCL! With yourcontinued support and the great work by our dedicated staff, I fully expect us to exceedour accomplishments every year, help to lead our communities through these difficulttimes and become a world-class library system woven into the fabric of society.

We are well on our way to realizing that vision. Our work is important…and perpetual. It will benefit many generations well into the future. In accordance with our bylaws andterm limits designed to avoid future pit-falls, my tenure as PCL’s founding President isending. I thank you for your commitment and tremendous dedication and the greatopportunity to work with all of you: our elected officials, community leaders, corporatecitizens, residents, partner organizations, donors and students. ank you PCL staff foryour outstanding efforts and heart-felt support; our wonderful board of directors, andespecially co-founders Patricia Raub (Vice President), Linda Kushner (Secretary), andEllen Schwartz (Treasurer), without whom the Providence Community Library would not exist. Again, It has been my true honor and pleasure to serve our communities witheach of you in such a fantastic effort with such far-reaching positive impact. Yes, there isstill work to do…it is perpetual, but such is the nature of great works. I look forward tocontinued work with all of you as we serve our neighborhoods in exemplary fashion.

With Utmost Respect and Warm Heart,

MARCUS MITCHELLPresident, Board of Directors

LAURA MARLANEExecutive Director

ere’s an interesting quote I stumbled across recently from a noted library supporter. “If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.” For as long as I can remember, librarians have been experts at making a little go a long way. is is espe-cially true during hard economic times. Not only do patrons turn to our resources and services even more, but our notoriously small budgets just seem to get a little bit smaller.

It’s a sad truth that is happening across the country as cities and towns everywhere struggle tokeep going. And, historically, libraries are there; answering patron’s questions, helping them find the information they need, pointing them to the services they are seeking—basically justcontinuing to do what we do every day to help, inform and support the communities we serve.Oh, and just so you know, that quote is from Andrew Carnegie in 1904. e times may change,but some of the challenges stay the same.

At PCL, we face these challenges and continue to strive to further our mission, and here are just a few of the amazing programs that continue to bring us much success!

GED Graduation—In June we celebrated the hard work of twelve dedicated students as theycompleted a year’s worth of study and received their GEDs. I’d like to thank our amazing volun-teer, Hipolito Reyes for his dedication in tutoring our students, and the work of Michelle Novelloand Carolina Briones for making this program such a success!

Summer Reading Program—All nine of our libraries participated in the state wide SummerReading Program again this year, and it was another wonderfully successful program! We’vecontinued to work with the Providence School Department to offer a wide range of activities and opportunities to children in the summer months to keep them reading and learning. And, we are happy to announce that the winner of the big prize—a trip to Disney World—comes from our own Knight Memorial Library!

ere’s one more program I'm excited to mention, even though it actually began this current fiscal year. For the first time in its history the Statewide Reference Resource Center was put out to bid to all libraries in the state, and it was awarded to PCL!

PCL applied for and was awarded two grants by the State to take over both operations and refer-ence services for the SRRC. We’ve only been up and running with this since July 1st, but are excited about exploring innovative ways of providing the services and access that RhodeIslanders need! We have hired a dynamic team of individuals to oversee the operations and work with PCL. In addition to a wide array of online databases and electronic resources, you can live chat with a librarian to get your questions answered in real time!

Libraries are communities, and I can’t think of any library I’ve ever worked in where I’ve felt thatmore deeply than at PCL. e support of the Mayor and the City Council has been nothing butstrong and positive. e help and advice of our extremely supportive Board and our FriendsGroups is nothing short of amazing.

e PCL Board is a coalition of the many constituencies that have a stake in the continuedexistence and vitality of neighborhood libraries in Providence. To ensure adequate repre-sentation of these constituencies, PCL’s By-Laws specify that members are appointed by the Friends organization of each of PCL’s nine libraries, the Mayor, the City Council, theGovernor, and the PCL staff. In addition, up to nine at-large community members areelected by the Board of Directors. e Board elects four of its members to be officers.

Board meetings are held monthly (except for the month of August) and are conducted inaccordance with the requirements of the Open Meeting Law of Rhode Island. e AnnualMeeting takes place in September.

Providence Community LibraryBOARD OF DIRECTORS

Marcus Mitchell PRESIDENT

Patricia Raub vICE PRESIDENT

Linda J. Kushner SECRETARY

Ellen Schwartz TREASURER

Yamil Baez MAYORAL APPOINTEE

David Berman FRIENDS OF ROCHAMBEAU

Christian Caldarone CITY COUNCIL APPOINTEE

Kai Cameron FRIENDS OF SOUTH PROvIDENCE

Elena Chiaradio AT-LARGE

Gonzalo Cuervo MAYORAL STAFF APPOINTEE

Joan Dagle FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON PARK

PCL Founders and Board Officers, from top: 1) President Marcus Mitchell 2) Vice President Patricia Raub3) Secretary Linda Kushner 4) Treasurer Ellen Schwartz

Deborah Del Gais FRIENDS OF MT. PLEASANT

Dale Gorton FRIENDS OF WANSKUCK

Althea Graves FRIENDS OF SMITH HILL

Sister Ann Keefe SSJ AT-LARGE

Matthew Lawrence AT-LARGE

Rochelle Lee CITY COUNCIL APPOINTEE

Mark McKenney GOvERNOR’S APPOINTEE

Sandy Oliviera STAFF REPRESENTATIvE

Deborah Schimberg FRIENDS OF KNIGHT MEMORIAL

Cyndie Wilmot FRIENDS OF OLNEYvILLE

Ken Wise FRIENDS OF FOx POINT

Board of Directors 2011-2012

e origami program has made the greatest impact on our children of all ages (5-14 years of age) here at Knight Memorial Library. Not onlyare the children very interested,

but even some adults have been happily surprised how rewarding it is to create these incredible worksof art out of paper. ere really isn’t any need torecruit participants for this program. Children just flock over to the teen area and start askingquestions. ey love to learn how to create the next cool paper project. Children are alwayslooking forward to seeing Rod come in and whathe’ll be creating for the day…or the following week. Rod always makes it fun for all kids evenwhen it is educational.

—MARIA COTTO, CHILDREN’S LIBRARIAN, KNIGHT MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Pictured above: Mr. Rod Nice, the “cool Origami Guy” with two eager students.

“Origami was fun and I never thought I cando so many things with paper. I ended upworking with Mr. Rod the cool OrigamiGuy. Now I can start to help others at thelibrary enjoy creating origami.”

— YOUTH PATRON, Knight Memorial Library

Latino Programming at PCLFrom PCL’s mission statement: PCL assists people in reaching their personal literacy goalsand enhancing life skills in order to fulfill their responsibilities as parents, citizens and workers.According to the 2010 census, 38.1% of Providence residents are of Hispanic or Latinodescent. is year PCL expanded the ways we met the needs and demands of thisgrowing community. Countless Latino and other patrons have complained over the years that there have notbeen enough open spaces in existing ESL programs in Providence. PCL determined to meetthis important need, even though we were not able to find dedicated funding for a new ESLprogram. We faced this challenge by recruiting a large number of volunteers and trained themto be ESL instructors. Many thanks to the 50+ volunteers who so generously donated theirtime, spirit, and energy. ESL classes began in January, and PCL was able to serve more than250 students!is year also saw PCL’s first ever Spanish-language GED (high school equivalency) class.Twelve students completed the year-long course, enjoyed a graduation celebration at KnightMemorial Library, and went on to take their GED tests at CCRI.Other Spanish language programs that PCL held throughout the year included basiccomputer classes, educational workshops for home day-care providers, book clubs, filmscreenings, and the annual children’s bilingual writing and drawing contest, “Día de losNinos, Día de los libros.”

Youth Educational ProgrammingFrom PCL’s mission statement: PCL serves as an out of school time learning center for children,offering aer-school programs, homework assistance, and early childhood story-times.PCL continued and grew our unified, system-wide out-of-school-time educationalprogramming begun last year. We again offered children throughout the city the opportu-nity to learn comics writing and drawing with the Comics Consortium, poetry and hip-hopcomposition and performance with Poetry/Hip Hop Elements 101, computer technologywith CyberKids, documentary photography, homework help and more!PCL was a very active participant in Mayor Taveras’s Children & Youth Cabinet, especiallyits Summer Learning workgroup. Improved summer learning is one of the three pillars ofthe Cabinet’s Grade Level Reading Campaign. PCL has created the summer reading listsused by the Providence Public Schools, and participation in PCL’s own summer readingprogram doubled from the previous summer. For the youngest patrons Cradle to Crayons is a popular program at each of PCL’s libraries.It is designed to introduce young families to the library in a comfortable setting and todevelop early literacy skills through songs, rhymes, storytelling and play. Library staffmembers offer tips that can be used at home or in child-care settings to encourage an earlyinterest in reading and learning. Community resource specialists attend some sessions toshare information on child development, health and safety.

The Great CheckoutPCL held our third annual gala fundraiser in March, this time at the Rochambeau Library.Central to e Great Checkout was a most unique raffle of rare books - Living Books.Modeled on the newest concept in library services - borrowing people with your library card - the raffle allowed library supporters to “check out” real life experiences with well-known Rhode Island entertainers, scientists, elected officials, historians, visual artists, farmers, and other fascinating people. anks to all those Living Books who donated theirtime and experiences to the evening’s success. And, of course, we are ever grateful to theevent’s generous sponsors – GTECH, Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C., City Kitty Veterinary for Cats, DeLuca & Weizenbaum, and Regency Plaza Apartments.

CYBER KIDScomputer workshops

Pictured above: PCL Latino ProgramCoordinator Carolina Briones withsome of our ESL volunteers.

“An adult patron was trying tofigure out how to insert a videoclip into her Power Point pres-entation she was doing for class.I asked the PC students that arehere doing homework help ifthey wanted to assist the patron. A young man in the 8th grade spoke up and said, ‘I know how to do that. I think we learned that in Cyber Kids!’ He quickly wentover to the patron and showedher how to do it.”

—ALAN GUNTHER, LIBRARY MANAGER,SMITH HILL LIBRARY

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFFLaura Marlane ExECUTIvE DIRECTORSue Gibbs BUSINESS DIRECTORSteve Kumins DEvELOPMENT DIRECTORMichelle Novello PROGRAM COORDINATORCarolina Briones LATINO PROGRAM COORDINATORMaria Melvin HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALISTDavid Dvorchak OFFICE MANAGER

FOX POINT LIBRARYJulie Sabourin LIBRARY MANAGERAnn Schattle CHILDREN’S SPECIALISTSandy Oliviera LIBRARY CLERK

KNIGHT MEMORIAL LIBRARYRod Burkett REGIONAL LIBRARIANCraig Kaspark ADULT SERvICES LIBRARIANMaria Cotto CHILDREN’S LIBRARIANMelissa Rivera CHILDREN’S SPECIALISTChristine Williams CLERK SUPERvISORYiry Pereyra LIBRARY CLERKDonna Woodworth LIBRARY CLERKKarina Veras LIBRARY CLERK

MOUNT PLEASANT LIBRARYDhana Whiteing REGIONAL LIBRARIANKathleen Flaherty ADULT SERvICES LIBRARIANAdam Misturado ADULT SERvICES LIBRARIANGail Stokes CHILDREN’S LIBRARIANCharlene Williams CHILDREN’S SPECIALISTDuongrattha Siv CLERK SUPERvISORCheri Melvin LIBRARY CLERKAnna Parello LIBRARY CLERKFidelia Torrez-Cuadra LIBRARY CLERK

Providence Community Library STAFFOLNEYVILLE LIBRARY

Tom Frawley LIBRARY MANAGER

Antonia Garcia CHILDREN’S SPECIALIST

John Cioci LIBRARY CLERK

ROCHAMBEAU LIBRARY

Tom O’Donnell REGIONAL LIBRARIAN

Cheryl Hunt ADULT SERvICES LIBRARIAN

Andria Tieman ADULT SERvICES LIBRARIAN

Judanne Hamidzada CHILDREN’S LIBRARIAN

Tim McGinn CLERK SUPERvISOR

Bonny Reisman LIBRARY CLERK

Nella Rokicki LIBRARY CLERK

Ayesha ompson LIBRARY CLERK

Edilberta Trejo LIBRARY CLERK

SMITH HILL LIBRARY

Alan Gunther LIBRARY MANAGER

Jennifer Romans CHILDREN’S SPECIALIST

Amy Ferreira LIBRARY CLERK

SOUTH PROVIDENCE LIBRARY

Linda D’Ambra LIBRARY MANAGER

Betty Nunes CHILDREN’S SPECIALIST

Ethel Stewart LIBRARY CLERK

WANSKUCK LIBRARY

Denise Brophy LIBRARY MANAGER

Molly Osborne CHILDREN’S SPECIALIST

Rose Whitely LIBRARY CLERK

WASHINGTON PARK LIBRARY

Lanham Bundy LIBRARY MANAGER

Verenis Polanco CHILDREN’S SPECIALIST

Lyndsy Cioci LIBRARY CLERK

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

David Sok DIRECTOR OF IT

Stephanie SheaWEB / COMPUTER TRAINING

SPECIALIST

MAINTENANCE

Mike Nickerson HEAD OF MAINTENANCE

Luis Garcia MAINTENANCE/DRIvER

Frank Grinchell MAINTENANCE LABORER /

HEAD CUSTODIAN

Nathan Izzi MAINTENANCE WORKER

Moses Lilly MAINTENANCE ASSISTANT

Keith Paiva LIBRARY CUSTODIAN

Doel Sanchez LIBRARY CUSTODIAN

TECHNICAL SERVICES

Deb Furia CATALOG SPECIALIST

Doug Hinman CATALOG LIBRARIAN

Sara Huber LIBRARY CLERK

Cynthia Reed Av TECHNICIAN/CLERK

Donna St. Angelo LIBRARY CLERK

“Having lived the majority of my life in Los Angeles, California, coming toKnight Memorial Library has been a great pleasure. Upon entry, I waswelcomed and received wonderful assistance. I oen compare KnightMemorial Library with other libraries in the Los Angeles area. ere is nocomparison! Your staff is helpful, attentive, and always eager to help! In anage of complaints and anger, I thought they deserved to hear a good word.”

— Letter from a NEIGHBOR AND ENTHUSIASTIC PATRON

Pictured right: Maria Cotto, Children’s

librarian, with two young patrons at Knight Memorial

Library.

GTECH After-School Advantage LabsGTECH's generosity towards PCL continues to astound! Not only was GTECH again the main sponsor of our annual gala fundraiser, but PCL received another Aer-School Advantage Computer Lab -- at Knight Memorial Library. GTECH has now provided PCL withstate-of-the-art computer labs designed specifically for and dedicatedto children at six of our nine libraries. ank you GTECH! Pictured right: photos of the GTECH ribbon cutting ceremony at KnightMemorial. Top: Marcus Mitchell, Angela Romans (Senior Advisor onEducation for the City of Providence) and Councilman Wilbur Jennings;Middle: the new lab; bottom: students perfroming from Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts.

The Comics Consortium GrowsIn 2010 the RI State Council on the Arts (RISCA) gave PCL a grant so that PCL could hold a series of work-shops for pre-teens and teens, to teach them how to create characters, develop a storyboard, and write andillustrate comic books. at fall artist Walker Mettling created the Comics Consortium and began teachingmulti-week courses to Providence youth at five PCL libraries. ese classes have been so popular that theyhave continued to be offered ever since, and for the past two summers Walker has taught Comics BootCamps (classes every day for two weeks) at nearly every PCL library.

e Providence Comics Consortium has published seven issues of the Comics Consortium Showcase.ese volumes include comics drawn by both PCL youth patrons and guest comics artists from around the

United States and Canada. Two of these anthologies were selected as required reading forBrown University's Pre-College Literary Arts Graphic Novels course this summer. Youcan find these editions cateloged and available at each of our libraries!

Walker spoke on the panel “Teaching Comics to Kids”at the ChicagoAlternative ComicsExpo in June and just won a grant from RISCA to teach eighteen comics-making work-shops for children at libraries statewide, the resultant work, along with submissions frominternational comics artists, to be compiled into an anthology that will be available atevery library in the state.

e Comics Consortium continues at PCL and expands statewide! From humble beginnings…

The Year— BY THE NUMBERSNumber of Libraries 9Number of Staff 66Number of Patrons 55,545Library visits 753,041Size of Collection 393,498Total Circulation 478,708Reference transactions 89,369Number of Programs 3,877Program Attendance 54,106

Computers available for public use: as of 06/30/09 133as of 06/30/10 165as of 06/30/11 183as of 06/30/12 198

Public use of library computers 217,909 sessions

COMICSconsortium

Financial InformationSnapshot of the Providence Community Library finances (unaudited) forfiscal year 2011-2012 (July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012)

Use of Resources: $4,892,730

Resources: $4,892,730

PCL collaborates withmany organizations tocreate programs at ournine libraries. For thepast two years, we’vepartnered with e Peace Flag Project to

offer workshops for children and adults tocreate their own flags to express and sharetheir wishes for world peace, in celebrationof the Month of Peace. One outcome ofthis workshop: “We had a 2nd grade boyattend the Peace Flag Project. He hadnever attended a program at the librarybefore, although he frequently checkedbooks out with his mother. At home hehad made a sample of what he wanted hispeace flag to look like. He then broughtthat in and worked diligently throughoutthe workshop. He stayed for the wholeprogram. Later, he told me how much hehad enjoyed himself and wanted to cometo more library programs.”

—JENNIFER ROMANS, CHILDREN’S SPECIALIST,

SMITH HILL LIBRARY

We were walking around Olneyville taking photos when a student remarked with wonder,“I thought all you could do at the library was check out books!”

— JORI KETTEN, Photography Instructor, teaching at PCL with a grant funded by Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

“I was wary of enrolling my son in a photography courseat PCL because he has learning disabilities, some severeenough to oen limit his opportunities to learn in groupsof ‘typical’ learners. I needn’t have worried as he wasbeautifully and skillfully integrated into the group, andthe course content was fun, engaging, informative and,perhaps most important, totally accessible. At the end of the program, my son felt empowered, successful, andeager for more. I can only hope that these remarkableexperiences will continue to be offered to our kids. What a great investment!”

— Letter from happy MOM at FOx POINT LIBRARY

Pictured le: Photo by student MariCarmen taken during the Photography workshop.

$1,000,000+City of Providence

$500,000+State of Rhode Island

$25,000+John and Letitia CarterMetLife FoundationMabel T. Woolley Trust

$10,000+Dexter DonationHybrid FilmsLinda and Harold KushnerJune Rockwell Levy FoundationNordson Corporation FoundationRhode Island House of RepresentativesUnited Way of Rhode Island

$5,000+Elms FoundationFrank B. Hazard General Charity Fund,

Bank of America, TrusteeJoan GelchGTECHJohn Clarke Trust, Bank of America,

N.A., Co-TrusteeMary Dexter Chafee FundRhode Island State Senate

$2,500+Bank Rhode IslandDominion FoundationDunkin' DonutsBarbara and Leon GoldsteinEmma G. Harris Foundation,

Bank of America, N.A., Co-TrusteeAnna and Cyrus HighsmithHarry M., Miriam C. and William C.

Horton Fund, Bank of America, TrusteeProvidence Media, Inc.Providence Rotary Charities FoundationRhode Island State Council on the ArtsRI Council For e HumanitiesSharpe Family FoundationOtto H. York Foundation

$1,000+Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.David BermanBernard Nussbaum Family FoundationBrown UniversityColonial FireworksCornish AssociatesCox Business ServicesFidelity InvestmentsFirst Unitarian ChurchKathrynFislerandShriram KrishnamurthiHome Loan FoundationMarie LangloisSalvatore LaterraMark McKenneyNational Grid

Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau

Roger Williams UniversityDeborah SchimbergTD Bank, N.A.Frederick C. Tanner Memorial FundChristine TownsendAl and Naida Weisberg

$500+BCLIRBlue State Coffee LLCCapital Properties, Inc.City Kitty Veterinary Care For CatsGilbert and Diane ConoverMary and Robert DalyDeLuca & WeizenbaumEnivar Charitable Funde Friendship Fund (Eastside

Marketplace)Jonathan and Ruth FainMary FrappierBerne GreeneElizabeth HollanderSarah and Pierre MorenonSuzanne and Terrence MurrayCalvin Oyere Hon. Joseph and Lianne PaolinoProvidence Performing Arts CenterRegency Plaza AprartmentsPablo and Diane RodriguezDeborah RuggieroJohn Schlinke and Carol LaschPearleandMartin Silverstein FoundationShivan and Jyothi SubramaniamPaula Vogel and Anne Fausto-SterlingKeith and Rosmarie WaldropHarriet Wicke

$250+Belvoir Properties, LLCAnita BergerBlue Cross Blue Shield Of RIAnn ByrneDonna CameronRichard and Inge ChafeeStephen CieslukConway's Bus Service, Inc.Murray and Judith DanforthJane Desforges and Michael WhiteDowntown Providence District

Management AuthorityEdward and Gail FogartyGordon FoxJordan Frank and Laura LevineDeborah FuriaGilbane Building CompanyJay Glasson and Victoria SmithFreda GoldmanGertrude N. and Seebert J. Goldowsky

FoundationLucy HolcombeRobert and Laura HoweGerald and Delight ImmonenKahn, Litwin, Renza & Co., Ltd.KPMG LLP

Peter Kramer and Rachel SchwartzSteve Kumins and Nancy PinnLisa LaDew and Bill MorrisBrooke and Eugene LeeSheila LennonDavid Lichtenstein and Rebecca SilverLifespanMary Lovejoy and John WhistlerSara and Jack McConnellMarjorie and Sattar MemonJustine Metz and Kerrie FisetteMiriam HospitalAnthony and Janet MuriBetty NunesSandy OlivieraJill Pearlman and Stephen O'SheaElizabeth Perkinse Reed CommitteeRenaissance Providence HotelMarcia RiesmanClay Rockefeller and Manya RubinsteinEllen SchwartzGretchen Dow SimpsonJennifer SmithPaul and Joan SorensenSweeney Real Estate & AppraisalKen WiseRichardWongandBarbara ScheppsWongChristina Zarcadoolas

$100+Joan and Richard AbramsPaul Adler and Lori BasilicoRep. Edith AjelloSusan AlarioHamilton and Irene AllenVictor and Gussie BaxtMarjorie BeachRobert Bedick and Marsha MillerBliss PropertiesJoan BoghossianDoug and Jenny BooneKathleen and James BowerDeborah BraytonDonald and Elizabeth BreedBarbara BrosofskyAnna and Andrew BrowderHelen BuchananRod BurkettChristian CaldaroneRonald and Terry CaldaroneSuzanne and David CaneRoger Carlsten and Clare KingRobert ChisholmRep. Maria CiminiRotem Cohen and Leslie GellRichard CohnKathleen Cornely and David MossCaroline CornwellLinda CovingtonWilliam and Hannelore CrossgroveJohn and Dorothea CurtinJoan Dagle and James KittredgeKaren DaigleHadassah and Phillip DavisSergio De Conno and Marge MacDowell

Providence Community Library wishes to thank the hundreds of donors who helped makeour third year possible and successful (gis made from July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012).

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Providence Community Library SUPPORTERS

“ Neighborhood kids and youngadults come to our classes andprograms, hang out by them-selves or with each other in asafe environment, call theirparents, get homework help,and play video and boardgames. ey talk to staff abouttheir report cards, theirhomework, problems andachievements at school, issueswith their friends and families,their birthdays, their haircut,and they show us pictures oftheir pets. And as with theadults who use this library, thisis a place where kids meet upwith friends and make friends.”

—LANHAM BUNDY, LIBRARY MANAGER,

WASHINGTON PARK LIBRARY

Gerald DeSchepperAnn DodgeHelen DonnellyDoris DonovanPaula DonovanCarla DowbenBarbara DreyerWendy DrummKathryn EberstadtRuth EdwardsStuart Einhorn and Carol GoldenNathan EpsteinRobert and Pamela FaulknerSusan FeeleyAllan and Barbara FeldmanBarbara and Walter FeldmanClifford Fields and Angela SimpsonKathie FlorsheimForman Family Charitable TrustRobert and Wendy Fourniereresa FoxGE FoundationSonia GallettiSandra Gandsman and Arnold HermanSarah and Tom GleasonAmy and Bruce GoldsteinSusan and Mark GreenfieldHeather GuideroMarguerite and Spencer HallSteven Hamburg and Sally BarkerJudanne HamidzadaMark HarrimanTimothy HerbertDouglas and Nancy HinmanMarcia and Howard HirschCatherine ImbriglioDavid IsenbergMartin and Betty Ann IsraelitDouglas Itkin and Anisa RaoofBetty JaffeBarry and Ellen JagolinzerMuriel JobbersCoppelia KahnDavid Karoff and Barbara HungerCraig and Marcia KasparkSister Ann KeefeChristine Kennedy and Frank SheaPam Kennedy and Bob McMahonMelinda KnightSusan KorteRichard and Bernice KuminsDiana KushnerCornelia and Robert Lanou

Jane and Raymond LavoieJohn LeoScott LevineJanice LibbyDoris Licht and Ronald BorodOtto Liebmann and Rebekah GardnerChristopher LipscombJudith LitchmanDeirdre LoveckyEllen LynchBeatrice MacCrackenJohn Marion and Karen NgSally Jean MarksLydia MattesonFrank and Elizabeth MauranLouise Mauran and Cal GrotonKaren Mcaninch and Steve MarkovitzMary Ellen McCabeValerie McCainJulie McCoyElizabeth and Philip McMasterBrandon Melton and Carolyn MerrimanKennon Miller and Jennifer NewkirkMarcus and Lynette MitchellLara MoritzRobert and Karen MorrowAmy MosesTim and Kelly NevinsMichael and Tracy NickersonMichelle NovelloGrace Novickomas Oakes and Patricia FullerOlympus Group ManagementJennifer Ondrejkae Origami Bonsai CompanyGordon and Jane ParkerDeborah and Elliot PerlmanSen. Rhoda PerryJudith and Richard PlotzJoan PrescottBarry and Rebecca PrestonMercedes QuevedoHerman RoseWilma RosenDavid and Holly RothemichSharon RoundsKathryn SandersLisa SchachterHarold and Ellen ScheinDaisy Schnepel and Paul EvansJuergen and Anne SchulzDenman and Margaret ScottGeorge and Terry SeidelJonathan Sharlin and Olivia McCulloughJane Sharp and Charles RardinJeremy and Jennifer ShererSantina SienaRuth SimmonsSharon SimpsonSusan SmulyanCouncil President Michael SolomonMary SpeareJerome and Hadassah SteinMichael Stein and Hester KaplanAnn SterlingMatthew StoneChristopher Suchmann and

Mary PendergastMark TracyKatherine and William TrimbleJeffrey and Pamela Vogel

Cynthia WardUla WardKay Warren and Loy CarringtonJoann WatsonLucinda WilmotHarriet and James WrennMyrth York and David GreenSam and Lauren Zurier

$1+Roy and Judith AaronMichael and Roberta AaronsonVirginia AdamsPeter and Susan AllenJoel AlpertWesley and Grace AlpertCarole and Zane AndersonNorma AndersonGeoffrey Athertonomas and Barbara BaconJean BaginskiRussell Bailey and Molly RansburyEd and Priscilla BaileyKathleen BairdKathleen and Tom BanchoffJames Barfoot and Nancy NicholsonJames and Victoria BarnesKatharine BarnesIrwin and Adeline BeckerRoger Belisle and Robert CataldoLionel and Anne BercovitchChristopher and Roberta BickfordEric BilodeauJeanne BirtMurray and Judith BlackadarAndrew and Beverly BlazarStanley BleeckerEdwin and Margaret BogerSheila Bonde and Clark MainesMichael and Alice BonitatiGeorge and Muriel BortsEdward and Anne BozziDerek and Sara BradfordKris and Sam BradnerJohn BreemsDaniel and Lisa BrosofskyErika BrownMark BrownPhyllis BurkeGuy and Bonnie BuzzellDan and Jayne CahillWalter and Josefina CallenderKai CameronPaul and Susan CampbellMaria CaponeElizabeth CaswellJeffrey CavanaughMary ChaffeeAvital and Andrew ChattoPat ChurchCitizens BankCity State Computer Services, Inc.Roger and Beverly ClarkMarie Clarke and Banice WebberAvram and Maxine CohenDaten Cohen and Terri SpissoEnid CohenSerena ConleyKath ConnollyJacquelyn CooperKenneth Corsetti

In-kind ContributorsGTECHe Providence Journal Co.Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Robert Brooks, Esq. Avital Chatto, Esq.

Jay Glasson, Esq.Lynette Labinger, Esq.Trinity BrewhouseEllen Schwartz

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

Amy CraneAnne CullimoreSiobhan CuteLewis and Betty DanaArline DavisBarbara DecesareDeborah Del GaisPaula DelaflorDavid DelayPaola DematteRaymond DettoreElaine DicksteinDavid and Sally DillonAmy and Jerrold DorfmanHelen Drew and Kenneth Payne Carol DrewesDottie DyerRebekah EcksteinJames EgloffCharles and Eleanor ElbaumGregory Elliott and Susan CunninghamJudy and Robert EllisonJames English and Betsy PurintonAllan and Dorothy EricksonWanda EscobedoExxon Mobil FoundationFrank FaltusBarbara FeldmanRichard FleischnerRichard FlinnRobert and Ellen FlorinHelen FlynnFaith FoglePatricia FontesMuriel ForitJeffrey Fox and Jennifer BeckerBob FrederiksenFrances FriedmanCynthia Garcia Coll and John ModellJames and Margaret GardnerRobert GarzilloLawrence and Helene GatesHelene and Joseph GemmaJim and Bridget GershmanDavid Gleicher and Luz Bravo-GleicherMaurice and Yetta GlicksmanLaura Goldberg and Craig MarinRachel Goldberg and Zachary NelsonJane and Lewis GordonCatherine GormanDale GortonAlthea and Charles GravesRobert and Emily GreenFlora GreenanJudith and Samuel GreenblattFrederick and Olivia GuggenheimJohn HaffertyJames and Diane HardyDaniel HarropDorothy HartnettClaudia and Eric HaugenBarrett and Mary HazeltineElaine HeebnerKatherine HegedusZoltan and Kathryn HegedusDan and Sharon HendriksenJoseph Hoefferle and Sabrina WitherbyHarriet HolbrookAndrew HorwitzSusan and George HradilSiobhan Humphries

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