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Annual Meeting
Monday, May 18 12:30 -2:00 pm, Adams Library Fortes Room
The Friends of Adams Library will hold its Annual meeting Monday, May 18th at 12:30 in the Fortes Room of Adams Library. All are invited.
Our guest speaker at this year's annual meeting will be award winning young adult author, Kelly Easton. She is the ASTAL Writer in Residence and the founding faculty member of the ASTAL summer institute. She has received a number of awards for her fiction including Life History of a Star, Walking on Air, Aftershock, and To be Mona. Kelly has an MFA in playwriting, resides in Jamestown, RI, and is an adjunct in the English Department at RIC.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Friends of the James P. Adams Library
The Friends of the James P. Adams Library is an organization founded in 1998 by a group of concerned Rhode Island College faculty, staff and administrators. The Friends’ organization sponsors author lectures, visits significant local libraries and museums, arranges library receptions and book sales, and makes substantial donations for the purchase of books and other items needed by the library. |
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 We are fortunate at Rhode Island College to have the James P. Adams Library, an outstanding facility that plays a tremendous role in our college academic, intellectual and cultural endeavors. In 1913 Thomas Edison predicted that "books will soon be obsolete in the schools as it is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture." Similar statements are heard today as we move further into the electronic age and more information becomes available online. Still, the library will remain the core of college life. It will be the resource center for information and continue to attract the support of members of our community.
Purpose
- To focus attention on the Library;
- To stimulate the use of its resources and services;
- To support the Library by helping to obtain acquisitions, gifts, endowments, and bequests;
- To promote its function as resource center for College and community activities;
- To influence the College in its relationship with the Library.
The entire community is encouraged to attend any of our events. Show your support for the library by joining the Friends. Membership fees are tax deductible. |
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| How to Join |
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The Friends of the James P. Adams Library membership application is available in both a downloadable PDF and MS Word Form. |
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Directions for MS Word Form: |
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Click here to open the MS Word Form which can be filled out using your MS Word Program, then print and remit (with payment) to James P. Adams Library Director's Office, c/o Ellen Morais. |
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Directions for PDF: |
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Download the PDF and print then remit (with payment) to James P. Adams Library Director's Office, c/o Ellen Morais. You must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. Click here to download it for free. |
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| Schedule of Events
for 2008-2009 |
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September 18, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Reception: Friends of the Library welcome the new Library Director, Hedi BenAicha.
Light refreshments will be served.
Fortes Room (Adams 409) |
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September 25, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Lecture: “Owen Jones: Achievement and Influence.” Presented by Kresten Jespersen, Library Faculty Member. Light refreshments will be served.
Fortes Room (Adams 409) |
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October 16, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Cultural Heritage Celebration honoring Joseph Muratore
Lecture: “The Italian American Experience in Rhode Island, 1880-1960.” Presented by Joseph Muratore, long-time friend of the Library and member of the Friends of the Library Executive Board.
Fortes Room (Adams 409) |
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October 30, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Faculty Research Presentations
“Medicinal Plants Used by Capuchin Monkeys” Mary Baker, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
“A.L.L.I.E.D. Across Our Differences: Reaching and Teaching Students from Underrepresented Groups at Rhode Island College”
Dr. Lesley Bogad, Associate Professor, Educational Studies and Women's Studies, with Alin Bennett, Ibilolia Holder, Juanita Montes de Oca and Chris Susi
Alger 110 |
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November 12, 2008, 12:30-2:00 pm
Lecture: “The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear (prescription) Shades.” Presented by Joseph Zornado, Professor of English (pertaining to his new novel, 2050 Volume One--Gods of Little Earth)
Fortes Room (Adams 409) |
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December 10, 2008, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Holiday Sale. Start your holiday shopping with us!
Adams Library Lobby |
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| Board of Directors 2009-2010 |
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Jean Brown, President
Robert Cvornyek, Vice President
Dena Janson, Secretary
Fred Harrop, Treasurer
Hedi BenAicha (ex-officio)
Sharon Giacobbi
Dolores Grant
Robert Kelly
Meradith McMunn (past president)
Ellen Morais
Joseph Muratore (honorary director)
Richard Olsen (honorary ex-officio)
Debra Thomson
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Membership: Sharon Giacobbi |
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| Contact Us |
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Professor Jean E. Brown
English Department
Rhode Island College
Providence, Rhode Island 02908
jebrown@ric.edu
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