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Spotlighting collections and services at Providence Public Library.

New on Exhibit - Hurricane Season
Submitted by kwells on Saturday June 15, 2013

Hurricane season on the east coast started on June 1st.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) is predicting an active

exhibits, hurricanes, Rhode Island Collection, Rhode Island history
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Summer days, summer nights, summer READING...
Submitted by kbullard on Friday June 14, 2013

Summer Reading. Does any term conjure up more pleasant images?  Soft breezes, iced tea (or perhaps a Long Island iced tea) by your side, a cool, comfortable spot and a great read ahead of you. We even have a name

reading habits, summer reading
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PMM @ 50
Submitted by jgoffin on Wednesday June 12, 2013

Fifty years ago in London the International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition included an ambitious exhibition on the influence that the invention of the printing press had on the 500 years of human history that followed. The

history, Printing
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Eating like a Local: Clam Chowder and Clam Cakes
Submitted by kwells on Wednesday June 05, 2013

Full disclosure readers - I'm not a Rhode Island native.  I grew up on the south shore of Massachusetts.  Despite many day trips to Providence and Rhode Island beaches during my youth and the fact that I have made Rhode Island my recent

clam chowder, Food, recipes, restaurants, Rhode Island Collection
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Steps You Can Take TODAY to Improve Your Computing Experience (Part I)
Submitted by bleveillee on Monday June 03, 2013

 

Best Practices, computers, Technology, Tips
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Historic Book Person of the Week #21: John Boydell & John Boydell
Submitted by jgoffin on Wednesday May 29, 2013

There are good-engraving days...

special collections
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What's in Your Attic?
Submitted by dgregory on Wednesday May 29, 2013

In a recent CNN article it was reported that an Apple 1 Computer, one of only six remaining original desktop computers, sold for $671,000.  This got me thinking…

Apple Computers, Collectible Computers, collecting, Commodore, ebay, steve jobs, TI, Vintage Computers
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