Please join the Smith Hill Friends Group for our Staff Appreciation Day Celebration.

The party will be June 7, 2010, from 4:15 – 5:45  at The Smith Hill Library, Where else?

Our Staff members are intelligent, informative,supportive, caring and fun!!

Let’s show Alan, Amy, Jennifer and Joey how much we appreciate all that they do to make our trips to the Smith Hill Library pleasant and informative journeys! There will be Food, Games, Prizes, Music and More…

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All Providence Library branches will be celebrating the transfer of management to the Providence Community Library. Please come out and support this monumental shift in focus for the branch system. Many people have worked tirelessly on this transition and it is time to celebrate!  The new PCL website is http://provcomlib.org.

Smith Hill’s local celebration is Wednesday, July 1

4-7 pm at the Candace St. Library.

All are welcome!

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Monday’s Providence Community Library press conference at city hall went very well. People from over two dozen community organizations were on hand to listen and speak, and NINE City Councilors participated. For a slide show on the press conference, please click here. The ProJo covered the conference in Tuesday’s paper (see below), and the story was picked up by the Los Angles Times book blog, Jacket Copy.

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Smith Hill Branch Library is one of five Providence branches threatened with closure in Providence Public Library’s new sustainability Plan. The following includes an open letter from the Library Reform Group and a Providence Journal article printed today, December 19, 2009. For information about how to get involved in efforts to save the Smith Hill Branch please see the Library Friends Page.

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