Nearly half of Rhode Island’s 48 public libraries are 501(c)(3) nonprofits, and for many of them, that status is tied to 19th-century education reform efforts that swept both rural and urban ...

In early October, a new exhibition titled “‘Everywhere I Go’: Sketchbooks from Cyrus Highsmith” opened on the third floor of the Providence Public Library at the Joan T. Boghossian Gallery. The ...