Guest Speaker

    

          The other day in class Karisa Tashjian from Providence Public Library came and talked to the class about the Providence Public Library. Also, what they provided for everyone between youth and for adults too. She is the Education Director of the library. She sounds like she is very dedicated to the youth that she works with and creating classes for adults/youth. She supports birth through adults in hope for them to explore accessible learning opportunities. She created programs for everyone to learn or to enjoy the library that services that have been created. An example was the free classes you can sign up for like coding or knitting. These different programs or class are funded by 21^st-century programs and other funders too.

          21st century and others have funded some or all of the programs. She talked about other types of funds that the program receives. This connects to grants and funding in this class.

          There was one thing that she made, and it really resonated with me was that she creates the learning lounge. She said this has been creating in other states and it showed me how it has impacted everyone. Without the different programs she is running, there wouldn’t be anyone interested in the Providence Public Libraries and others. 

          I like that she had a PowerPoint but did not go to the PowerPoint. The conversations went off topic and she was more than happy to allow that to happen. She also had a few handouts that were talked about with statistics about funding, different programs, and an organizational chart.