Providence artist Jen Corace designed the bookplate for donated books.
The Friends of Knight Memorial Library on Elmwood Avenue in Providence are asking for donations during National Library Month.
“Celebrate the extraordinary bounty that are our libraries and help get these requested books on the shelves at Knight Memorial Library,” said the group.
“Each book that you donate will get a bookplate with your name or your honoree! Just click here to access The Mrs. Shaw s Fund,” said the Friends of the library. “The Mrs. Shaw s Fund got 75 books for the library in 2020. Help celebrate National Library Month by donating now and help us double that number this month!”
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As we close out the last week of turbulent 2020, there are 15 boxes stacked precariously on a couch in the small living room of this house. There are another 20 or so identical boxes crammed floor-to-ceiling in a dark corner of the basement. All of them contain what I refer to grandiosely as “my papers.”By that I mean a lifetime’s accumulation of letters, newspaper clippings, reporter’s notebooks, photocopied articles, three-ring binders, file folders, photographs, ID cards and driver’s licenses, magazines and journals (Gramophone, The Armchair Detective, Studies in Bibliography), drafts of short stories and poems and even a few elementary school compositions and college essays. Everything has been stashed away higgledy-piggledy, a system that I’ve been known to rationalize by murmuring a line from poet Wallace Stevens: “A great disorder is an order.”