Who are the Friends of Rochambeau?
A group of caring individuals, families, and businesses dedicated to the support of the Rochambeau Library Branch... its facility, programs, services, resources, and the many people it serves. Learn more about the Friends of Rochambeau
The Friends of Rochambeau want to thank everyone who helped us serve our library and our community last year, as well as to all of you who will lend a hand during the year ahead – when you shop our sales, volunteer for events, donate books or other gifts, you help us promote the library’s mission in a BIG way.
Thank You for valuing the library and for ensuring we can meet the information and literacy needs of all in our community!
Start or renew a membership with the Friends for just $25 annually – it’s part of how we raise over $13,000 every year for collections, programming, and other expenses at our neighborhood location of PCL. You’ll join hundreds of your neighbors in saying “YES” to the community library!
Our Brand New Tote Bags Have Arrived @ Rochambeau Friends!
By popular demand from our book sale patrons and library users alike, the Friends of Rochambeau is happy to offer medium-duty, fabric book totes for sale to all!
Shopping one of our BIG sales on a “Fill-a-Bag for a Fiver” day? These totes can hold more than a large brown paper grocery bag, and have longer, more durable handles with reinforced stitching down the side!
After the sale is over, you will have a very handsome tote for lunches, grocery runs, or picnic blankets, featuring our BRAND NEW #ROC Friends Logo! Purchase yours today from the Friends – we have priced them as low as we can at only $2 apiece, or 3 bags for $5.50. Email us for availability or come to our next mini- or pop-up book sale for more info! All proceeds go towards supporting our library’s mission in our community.
Friends of Rochambeau Library is a 501(c)3 nonprofit supporting our neighborhood location of the PCL system in Providence, RI. Need a receipt for your 2018 gift? Email us today.
The BIG Fall Book Sale is BACK, at Rochambeau Library!
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Over 15,000 books in 50+ genres including special collections of Astronomy, Archaeology, Anthropology, and Science selling for $1, and 50¢ for children’s books. View the whole list of rare books here, and check the “Book Sale” tab in the top right of this page for more info and photos.
All materials have been donated by members of our community. Proceeds of the sale help support programs, collections, and more at Rochambeau neighborhood library and the Providence Community Library system. Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers and of course, to all of you shoppers!
Location: Rochambeau Library, 708 Hope Street, Providence 02906
Dates:
Dealer’s Night ($30 entry) is Monday October 29th 4-8PM
Friend’s Night is Tuesday October 30th 4-8PM – join at the door!
Open to the Public:
Wed, Oct 31st 10AM-5:30,
Thu, Nov 1st 1-8PM,
Fri and Sat Nov 2nd and 3rd 1-5PM are ‘Fill-a-bag for $5’!
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The Friends of Rochambeau is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization supporting the work of our neighborhood location of PCL in our community. Why not become a Friend today? See the “Join the Friends” link just below our masthead at the top of this page!
The Friends will be helping to bring the following programming to our community in the month ahead:
- For new and young adults who want to learn more about Tech, the
- Tableau Workshop for Beginners (learn software to create graphics from data) meets on Tuesday evenings,
- Learn to Code: A Beginner’s Series also meets on Tuesday evenings and
- CareerDevs Code Night (Providence’s own computer science academy) meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. (Free)
- Also, Rochambeau has several language learning opportunities each week:
- English for Speakers of Other Languages (Tuesday mornings),
- Spanish Language (beginner and intermediate – 3 classes) and
- Italian Conversation with Alessandro (meets Thursday afternoons). (Free)
- Dr. Michael Fine will be presenting a book talk on his latest, Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy—All at the Same Time, on Thursday, October 4th at 7pm.
- Look for the Zero Waste Providence Reusable Bag Swap bin at Rochambeau Library. It is part of a pilot project through Zero Waste Providence to encourage Providence residents to use reusable bags.
The Friends of Rochambeau Library subsidized a Youth Hip Hop Arts Education series at Vincent Brown Rec Center – every Monday and Tuesday, young adults have been meeting to explore the disciplines related to hip hop poetry, music and art. The weekly program has been catered generously by the following pizza places in the Mt Hope neighborhood:
- Piemonte Pizza
- Hope Street Pizza
- Pizza Gourmet
- Flatbread Pizza Co.
- Minerva’s Pizzeria
- Domino’s Pizza on North Main
This programming is also funded in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and private funders.
Friends of Rochambeau Library invite all of our members to share this youth arts ed opportunity with anyone in your network.
The Friends of Rochambeau worked with Providence Parks Department and Partnership for Providence Parks to install three new Little Free Libraries! Here are two….
Billy Taylor Park on Camp St
Sessions Street Garden and Park
Registration Plates Make Them Official!
Each has a registration plaque in Spanish for increased access. They’re cute! and they are located on the world map of LFLs, viewable at https://littlefreelibrary.secure.force.com/mapPage
Little Free Libraries are great ways to share literacy and a love of reading with all the people in our service areas. Friends occasionally bring titles to the boxes, but the neighborhoods surrounding them have already started to share and share alike! Stop by your nearest box today!
Fri and Sat SEPT 14 + 15 1-5pm
1-2 PM on Friday is reserved for Members of Friends of Rochambeau Library Ltd. Join at the door !!
browse our amazing selection of vinyl, CDs and LPs!
Location: Rochambeau location of Providence Community Library
708 Hope Street, Providence RI
Pricing: CDs DVDs LPs $1-2 Some vinyl priced higher.
All proceeds benefit programs & collections at Rochambeau Community Library
Sponsored by the FRIENDS OF ROCHAMBEAU LIBRARY which is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization supporting the work of our library in our community. Why not become a Friend today? See the “Join the Friends” link just below our masthead at the top of this page! Find us on Social: fb.com/friendsofrochambeau 
@friendsofrochambeau #ROC #PCL
or sign up for our e-newsletter to stay in contact.
Join Us! for our Annual Meeting on the 1st Monday in June!
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For more information about the Annual Meeting
The Friends of Rochambeau is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization supporting the work of our library in our community. Why not become a Friend today? See the “Join the Friends” link just below our masthead at the top of this page! You can also find us on Social Media or sign up for our e-newsletter to stay in contact.
Hundreds of shoppers visited us to browse and buy 15,000- 20,000 gently used and new books, most priced at $1.
Mary Green, Friend of Rochambeau, offered a great Special Collection of new poetry books – over 50 poets represented – and had multiple copies of their works.
The Spring 2018 book sale brought in several thousand dollars and this will be spent directly on Collections and Programming at your community library. Without you all shopping these sales, our neighborhood would be about $15k less well provided for each year. Thank you for taking care of all of the readers and library users in our neighborhood!
Thanks to our donors who have donated these books over the past 6 months.
Even more THANKS are due to our indefatigable sorters who get the donated books ready for the sales, and all the volunteers who help run these twice yearly sales.
The Friends of Rochambeau is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization supporting the work of our library in our community. Why not become a Friend today? See the “Join the Friends” link just below our masthead at the top of this page! You can also find us on Social Media or sign up for our e-newsletter to stay in contact.
The City Public Panel Discussion
March 22, at #ROC the Friends host three members of City Council for a panel discussion, treating the theme, “How DOES the City work?”
Download the press release here.
Our guests for the evening will be the Honorable Nirva LaFortune, of Ward 3 in Providence; Nicholas J. Narducci, Jr., of Ward 4; and Samuel D. Zurier, of Ward 2. The panel will be moderated by Ms. Joan Retsinas of the RI Chapter of the League of Women Voters.
The panel will have a conversation focused around their roles as they have touched on a few areas of most import to our residents: public works, social welfare, public safety, and services. The Council members will have a half-hour discussion and then will field up to four questions taken from the audience. Audience members will have a chance to submit questions in writing during the event. The program will conclude with a short time for rebuttals and final remarks.
The three Council members are very gracious to treat these topics in such an open forum. It our hope that the panel discussion format will lead to lively, revealing conversation. Residents will have a clearer answer to the question “How does our City work?”
The City Speaker series is brought to you by the Friends of Rochambeau Library, and provides opportunities for conversations with our fellow citizens on the frontlines of government here in Providence, Rhode Island.
The Friends of Rochambeau is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization supporting the work of our library in our community. Why not become a Friend today? See the “Join the Friends” link just below our masthead at the top of this page!
