AskRI.org

Rhode Island’s Statewide Reference Resource Center - your source for answers and a whole lot more.

[contrarylibrarian]

[ask-ri]

101 years ago today, a skeleton believed to be an early human ancestor, the Piltdown Man, was found to be a hoax made of orangutan and human bones. 

[thelibrarybug]

Public Libraries Are Better Than Congress, Baseball, and Apple Pie, Say Americans

Public approval polls reveal the amazing truth!

Better. Than. Apple. Pie.

[tutorblog]

You can’t live without your phone. It’s the first thing you look at when you wake up in the morning, and the last thing you check before collapsing in bed at night.

But as much as you rely on your phone, are you really getting the most out of it? Go beyond WhatsApp and…

[radondoran]

[missoulapubliclibrary]

The Scooby Gang knows what’s up.

[ask-ri]

It's like, the anti-Mystery Machine.

[ask-ri]

Happy 100th, Albert Camus! We're sure that everything would seem far less absurd if you had actually spent some time looking up answers with AskRI, just saying.

[fakemikemitchell]

[ask-ri]

Bob Ross geeks happy little clouds.

[ask-ri]

Today in 1957, Sputnik 1 is launched by the Soviet Union and becomes the first artificial satellite in space, and broke new ground in space-themed sandwiches. 

[fuckyeahrhodeisland]

Let’s make this happen.

[bersabea]

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”

— David Foster Wallace (via bersabea)

[explore-blog]

A public library keeps no intentional secrets about its mechanisms; a search engine keeps many.

Clive Thompson on how the internet Is making us smarter (via explore-blog)

[amaecying]

Google like a boss!

[wnycradiolab]

200 Curious Facts, illustrated for Atlas Obscura by Michelle Enemark.  There are lots lots lots more.

[ask-ri]

Too many beautiful facts to HANDLE

[webbys]

Why do whales jump? Why are witches green?

A collage of some of the most bizarre questions found on Google auto complete. 

[ask-ri]

This is why AskRI exists.

[shipwrecktrain]

Suffragette bars look rad.

[yourathenaeum]

There’s no shortage of things to do in Providence this weekend! Even if you don’t have tickets to Necronomicon, the conference website offers a list of Lovecraftian events open to the public. Tomorrow night you can experience our city’s beloved Waterfire - August 24th is a full lighting...

[ask-ri]

Chill out with your tentacles and gills out!

[night-vale-public-library]

Librarians?? MORE LIKE liBEARians!!

We cannot confirm or deny that this is what Librarians look like, but it did make us laugh. Thank you citizen.

[ask-ri]

This is the real reason our librarians don't go face to face with the public.