Welcome to the FAQ page - RILINK

Call Dorothy Frechette, RILINK’s Executive Director, at (401) 245-4998, extension 320, or send email to rilinkride [dot] ri [dot] net. For more information, check out our web site at www.rilink.org.

RILINK annual dues are based on student enrollment, $1.50 per student, with a maximum of $1,500 and a minimum of $500 for each individual school library member. An entire school district may join as a group at the rate of $1.00 per student.

The major benefit is increased access to books and information for your students and teachers. As of March 2006 sixty-four RILINK school libraries are sharing more than 500,000 books and other materials, with access to millions more through their membership in the statewide library network. RILINK member school libraries also get significant discounts on library software and for subscriptions to online full-text databases and other services. Schools can also join our RICAT system, a web-based shared system for school libraries, similar to the academic (HELIN, InRHODE) and public library (CLAN) systems in Rhode Island.

Through their membership in RILINK, school libraries cooperate to share their books and other materials. Using their combined catalog on the web at www.rilink.org, RILINK members can: *Borrow books for students and teachers, statewide and beyond, for curriculum enhancement, research, reading circles, and enrichment *Make their library catalogs available to parents, students, and teachers on the World Wide Web, from their homes *Provide subject-based, K-12 appropriate access to the other resources on the World Wide Web.