{"id":5450,"date":"2016-04-16T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harrington.uri.edu\/?p=5450"},"modified":"2016-04-16T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T19:57:20","slug":"cranston-high-school-east-awarded-library-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/news\/2016\/04\/16\/cranston-high-school-east-awarded-library-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Cranston High School East Awarded Library of the Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kingston, RI<br \/>\nApril 16, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Librarian Heidi Blais accepted the \u201cLibrary of the Year\u201d award for Cranston High School East at the URI Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Annual Gathering on April 16, 2016. This honor is awarded to a Rhode Island Library that exemplifies innovation and service, and contributes in exceptional ways to its community and the state. Senator Jack Reed, and URI Deans, Faculty, and students, as well as fellow Rhode Island librarians celebrated Blais\u2019 achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Heidi Blais was introduced by Dr. Cheryl McCarthy, Professor and School Library Media Coordinator for GSLIS. Dr. McCarthy highlighted a number of Blais\u2019 accomplishments, from her student volunteer program to partnerships with ESL teachers. While Blais has taught in Cranston for twenty years, she has been at Cranston High School East for the last five, and is credited with transforming the library and the school through her practice. In addition to this award, Blais was also awarded Teacher of the Year for the Cranston School Department in 2014. Congratulations to Librarian Heidi Blais and Cranston High School East for winning \u201cLibrary of the Year\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>University of Rhode Island<br \/>\nGraduate School of Library and Information Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Librarian Heidi Blais accepted the \u201cLibrary of the Year\u201d award for Cranston High School East at the URI Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Annual Gathering on April 16, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}