Rhode Island Library Information Network for Kids: Welcome

RILINK's mission is to foster innovative learning and creative research in school libraries through partnerships and resource sharing for student success.

serves over 70% of Rhode Island K-12 students.

Members include:

• 119 elementary schools
• 4 elementary/middle schools
• 6 K-12 schools
• 39 middle/jr. high schools
• 6 middle/high schools and
• 31 high schools

- a total of 205 members in 35 school districts as of July 2018, plus the Family Literacy Center.

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RILINK encourages members and vendors to support the Narragansett Education Foundation's RI TeacherFest 2019. We will update you as more details develop.

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RICAT was updated to Destiny 16.0 on July 23. The newest features include

• The Lexile Reading Program Service has been updated to ensure only current Lexile measures appear in Search Results and Title Details. 
• Reviews in Destiny Classic may now be up to 2000 characters long.
• ​Spine labels ( Zebra 4000T-83258)  for the Zebra TLP 2824 PLUS printer are now  available.
• Cover images can now be added to each title when running Current Checkouts/Fines- Reports and Notices.  The Cover image checkbox is the default for reports; for notices, it must be selected.

Please watch for updates to the RILINK list and newsletter as Follett is planning to roll out changes to 16.0 throughout the 2018-19 school year.

For complete details about the new release visit 

​Check out features in previous releases at