By Kate Bramson
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Unemployed Rhode Islanders have new options for accessing computers around the state because the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training is using federal grant money to put as many as 30 specially formatted computers into libraries.
The DLT is partnering with the Office of Library and Information Services and the RI Library Association to provide computers that connect to the state's online unemployment insurance claims-filing system and EmployRI.org, a virtual career center.
The computers will be in the following 15 libraries:
- Central Falls;
- Cranston (2 computers);
- East Providence;
- Greenville;
- Harmony;
- Jesse M. Smith Memorial Library (Burrillville);
- Newport;
- Pawtucket (2 computers);
- Providence;
- Providence Community Library/Mt. Pleasant;
- South Kingstown;
- Warwick;
- Westerly (2 computers);
- West Warwick; and
- Woonsocket.