{"id":13,"date":"2023-05-11T15:49:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T15:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/129.121.84.216\/wordpress\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:11:18","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ricspecialcollections.org\/specialcollections\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>RIC Special Collections Department was created in 1974 and established in its present location, Adams Library 413-416, in 1978. In 1982, the\u00a0reading room was dedicated in honor of Rhode Island College Professors Ronald Ballinger (History) and Martha Bacon Ballinger (English). Most of the books in Special Collections are listed in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.ric.edu\/\">Adams Library Catalog<\/a>. Finding aids and collection descriptions are available to help find other materials. Some of these can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riamco.org\/search?&amp;rows=10&amp;fq=institution_s|Rhode+Island+College+Special+Collections\">Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online<\/a>. Assistance and reference services are available by appointment only. Materials in Special Collections do not circulate. However, loans to other institutions can be made on a case-by-case basis with the approval of the Special Collections Librarian and the Director of the Library.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIC Special Collections Department was created in 1974 and established in its present location, Adams Library 413-416, in 1978. In 1982, the\u00a0reading room was dedicated in honor of Rhode Island College Professors Ronald Ballinger (History) and Martha Bacon Ballinger (English). Most of the books in Special Collections are listed in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ricspecialcollections.org\/specialcollections\/about-us\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ricspecialcollections.org\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ricspecialcollections.org\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ricspecialcollections.org\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ricspecialcollections.org\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ricspecialcollections.org\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ricspecialcollections.org\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/www.ricspecialcollections.org\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ricspecialcollections.org\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}