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Join us for this year's Summer Reading! It's fun for all ages and we have so much happening this year at Richmond Public Library. We have events, prizes, and partnerships, and a community goal of 100,000 minutes of reading we are hoping to set with your help! Visit our Summer Reading page to learn about all that's happening and how to get started.
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Virginia State Holiday As of October 2020, Juneteenth is a permanent statewide holiday in Virginia. Virginians, like others across America will celebrate in various ways ranging from parades, dancing, visiting historical sites, to barbecues. Federal Holiday House of Representatives voted 415-14 to make Juneteenth (June 19th) a federal holiday. This followed the Senate’s unanimous passage of a resolution on the day before to establish June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day. Wednesday night “The White...
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Looking for some last minute gift ideas for Dad? @creativebug has some awesome DIY projects & you can set up a FREE account & access their amazing library of video tutorials & lots of creative inspiration with your RPL card! 🎉😍🎁 https://creativebug.com/lib/rvalibrary
4Read all about our upcoming programs & ongoing projects in the latest issue of RPL @ Home, our weekly online newsletter! 📰 http://rvalibrary.org/newsletter
#CephalopodWeek from @scifri kicks off today and it's bound to be tenta-cool 🦑
4These examples of squids and octopi are from "Mollusques méditeranéens", written by Jean Baptiste Verany and published in 1851. Find it in @BioDivLibrary : https://s.si.edu/3q5fNPy