Phil Shepard's Posts

Posted about 3 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult | Tagged with business, law, Law Library, nonprofit, workshops

Richmond Public Library is your public library. Although books are in our DNA, public libraries of today are so much more. In the spirit of holiday giving, we are presenting […]

Posted about 3 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with eresources, lifelonglearning, onlinedatabases, onlinelearning, research

Posted about 3 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with books, ilovemylibrary, librarycard, librarypatrons, libraryservices, readers

Richmond Public Library is your public library. Although books are in our DNA, public libraries of today are so much more. In the spirit of holiday giving, we are presenting […]

Posted about 3 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, books in series, Fiction, reading suggestions

Are you mad for books in series?  Me, too!  I love books in series, but also have a compulsion that I.  Must.  Read.  Series.  In.  Order.  Sometimes this proves difficult.  […]

Posted about 3 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #rplrecommends, dark academia, Fiction, gothic fiction, reading suggestions

Posted about 3 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Children's, Events, Families, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, celebrations, hispanic heritage month, latino

National Hispanic Heritage Month was established in 1968 as “Hispanic Heritage Week” under President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in in 1988 to cover a 30-day […]

Posted about 3 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult

Have you ever wondered how the Virginia General Assembly really works? Perhaps you are looking for an example of a Bill of Particulars? Maybe you overheard talk at a lively […]

Posted about 3 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Reading Recommendations

Self-Care September I am not a hot weather person, and summer is my Grumpy Season.  I am looking forward to September for many reasons.  It should be cooler, and September is […]

Posted about 3 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Book Reviews, Families | Tagged with #camping, #ice cream, #nature, #nice, #outdoors, #outside, celebrations, checklists, food

June is a month full of contradictions and changes.  Spring changes to Summer.  The sun sets later and later, and rises earlier.  June 21st – the Summer Solstice – is […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Events, Families, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, celebrations, currentevents, health and wellness

It all started with a book by Rachel Carson.  Silent Spring was originally published in 1962, and became a New York Times bestseller. It raised awareness about the links between […]