Events
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Let’s Celebrate Black History!
Posted about 2 months ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Audiobooks, Biographies, Black History Month, book discussions, celebrations, Children's, Comics, diverse reads, Events, Families, For Teens, Graphic Novels, History and Preservation, Picturebooks, Poetry, reading suggestions
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #childrensbooks, Afrofuturism, authors, Black History Month, celebrations, Harlem Renaissance, Hip Hop, Seniors, Teen Activities
Let’s celebrate Black History through the arts at the Richmond Public Library!
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New Federal Reporting Requirements for Small Businesses
Posted about 2 months ago by Charlie Schmidt
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Adult, Business, Events, Law Library
| Tagged with government, Law Library, small business
As of January 1, 2024, most small businesses will have to report to the federal government who owns the business. The mandatory reporting is the new Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) […]
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Twelve Days of Richmond Public Library – Writers, Artists, and other Creatives
Posted about 3 months ago by Ben Himmelfarb
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Adult, Events, How-To, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Online Database, Technology, Writing
| Tagged with artists, authors, biblioboard, creative community, first fridays, local artists, local authors, writers, zine fest, zines
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 […]
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Celebrate Spooky Season With RPL
Posted about 6 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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celebrations, Children's, Events, Families, holidays, holidays; celebrations, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens
| Tagged with halloween
If you love spooky season like I do, then you are loving life right now. It’s the best time of year (IMO). A time when the weather gets little chilly, […]
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Hispanic Heritage month 9/15-10/15
Posted about 6 months ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Book Reviews, books in translation, celebrations, Children's, Events, Families, hispanic heritage month, holidays, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, September
| 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 […]
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Celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month
Posted about 7 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Events, holidays; celebrations
| Tagged with celebration, dance party, library card sign-up month, ripple
Press Release Library Card Sign-Up Month 2023 Post Date: 9/1/2023 Get in Your Element this Fall with a Library Card (Richmond, VA) — This September, Richmond Public Library (RPL) joins […]
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RPL’s Summer Reading Program Starts June 10
Posted about 10 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Children's, Events, Families, Reading Challenge, Teens
| Tagged with #alltogethernow, #srp2023, #summerreading, #summerreadingprogram
Press Release Richmond Public Library’s Summer Reading Program Starts June 10 Post Date: 6/5/2023 (Richmond, VA) — Richmond Public Library’s Summer Reading Program is back! From June 10 – August […]
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Earth Day 2023 – Invest in Our Planet
Posted about 11 months ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Earth Day, environment, Events, Families, Fiction, Health and Wellness, Holidays, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions
| 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 […]
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Author Talk: Margaret Edds & “What The Eyes Can’t See”
Posted about 1 year ago by Ben Himmelfarb
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Adult, Biographies, book discussions, Events, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower
| Tagged with Author Talk, book discussion, history, racial justice, ralph northam
Margaret Edds will discuss her new book and sign copies available for purchase from Book People. Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 6:30 pm in the Gellman Room at the Main Library […]
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New Art at Main! The Conjurer Revealed…
Posted about 1 year ago by Ben Himmelfarb
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Adult, Events, Inform * Enrich * Empower
| Tagged with art, art opening, artist talk, special collections
The City of Richmond Public Art Commission & Richmond Public Library invite you to a talk by artist Rob Womack to celebrate the reinstallation of his multi-panel painting, The Conjuror […]
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