Events
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Celebrate Spooky Season With RPL
Posted about 2 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 3 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 3 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 6 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 8 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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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month @ RPL
Posted about 1 year ago by Jennifer Deuell
September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage Month! Please join us in paying tribute to the many generations of Hispanic Americans who have enriched and positively influenced […]
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YAVA Award Celebration
Posted about 2 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
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Events, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with awards, book recommendations, ireadya, local authors, teenreads, yava
Join us for our annual Young Adult Virginia (YAVA) Award Celebration! This year our theme is “Into the Forest” and we have an enchanted afternoon planned. Meet and mingle with […]
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National Library Week 2022
Posted about 2 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
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Events, Inform * Enrich * Empower
| Tagged with fundlibraries, libraryoutreach, librarystrong, nlw22, nlwd22, rvalibrary
This year’s theme: Connect With Your Library. Thankfully, there’s so many ways to do that these days! Check out our social media: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or Twitter! Visit your local […]
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