Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
Focus on the New: Middle Grade Fiction, ages 8-12
Posted about 3 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Fiction, poetry, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with Award winners, Children's fantasy, Kid's fiction, Middle grade fiction, National Reading Month
Calling all readers ages 8-12…it’s National Reading Month! Listed below are new titles from 2020 and 2021. A wide range of genres include fantasy, friends, and family. Some are set […]
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Book Horoscopes – Aquarius
Posted about 3 years ago by Robyn Webb
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Book Horoscopes, Book Reviews, Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with book horoscopes, book recommendations, book recs, Fiction, nonfiction, reading suggestions
Every month of 2021 we will be sharing a tailored horoscope blog post for the current sun sign plus some extra goodies for the rest of us. (Yes, this is […]
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Celebrate the Days – March
Posted about 3 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with celebrations
March “comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb”. This month can have all four seasons! There are holidays and observances every day of the month – […]
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Help! Taxes!
Posted about 3 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Inform * Enrich * Empower
| Tagged with taxes
Last year, the IRS pushed the tax filing deadline to July 15, 2020, for 2019 returns. So far, the April 15th deadline is in place this year for filing 2020 […]
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Black Suffragists and Activists: Addie Waites Hunton
Posted about 3 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, Black History Month, History and Preservation, Law Library, Women's History
| Tagged with Addie Waited Hunton, African American Suffragist, Law Library, Natioanl Association of Colored Women, Suffragist, William A. Hunton
In preparation for Black History Month, I did a little research and uncovered some fascinating people like Addie Waites Hunton, an African American suffragist, activist, writer, political organizer, and educator. […]
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Celebrating the Year of the Ox
Posted about 3 years ago by Laura Price
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Adult, Asian American, Children's, Families, Holidays, Teens
| Tagged with books for adults, children's books, Lunar New Year, picture books, teens, Year of the Ox, young adult
It's the Year of the Ox! Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a new book!
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Black History Month: Picturing Families
Posted about 3 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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Black History Month, Children's, Families, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with Adinkra, BHM, Black families, Black History Month, Bryan Collier, Diversity, Gabrielle Union, Grandparents, Jerry Pinkney, Lizzy Rockwell, Misty Copeland, picture books
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History develops themes for Black History Month each year. The themes “reflect changes in how people of African descent in […]
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2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Teen Activists
Posted about 3 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #activism, #activist, #teenactivism, #teenactivist, 2021rplteenreadingchallenge, booksforteens, currentevents, ireadya, readingchallenge, teenreadingchallenge, teenreads
Welcome back! Can you believe we are already in to month two of our 2021 RPL Teen Reading Challenge?! How is it going for you so far? As I mentioned […]
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New Richmond Public Law Library Book Club
Posted about 3 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Events, Law Library
| Tagged with Angela P. Dodson, Doris Stevens, Jailed For Freedom, law, Lucy Burns Museum, Occoquan Workhouse, Oliver W. Hill, Oliver W. Hill Book Club, Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box, Richmond Public Library, Spottswood Robinson, Virginia history
The Richmond Public Law Library is launching the bi-monthly Oliver W. Hill Book Club on Monday, March 8th online. The club is named in honor of Oliver W. Hill (1907–2007), […]
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Explore Black History Across America
Posted about 3 years ago by Katherine Daigle
The roots of Black History Month spans back to 1926 when what is now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), established the second week […]
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