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News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
Veteran’s Day 2020
Posted about 3 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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Events
| Tagged with Folklife Center, Library of Congress, McGuire VA Medical Center, national parks, Veterans Day, Veterans History Project
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines armistice as “temporary stopping of open acts of warfare by agreement between the opponents.” In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh […]
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Interning at the RPL: 1970’s Film and Historical Trends in the Archives
Posted about 3 years ago by Natalie Draper
Guest Post by Stephanie Campbell, VCU student and Main Library Intern When given the choice between finishing my Bachelor’s degree in history at VCU with either a CAPStone research paper […]
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Focus on the New: Nonfiction for Kids
Posted about 3 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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Book Reviews, Children's, crafts and hobbies, nonfiction
| Tagged with Beverly Cleary, Biography, environment, Gwendolyn Brooks, Itzhak Perlman, Julio C. Tello, kids cooking, mermaids, Sharuko
Do you have a young reader who loves books full of facts and information? Check out this sample of new titles available for curbside pickup @ your local Richmond Public […]
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RPL Recommends: The Scariest Books We’ve Ever Read
Posted about 3 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Fiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #halloween, #horror, #rplrecommends, #scarybooks
This Halloween, we’ve set out to bring you the scariest books we’ve ever read…and you know we read a lot of books! The following is a list of books which […]
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Latino Voter Suppression: A Brief Look
Posted about 3 years ago by kathryn Coker
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November Means NaNoWriMo
Posted about 3 years ago by Meg Raymond
EVERY STORY MATTERS. START WRITING YOURS. “Writing a novel alone can be difficult, even for seasoned writers. NaNoWriMo helps you track your progress, set milestones, connect with other writers in […]
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Why YA Lit is Important
Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
As we near the end of TeenTober, I just want to talk a little bit about why YA literature is so important. Young adult literature has really flourished in the […]
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Love, Seldom, Trust, Never
Posted about 4 years ago by April Freeman
Posted in
Book Reviews
( When the Game Start Playing You!) AUTHOR TY MARSHALL This title alone had me intrigued about what was within these pages. Ty Marshall is one of the authors that […]
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Voting Machines! Plus, Political Fiction for Every Political Taste
Posted about 4 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with Vote
Every four years, the United States elects a new president. For the first 50 years or so of our nation’s history, voting was done in person at the local courthouse […]
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Voting and Elections for Kids!
Posted about 4 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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Book Reviews, Children's, Elections
| Tagged with book recommendations, elections, nonfiction, Presidents, Shirley Chisholm, Voting Rights Act of 1965
Voting and elections are in the news. It’s important and sometimes difficult to talk to kids about the process, results and why it’s all so necessary. Here are some titles […]
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