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News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
World Water Day
Posted about 4 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
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Book Reviews
What is World Water Day? It’s a United Nations Observance that started in 1993 to celebrate water and bring awareness to the 2 million people living now without access to […]
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PERSONAL FINANCE for EVERYONE
Posted about 4 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Events, For Teens, Health and Wellness, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with adulting, Author Talk, authors, consumer, Financial Literacy, first job, Home Economics, Law Library, local authors, nonfiction, Personal Finance, reading suggestions, saving and investment, teenreads, teens
Since when is Personal Finance a thing? When the world got super complicated, apparently. No longer is it just a decision of whether to put your money under the mattress, […]
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Read a Book With a One-Word Title — 2022 RAD Reading Challenge for Teens
Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Book Reviews, Reading Challenge, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with aradreadingchallenge, book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, ireadya, reachingchallenge, reading suggestions, readingchallenge2022, teenreads
Welcome back to another month of the RAD Reading Challenge, RPL style! If you missed my prior posts, you can find them all linked at the bottom of this post. […]
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Innovative Women in History
Posted about 4 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Asian American, Biographies, Book Reviews, Children's, Events, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, nonfiction, Teens, Women's History
| Tagged with book recommendations, Dr. Patricia Bath, Ellen Ochoa, Frances Perkins, Grace Hopper, Law Library, Michelle Khine, minimum wage, social security, unemployment insurance, Women Astronauts, women innovators, women inventors, Women scientists, Women's History Month
INVENTIVE WOMEN IN HISTORY According to the old proverb, “Necessity is the Mother of Invention,” and Mothers of invention have frequently been women. Throughout March, Women’s History Month, Richmond Public […]
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March Book Chat with the Youth Services Team
Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Children's, Families, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, #youthservices
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By Teens, For Teens – Pride and Prejudice & Cinder (the Lunar Chronicles Series)
Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Book Reviews, Fiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, byteensforteens, teenreads, volunteen
Welcome back for this week’s installment of By Teens, For Teens! This time we feature both an old classic and a newer classic. Isabelle R., age 16 shares her review […]
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Music of the Month – March 2022
Posted about 4 years ago by Ben Himmelfarb
MUSIC OF THE MONTH IS A MONTHLY ROUND-UP OF RPL’S MUSIC-RELATED PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES. Gellman Room Concerts The 2021-2022 Gellman Room Concert season is here! You can always […]
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On the Conflict in the Ukraine
Posted about 4 years ago by Adam Zimmerli
When I was 17, I went to Russia. At the time, it was the greatest adventure of my life; four high school students and three teachers spent several weeks visiting […]
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By Teens, For Teens – The Scarlet Letter & The Andromeda Strain
Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Book Reviews, Fiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, byteensforteens, teenreads, volunteen
This week we have two new book reviews from VolunTEEN David G., age 14. One older classic and one newer classic, these reviews will have you rushing to the library […]
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An Introduction to the Libby App
Posted about 4 years ago by Louis Maranski
As digital readers and online libraries have grown, the world of reading has expanded for millions around the world. Books that would otherwise be out of reach and unavailable are […]
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