Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
YAVA Award Celebration
Posted about 4 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
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Events, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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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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By Teens, For Teens – A Thousand Splendid Suns & The Last Thing He Told Me
Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Book Reviews, diverse reads, Fiction, mystery, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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This week for our By Teens, For Teens blog post, VolunTEEN Elaina S., age 15. has written two book reviews for you. Although both of these books are classified as […]
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April Book Chat with the Youth Services Team
Posted about 4 years ago by Louis Maranski
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Children's, Families, Reading Recommendations
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Welcome back to the next installment in our new series of blog posts featuring children’s books we’re currently loving! “Book Chat with the Youth Services Team” features one book recommendation […]
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Read a Book About Food — 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
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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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Being a Public Library Worker: A Love Letter
Posted about 4 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
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Inform * Enrich * Empower
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By Tori Nunnally As a librarian, often people ask me if “e-books & streaming” scare me or cause me to worry if I will have a job in the future. […]
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By Teens, For Teens – Love Medicine & The Shining
Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Book Reviews, Fiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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Welcome back for this week’s installment of By Teens, For Teens! This week we have two reviews for your reading pleasure, one on a book featuring Indigenous characters and one […]
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National Library Week 2022
Posted about 4 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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By Teens, For Teens – Around the World in 80 Days & Coming of Age Movies
Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Fiction, Film, Movies, Teens
| Tagged with adventuremovie, byteensforteens, comingofagemovies, movierecs, teenmovies, volunteen
Welcome back for our latest installment of By Teens, For Teens! This week is for our movie lovers! Max K., age 15 shares his review of the 2004 updated classic […]
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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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