Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
The Ultimate Annual Richmond Public Library Staff Pick List: Best books of the worst year edition
Posted about 5 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Book Reviews, Fiction, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with 2020, best of, lists, staff picks
Happy New Year and Goodbye, 2020, readers! I asked the staff once again to share with you all what their favorite read of the past year has been. To say […]
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Celebrate the Days – January
Posted about 5 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with celebrations
 Let’s start 2021 with reasons to have a little party every day. There are holidays and observances every day of every month – so many reasons to celebrate!I’m not […]
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Most Anticipated YA Books of 2021 (the first half)
Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #2021releases, #ireadya, #mostanticipated, #yareads, tbr
Last December, I made a list of my 10 most anticipated ya books to be released in 2020. It was so well received that I’ve decided to make it an […]
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FOUND: The Lost Art of Letter Writing
Posted about 5 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Asian American, Book Reviews, Children's, crafts and hobbies, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Writing
| Tagged with book recommendations, Communication, Friendship, Handwriting, letter writing
Lost or dead. We often see the unhappy plight of an art no longer in use as an indication of cultural decay. We can also see a challenge. These days, […]
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Comics Club Close-up: Paulina Ganucheau
Posted about 5 years ago by Robyn Webb
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Book Reviews, Comics, Fiction, Manga, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #teenreads, book recommendations, book recs, comics, graphic novels, LGBT, teenreads, teens
Starting this past September we offered a monthly virtual comics meeting to talk about, share, and create comics together! If you missed the Tween Comics Club or just want to […]
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BILL OF RIGHTS DAY
Posted about 5 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Book Reviews, Events, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library
| Tagged with Bill of Rights, Bill Of Rights Day, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Mason, James Madison, law, Law Library, Nazi Germany, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Harry S Truman, U.S. Constitution, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Virginia Constitution, Virginia Declaration of Rights, Virginia General Assembly, World War II
Presidential Proclamation On November 27, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation designating December 15 as Bill of Rights Day. The proclamation read in part: The first ten amendments, […]
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YA Books with Jewish Protagonists
Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with hanukkah, ireadya, jew, jewish, teens, yabooks, yareads
I initially set out wanting to write this post about YA Hanukkah books; however, there are not many (or any) of those. That’s a bummer! If you are a Jewish […]
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Misleading Fiction Titles
Posted about 5 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations
The library has nonfiction books that aim to teach readers new skills. Want to learn to bring old clothes back to life, brew beer, or raise chickens? There are books […]
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“Black Food Matters”
Posted about 5 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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Book Reviews, Cooking
| Tagged with African American cooking, African American foodways, Alexander Smalls, Alice Randall, Black cooks, Carla Hall, Edna Lewis, Jenné Claiborne, Jerrelle Guy, Kwame Onwuachi, Marcus Samuelsson, Michael W. Twitty, Pamela Strobel, Soul food, Sweet Home Cafe, The Last O.G., Toni Tipton-Martin
Full disclaimer: I borrowed this phrase from Mark Whitaker on CBS Sunday Morning. The show aired Sunday, November 22, 2020. I had been waiting for our library’s copy of Marcus […]
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Commemorating Native American Heritage Month
Posted about 5 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Events, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library
| Tagged with Anglo-Powhatan War, Indigenous Peoples, law, Law Library, Native American Heritage Month, Native Americans, Virginia's Native Americans
Part II: Virginia’s Native Americans Virginia’s Earliest Inhabitants Virginia’s earliest inhabitants were hunters and gatherers who tracked the migratory patterns of animals. In time, they formed towns along riverbanks and sketched […]
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