Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
Preserving A Warehouse of Forestry History
Posted about 6 years ago by kathryn Coker
According to a 2005 survey, American institutions retain over 4 billion items like books, manuscripts, photographs, oral history, maps, sound recordings, and digital collections. Libraries own 63 percent of them. […]
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Teens & Foster Care
Posted about 6 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Book Reviews, Teens
May is National Foster Care Month. It is a time to acknowledge all the helpers involved in the foster care system, but more importantly to recognize and support the children […]
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Creating Space: Personal reflections on inspiring spaces
Posted about 6 years ago by Natalie Draper
I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about space. Not outer space, though sometimes that too, but the spaces we live in, and more importantly, how we interact with, […]
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Reading Pandemic Fiction in a Pandemic
Posted about 6 years ago by Phil Shepard
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Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with Fiction, pandemic, reading suggestions
Is this pandemic messing with your reading habits? It’s messing with mine. I have more time for reading, but reading has gotten so much more difficult. I am one of […]
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Tips and Tricks for Preserving Family History
Posted about 6 years ago by Alexandra Zukas
There’s no doubt that many of us are feeling isolated right now, looking forward to being able to see friends and family again. Of course, one way of coping […]
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Grocery Shopping from the Back Porch
Posted about 6 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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crafts and hobbies, Gardening, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with e-books, gardening, novice gardener, seeds;, vegetable garden
Grocery Shopping from the Back Porch That’s my plan. At least, for vegetables. Last weekend a friend left some seeds on the porch that I planted in tiny seedling containers […]
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Law Day 2020
Posted about 6 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Book Reviews, Events, History and Preservation, Holidays, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library
| Tagged with 19th Amendment, Constitution, law, Law Day, Law Library, May 1, Representative democracy, rule of law, Vote, Women's Suffrage
What is Law Day? Law Day was established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 as a national day set aside to celebrate the rule of law in the United […]
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Antidote for Reality: Romance Reads
Posted about 6 years ago by Robyn Webb
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Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with antidote for reality, book recommendations, book recs, Hoopla, romance
Together, let’s take a moment to step back from being inundated with news and worry. In this new series of blog posts about escapist reads, we’ll introduce you to new […]
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YA Reads for Autism Awareness
Posted about 6 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Book Reviews, Teens
Please note that I did not make the title of this post “YA Reads for Autism Awareness Month.” This was intentional. Even though April is Autism Awareness Month, and it […]
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Richmond Reflects: documenting the moment
Posted about 6 years ago by Natalie Draper
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History and Preservation
So many of us have suddenly found ourselves spending a lot more time at home with our families, and one of the best things we can do to entertain ourselves, […]
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