Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
A Book Worth Finishing
Posted about 8 years ago by Phil Shepard
Not long ago Goodread put out an infographic about finishing books. In their survey they discovered that somewhere around 38% of people who read will finish a book no matter […]
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Road Trip Audio to Download…Free!
Posted about 8 years ago by Lisa Crisman
Late summer road trip in your future? Check out this week’s downloads from SyncAudiobooks for Teens. Three weeks of great titles left for this summer, with two titles each week. […]
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Life imitating Art/Art Imitating Life, or, news stories we’d like to see fictionalized
Posted about 8 years ago by Natalie Draper
Security Robot Commits Suicide Is the natural consequence of sophisticated AI going to be sad robots? NPR got me all misty thinking about Steve, the loneliest robot: “The roughly 5-foot […]
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Motel of the Mysteries
Posted about 8 years ago by Natalie Draper
What books from your childhood still have a hold on you as an adult? Do you think of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie every time something in your […]
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Revisited, reinvented, reimagined
Posted about 8 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with classics
Ah, the agony and ecstasy of being a librarian–surrounded by all the books I could ever hope to read and no time to read them. My TBR (to be read) […]
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The Glitch Ramblings of Iphone’s Quicktype
Posted about 8 years ago by Phil Shepard
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Inform * Enrich * Empower, Technology
The modern human life is mostly dependent on technology. We are connected. We wear our computers on our wrists, reminding us to not forget to breathe. They’re in our back […]
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Podcast Episode #1: Did you miss Girls of Summer?
Posted about 8 years ago by longtoem
On Wednesday, June 21st, Richmond Young Writers got the opportunity to ask Newbery Honor Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia all about becoming an author. Lucky for you, we’ve snagged a recording […]
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My Summer with Jay
Posted about 8 years ago by Laura Price
Posted in
Book Reviews
Whether it was required summer reading for AP English or Freshman Core class (an interdisciplinary mashup of lit, economics and anthropology), I cannot be sure. What I do recall is […]
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Wondering what Girls of Summer (which starts tonight!) is all about?
Posted about 8 years ago by Amy Harrison
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Events
Come celebrate seven years of fun with books, food, giveaways and meet our guest author Rita Williams-Garcia. Read all about the event and the guest author Rita Williams-Garcia from the […]
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Tomorrow Night, Girls of Summer Kickoff Party!
Posted about 8 years ago by Amy Harrison
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Events
Come celebrate seven years of fun with books, food, giveaways and meet our guest author Rita Williams-Garcia. Free and open to the public from 7pm to 9pm at Richmond Main […]
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