Richmond Public Library: By Teens, For Teens – Sherlock Holmes Read-Alikes

Welcome back to our By Teens, For Teens blog series! Apologies that it's been awhile since our last post. We hope you've been reading so ...

Red Cross Offers Amazon Gift Card For Blood Donations: Upcoming Drives Near Richmond

Red Cross blood donors will receive a $10 Amazon gift card during February.

Richmond Public Library: 2022 Youth Media Awards Winners

For those of you who are fans of children's and young adult literature, the Youth Media Awards are probably as exciting as the Oscars or ...

​ ‘It’s Good Enough for My Family,’ say Avery Point Employees

Family members of employees are moving to vibrant senior living community.

Alzheimer's Community Forum for the Tri-Cities

On Wednesday, Feb. 2 starting at 11:00am, the Alzheimer's Association will hold a virtual Alzheimer's Community Forum for the Tri-Cities.

Richmond Public Library: Do You HOOPLA?

Do you HOOPLA?

Richmond Public Library: Read A Graphic Novel — 2022 RAD Reading Challenge For Teens

Welcome back! I hope my intro post to this year's RAD Reading Challenge has you all excited and ready to dive in!

Richmond Public Library: 2022 RAD Reading Challenge For Teens!

For me, the new year always brings a new reading challenge. In 2020 I completed and wrote about the Read Harder Reading Challenge. And l ...

Richmond Public Library: A New You In 2022

So, we've come through well over a year of quarantine. It has become clear that physical health, including astrong immune system, is ver ...

Chance To Win Super Bowl Tickets By Donating Blood: Red Cross

Red Cross blood donors will be entered for a chance to win tickets to the Super Bowl.

PETA Accuses NIH Of Buying Beagles From VA Facility Cited By USDA

Federal regulators cite the Envigo facility in Cumberland, Virginia, for multiple animal welfare violations; PETA investigators reveal more.

Chance To Win Super Bowl Tickets By Donating Blood: Red Cross

Red Cross blood donors will be entered for a chance to win tickets to the Super Bowl.

Richmond Public Library: Bah! Humbug!

See the latest announcement from the Richmond Public Library.

Richmond Area Red Cross Blood Drives Coming Up Soon

The Red Cross is holding blood drives soon in the Richmond area.

Richmond Public Library: Music Of The Month – December 2021

See the latest announcement from the Richmond Public Library.

Richmond Public Library: Master Gardener Virtual Help Desk

When the pandemic began in Spring 2020, the Richmond Public Library and Richmond Master Gardeners created the Virtual Help Desk, a way f ...

Richmond Area Red Cross Blood Drives Coming Up Soon

Here's a list of the Red Cross blood drives being held in the Richmond area.

Richmond Public Library: 2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Something You've Always Wanted To Learn About

Well readers, we've made it to the end of the 2021 RPL Teen Reading Challenge! This post highlights Prompt #12, our last official prompt ...

Richmond Public Library: Veterans Day

See the latest announcement from the Richmond Public Library.

Richmond Public Library: Music Of The Month – November 2021

See the latest announcement from the Richmond Public Library.

Looking Forward to a New Lifestyle & Living Space at Avery Point

Couple is excited to move to new Erickson Senior Living community in Short Pump, Virginia.

Red Cross Blood Drives Coming Up In Richmond Area

The U.S. is experiencing a severe blood supply shortage.

Richmond Public Library: National American Indian Heritage Month

National American Indian Heritage Month has particular significance to Virginia, home to eleven state recognized American Indian tribes. ...

Richmond Public Library: Career Stations In The Community!

The City of Richmond's Office of Community Wealth Building and Richmond Public Library bring career planning services and job training t ...

Blood Donors Needed In Richmond Area: Red Cross Drives Coming Up Soon

The Red Cross is holding a series of blood drives in the Richmond area soon.

Richmond Public Library: Programs That Will Send A Chill Down Your Spine!

The last two weeks of October are undoubtedly the spookiest time of the year. Each day, the sun goes down earlier and earlier. The wind ...

Richmond Public Library: 2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Books About Teen Entrepreneurship

Wow! This is our next-to-last prompt for the 2021 RPL Teen Reading Challenge. It's hard to believe that we are so close to the end. Like ...

Richmond Public Library: Haunted Houses And Things That Go Bump In The Night

As the days get shorter and the weather gets cooler (please, let it get cooler!) I want to spend even more time nested in at home readin ...

Richmond Public Library: Learning To Love Our Autumn Years

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made…”

Richmond Public Library: Music Of The Month – October 2021

See the latest announcement from the Richmond Public Library.

Richmond Public Library: Celebrate The Days – October

OCTOBER CELEBRATIONS

Richmond Public Library: Banned Books Week 2021

This year's Banned Books Week theme is Books Unite Us, Censorship Divides Us. I personally find this to be a universal truth. With a boo ...

Richmond Public Library: 2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Books By Or About A Senior Citizen

Readers, we are in the last quarter of our 2021 RPL Teen Reading Challenge! If you've made it this far, I have complete confidence that ...

Upcoming Red Cross Blood Drives In Richmond Area

All types of donations are needed, especially type O.

Richmond Public Library: New Book Discussion Program!

First Chapters is about building reading skills and community. On the last Wednesday of each month at 12:00 pm online via Zoom, we read ...

Richmond Public Library: Urban Fiction Experience – Saturday, Sept. 25

Check out items in our collection from these authors ahead of the 25th!

Richmond Public Library: September 11, 2001: How Will You Remember?

This year, on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Richmond Public Library is proud to host an educational exhibit made available b ...

Blood Donations Needed In Richmond Area: Red Cross Drives Coming Up Soon

The U.S. is experiencing a severe blood donation shortage.

Richmond Public Library: Unusual Book Lists

Every person at a circulation desk can tell you a story or thirty about a patron who can't remember a title but remembers part of the co ...

Gen. Robert E. Lee Statue Comes Down In Richmond As Crowds Cheer

A 12-ton statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted off its pedestal in a traffic circle in Richmond Wednesday morning.