All libraries will be closed Wednesday, June 19th in celebration of Juneteenth.

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need.
Judy Blume

First Friday at Main Library


June 7th
Main Library

Make the Main Library a stop on your culture crawl by joining us on First Fridays from 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM. These events feature openings in each of our gallery spaces from a variety of local artists.

RippleCon 2024


June 22nd
Main Library

RippleCon is back! Join us for some incredible comic con fun. There will be gaming, crafts, photo ops, CosPlay contest with prizes, vendors galore, workshops, panel talks, special guests and more!!!

Summer Reading Program 2024


June 1st - August 3rd
All Branches

Join our summer reading adventure and start exploring! All our branches will be having a summer reading kickoff event on June 1st. Come grab your log, do a craft, and have fun!

New Expanded Hours



Exciting news! Several of our locations have expanded their hours making a total of 44 new hours added to our systemwide schedule since January 1. Please make a note and tell your friends. We hope these additional morning, evening, and Sunday hours make it even easier for you to access our buildings, resources, and staff.

What’s Happening Summer 2024



Discover upcoming events at Richmond Public Library by downloading and printing RPL’s What’s Happening Summer 2024 guide. Copies are also available at all Richmond Public Library locations.

Check It Out: Free Blood Pressure Screening at the Library



Check It Out: Your Blood Pressure (BP) at the Library is a community-based initiative to reduce hypertension. Seven of our branches have self-service BP stations as well as monthly BP screenings to help you and your loved ones know your numbers. And, now Richmond Public Library cardholders are also able to check out a BP monitoring kit for use at home, making monitoring your health even easier.

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Children's Books Set In Richmond and Virginia! (Part 2)

Lisa Wiertel
June 4, 2024
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This is the 2nd installment of a series of blog posts highlighting children's books that include Richmond and Virginia as the location. It is always fun to read books that take place where we live.  Seeing our Virginia cities and counties mentioned in the pages of a book gives one a special connection to what is being read.  Richmond Public Library has many children's books in our collection with settings that take place in Richmond and Virginia.  Both fiction and non-fiction selections are included with a brief description,...

Find Your Next Great Read @ the Library

Meg Raymond
May 29, 2024
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Richmond Public Library has something for everyone Check out these new or newly updated booklists on the RPL Readers page All Five Senses fiction you can see, hear, feel, smell, or taste It's All Relative: Getting Above Your Raising memoirs of overcoming toxic childhoods It's All Relative: Family Secrets memoirs about things we don't talk about It's All Relative: Families Sure are Funny funny memoirs about families Danger! Plot Twists Ahead fiction with unexpected twists and...

Storytime at Home: Adventure!

Sarah Fenninger
May 27, 2024
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#childrensbooks
#kidsbooks
#rplrecommends
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Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go along with the theme, songs/rhymes you can do during storytime, and additional enrichment activities. All books are available at Richmond Public Library, and crafts will involve items you likely have at home already! Our hope is that we can make it easy for you to share stories with your little ones and create a little bit of library magic at home.  P.S. Love library storytimes? Take a...

May Book Chat with the Youth Services Team

Lisa Wiertel
May 17, 2024
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#picturebook recommendations
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Welcome to the another installment in our series of blog posts featuring children's books we're currently loving! "Book Chat with the Youth Services Team" features one book recommendation from each of our Youth Services team members. We cover a variety of books from fiction to non-fiction, picture books to chapter books, graphic novels and more! We hope that this month's reading recommendations get you excited about some awesome new books we've added to our collection as well as some oldies but goodies....

Storytime at Home: Bugs!

Sarah Fenninger
May 13, 2024
#bookchat
#bookrecs
#childrensbooks
#kidsbooks
#rplrecommends
#storytimeathome
storytime at home
book-reviews
childrens

Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go along with the theme, songs/rhymes you can do during storytime, and additional enrichment activities. All books are available at Richmond Public Library, and crafts will involve items you likely have at home already! Our hope is that we can make it easy for you to share stories with your little ones and create a little bit of library magic at home.  P.S. Love library storytimes? Take a...