The Great Big Green Week
June 10 – 18 is The Great Big Green Week, a week celebrating community action in tackling climate change and protecting nature. This blog post will look at the ways…
How can the library help you through the cost of living crisis?
Warm spaces, books, internet access and events; the library has many ways to support you through the cost-of-living crisis. Using the resources available to you as a library user, this…
Explore your local stories
I’m here to help people find the stories that matter to them. The real stories. Stories of the lives lived, here in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It's…
MozFest 2019
This year was the 10th anniversary of MozFest, a conference run by the Mozilla Foundation to work towards an internet that best serves the public good. Focussed on a weekend,…
Summer IT Sessions
Summer is drawing to a close, and that also means the end of our Summer IT Sessions. Each summer, members of staff travel around the borough to offer drop-in sessions…
The Shell Guides: a short history
Introduction In 1933 John Betjeman, who was then working for Architectural Review magazine, came up with the idea for a series of county guides. He conceived the guides as an…
Which? magazine – the consumers’ champion
Introduction Which? magazine is published by the Consumers' Association and first appeared in 1957. Its aim, then as now, is to provide impartial, independent reviews and testing of consumer products.…
Make a Noise in Libraries (MANIL2019)
Make a Noise in Libraries official banner. Richmond upon Thames Borough Libraries will once again be participating in Make a Noise in Libraries (MANIL), organised by the Royal National Institute of Blind…
This April, why not Spring Online?
From 23 to 27 April, staff at the Information & Reference Library in Richmond will be hosting a series of workshops to help you make the most of online opportunities.…
Save money with Richmond upon Thames libraries
You probably know that your library can offer you a selection of books, and that loaning books, CDs and DVDs from the library is cheaper than buying them. You may…