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    JMRL serves the City of Charlottesville and the Counties of Albemarle, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson. There are eight library locations, the Bookmobile, and a Digital Library that can be accessed from anywhere.

    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    Books on Tap discussed All the Pretty Horses, the first book in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy on May 2nd.  For some of our members it was their first time reading a book by McCarthy, but we also had at least two well-read McCarthy fans who greatly enhanced our discussion.  McCarthy’s books are apparently known for […]
    A Scottsville gem: Library celebrates 65th anniversary
    “The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” – Albert Einstein In the Town of Scottsville, VA, the library isn’t hard to find. Just two blocks north of Main Street, the Scottsville branch of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library sits in the heart of town. Families routinely walk to […]
    “A feeling long smothered had blazed up in her—had become a conviction. She had never heard the thing said before, never put it into words. It was the owning that was wrong, the relation itself, no matter how convenient or agreeable it might be for…
    Central Library’s Brown Baggers book group discussed Willa Cather’s final novel Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) in May. Set on a smaller Virginia farm and mill west of the Blue Ridge in 1856, the title character Sapphira is a wheelchair bound middle aged woman of a slave-owning family who marries “down” to Henry, a […]