JMRL blog

With the launch of JMRL’s 2025 Summer Reading Challenge also comes the newest lineup in the Library’s Summer Performer Series! Children of all ages and their families are invited to attend JMRL’s Summer Performer Series. These fun, free performances include live animals, music, theater, magic, and more. Teens ages 11 to 18 are invited to […]

It’s that time of year again when each library branch hosts their own special event to celebrate the beginning of Summer Reading and the opening of Summer Reading Registration From sidewalk chalk, lawn games, llamas, frozen treats, and more, there’s no shortage of fun activities to get you and your family pumped for another great […]

On April 3, Books on Tap met to discuss Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Kimmerer, an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, is the director of the Center for Native People and the Environment and distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Originally published in 2013, […]

Location: Central Library, 201 E. Market St, Charlottesville, VA The How-To Festival is FREE and open to everyone. Bring the family and tell your friends! There’s something for all ages—drop-in to workshops inside and outside the building on a range of topics from 18th Century textile spinning, navigating AI, cooking demos, book making, woodworking and […]

On March 6, Books on Tap discussed the 2025 Same Page Community Read title, Chesapeake Requiem: A Year With the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift. Swift, a local author who lives in the Afton area, was a long-time reporter for the Virginian Pilot, has contributed features to Outside and other magazines, and […]

Millions of people across the country visit their libraries every week. What’s the draw? Everything. From young families stopping in for play and storytime, to students sketching out their next creative project in a makerspace, to seniors seeking tech help and everyone in between, libraries of all kinds help us connect the dots from one part […]

The Scottsville Library is excited to announce the installation of a Little Free Food Pantry, on site at the library.

On Dec. 19th 2024, the Central Library Brown Baggers had their annual holiday potluck and selection meeting.  The group was choosing titles to discuss for June 2025-May 2026. The group has been reading and discussing books since Sept. 2008 so it was important for all, especially newer members, to know the Brown Baggers archive: list […]