Events

Ages 6-12 are welcome to join us for weekly books and activities!

Note* For 2/2/26 program, please bring a 4 by 6 photo of the child attending for an art project.

 2/23/26 we will have a movie day!

Register HERE 

Need help with one of your personal devices such as a cellphone, laptop, tablet, or ereader? Join us on the second Tuesday of every month from 9:30-10:30 AM for Tech Tutoring! No registration is required for this class, just drop in!

Bring your babies and toddlers for a short story, rhymes, movement, songs and more. This is a great way to introduce them to the library!

Join Liz for weekly* Crafternoons at the library! We will have the following supplies, but you are always welcome to bring your own:

• Paint, paint brushes, paint markers
• Canvases, ceramic shapes, and rocks
• Coloring books
• Markers and colored pencils
• Pony beading supplies
• Boondoggle supplies

The program will be typically held in the Gallery Room but is subject to be moved to another space. 

*This program may not always be supervised in full by a library staff member, and the artistic direction/decisions for crafts is up to participants

The regular meeting of the Richmond Memorial Library Board of Trustees is on the second Tuesday of each month at 6 pm in the Gallery Room, unless otherwise noted. 

2025-2026 Meeting Schedule:
2025
Tuesday, July 8 at 6 pm
Tuesday, August 12 at 6 pm
Tuesday, September 9 at 6 pm
Tuesday, October 14 at 6 pm
Tuesday, November 18 at 6 pm *third Tuesday due to Veteran's Day Holiday
Tuesday, December 9 at 6 pm 

2026
Tuesday, January 13 at 6 pm
Tuesday, February 10 at 6 pm
Tuesday, March 10 at 6 pm
Tuesday, April 14 at 6 pm
Tuesday, May 12 at 6 pm
Tuesday, June 9 at 6 pm

Pursuant to the Library's Open Meetings Policy
Adopted Rules for the Public Recording, Photographing, Broadcasting, or Webcasting of a Meeting:
1.    No extension cords or other potential tripping hazards may be set up.
2.    No flash photography or additional lighting may be used.
3.    No recording instrument shall be closer than four feet of a meeting participant, without that person’s express consent.
4.    All equipment should be silent enough to not cause a disruption.
5.    Equipment must not block aisles or exits and may not impede the view of other attendees.
6.    Equipment must be maintained, monitored, and always attended by the owner of said equipment.
7.    The Richmond Memorial Library is not responsible for damaged, lost, or malfunctioning equipment.
8.    The “Guest” Wi-Fi network may be used by the public attending meetings.

The privilege to record in this manner at the library is limited to open meetings of the board. When enforcing this rule with regards to the manner of recording, the Board of Trustees shall ensure that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and Article I, Section 8 of the New York constitution are honored.

The complete Open Meetings Policy can be found in the "About" section of the Library's webpage.

 

Celebrate amazing book characters with crafts and a scavenger hunt in the children's room! .

Join us for our January adult book discussions of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix on Monday, January 5 at 6:30 pm and Wednesday, January 14 at 9:30 am.

Genre: Vampire Fiction/ Horror Fiction  408 pages

Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a blood-sucking fiend.

Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they're more likely to discuss the FBI's recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood.

But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club's meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he's a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she--and her book club--are the only people standing between the monster they've invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community.

Copies are available one month prior to discussion. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.