Category: Richmond Public Library

What has the Richmond Public library got to do with the Richmond Haunted House? Well lets see.
Both librarians work in the haunted house. Local library kids come to the haunted house. The haunted house gives a donation to the library. What more could you want?

Every year the haunted house has set aside a time just for little kids to go through. So of course our librarians let the story hour kids to go. Where else can the kids in town get to go through a haunted house for free? [or they could make a donation].

Every on who works in the haunted house has some kind of connection to the library. The two youngest workers use to attend story hour when they were little, and their moms work in the library. One of the fortune tellers use to be a board member and still uses the library. One of the maze ghouls and her husband one of the creatures in the dark comes in the library all the time and her kids also use the library. The chainsaw guy is the library handy man, when something needs fixing we call him to see if he can fix it.

Also sometimes it just plain fun to be scared!

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October 22nd was Halloween Craft Day at the Richmond Public Library. Kids were invited to come into the library and make Halloween crafts. This year the kids made two Halloween crafts and were given a small pumpkin to take home.

There were close to 20 kids here for Halloween Craft Day, that’s a lot in this little space but we made do and the kids seemed to have a good time.

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October is a fun month for the Richmond Story Hour kids. We get to make Halloween crafts. Sometimes the librarian will bring in some of her Halloween decorations. The kids get to go Trick-or-Treating down main street of Richmond. It’s just a fun time for all.

This year we made hand print spiders, tissue paper ghosts, Canning Jar Mummies, and the librarian brought a really scary decorations to story hour. The kids were not real sure about it. One ran into the other room and one hid under the table. It went home that night. This month the story hour kids also got to have some face painting [and hand painting] and the kids got to wear Vampire teeth.

On Wednesday, October 31st the story hour kids will be trick-or-treating the main street businesses.

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Richmond Public Libraries two librarians were gone on Thursday, September 27th, They were attending the 17th annual NEST [NEKLS Educations System Training]. Each September for the past 5 years Richmond has had someone from the library attend this annual event.

This year the Richmond librarians learned about digital photography for the library, A State Setoff program for delinquent library debts, building a Christian collection, making our own library video, and much more. There was also time set aside for the librarians to just talk to each other. This time is alway invaluable. This is when you can learn from others what worked, what didn’t, what’s happening in their library. Talking face to face is also fun. It’s nice to get to know people.

The Barn in Valley Falls if a beautiful relaxing place to be. When you are having a break you can walk the beautiful grounds or just sit on the deck by the fish pond.

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The library will again this year be having a Halloween Craft Day. The crafts for this year are still be decided on. Watch for sign at the library and for those of you attending Central Heights notes will be sent home for the elementary kids with the date and time.

The tentative date right now is October 22nd at 4:30 p.m.…