Riverview Public Library

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Get started at HCPLC.org/eBooks.

Learn about the beneficial insects you can find in your garden, relax with some good old-fashioned coloring, upgrade your Google Drive know-how, or enjoy the Japanese art form of taiko drumming with Tampa Taiko in an interactive program at our libraries next week!

Find these programs and many more at HCPLC.org/Events.

The Riverview Public Library invites you to explore their makerspace during their Makerspace Open House and Open Labs. Discover and try out button makers, laser cutters, sewing machines, a 3D printer, and more. Visit HCPLC.org/Events/ to sign up or ask a librarian for details.

Opening its current building on April 5, 2021, the Riverview Public Library celebrates its 5th anniversary today. The new building serves the expanding Riverview area and surrounding communities, which outgrew the original location that served them since 1979. We look forward to the new location being a valuable resource for decades as well.

Relax with some good old-fashioned coloring, create your own work of art inspired by pieces from The Ringling, learn about the ways in which comics tell stories, or watch a classic movie for free at our libraries this upcoming week.

Join us for these events and discover more at HCPLC.org/Events.

Are our libraries your happy place? This library fan and proud parent let us know how our libraries have become a positive space for her child:

"Our son who is on the spectrum and is very gifted in reading has found the library to be his happy place. Checking out books is his favorite activity to do as a homeschooler."

Share your library story at HCPLC.org/Stories.

Lots of smiling faces came out to Read for the Record recently at the Riverview Public Library. This annual event highlights early literacy awareness with people all over the world reading the same book on the same day.

These kids enjoyed this years title, 𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸, and worked on their green thumbs while decorating pots for their own basil plants.

While this was a special event, you can enjoy Story Time all year long. Get started at HCPLC.org/StoryTime.

Help us break the world record for the most people reading the same book on the same day! Read Jumpstart’s Read for the Record featured book, 𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸 by Marcus Bridgewater.

A grandmother passes down her love and respect for nature to her young grandson while they have fun working together in her garden.

Join us tomorrow, February 26, at 10:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., at the Riverview Public Library to Read for the Record.

Fifty years ago today the Riverview Branch Library held its dedication ceremony!

Library service to the community began with the Riverview Station, a bookmobile stop at a local grocery store. A group of citizens formed the Riverview Library Association when they saw the need for a library building to better serve the communities of Riverview, South Brandon, Progress Village and Gibsonton. With the Gardinier Corporation’s donation of land previously used as a worm farm, the 8,000 sq. ft. Riverview Branch Library opened on November 18, 1979.

These photographs were digitized from time capsule contents, created by the Riverview Library Association and the Riverview Woman’s Club to commemorate the US bicentennial celebration in 1976.

Check out more Riverview library history in our digital archives at ow.ly/vevX50YcTWx.

The following Story Time programs have been cancelled at the Riverview Public Library:

• Bilingual Story Time - Wednesday, January 28 at 10:15 a.m. & 11 a.m.

Attend a program at a different location: HCPLC.org/StoryTime
Access programs on-demand from anywhere: YouTube.com/TampaHillsLib