Upcoming Events

May
13
11:00am - 2:00pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
May
16
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
May
19
10:15am - 12:15pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Jun
7
10:00am - 12:00pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Jun
12
5:00pm - 7:00pm, Hull Street.
Jun
16
10:15am - 12:15pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Jun
17
5:30pm - 6:30pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Jun
28
2:00pm - 3:30pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Jul
5
10:00am - 12:00pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Jul
10
5:00pm - 7:00pm, Hull Street.
Jul
21
10:15am - 12:15pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Jul
26
3:30pm - 5:00pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Aug
2
10:00am - 12:00pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Aug
14
5:00pm - 7:00pm, Hull Street.
Aug
18
10:15am - 12:15pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Aug
26
5:30pm - 7:30pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Sep
6
10:00am - 12:00pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Sep
11
5:00pm - 7:00pm, Hull Street.
Sep
15
10:15am - 12:15pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.
Sep
16
5:30pm - 6:30pm, Hull Street Meeting Room.

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Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Meldon Jenkins-Jones is the Richmond Public Library / Community Services Manager at Hull Street Branch Library. 

Meldon also chairs the Get Lit Advisory Committee which supports the Richmond Public Library Get Lit Reading Initiatives including the Black Male Emergent Readers (BMER) program and the Lit Chicks Read book clubs.

Meldon is a graduate of the Leadership Metro Richmond Class of 2022. She was the first recipient of the Virginia Library Association (VLA) Librarians of Color Forum Award in 2021 and is an active member of VLA. She presented “Libraries Bringing Community Together” at the 2023 VLA Annual Conference.

In 2011, Meldon received her Master of Library and Information Studies from Florida State University. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers University School of Law—Newark and practiced law in New Jersey until her retirement in 2003. Meldon received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she studied African American Studies and Russian Civilization.

A Metro Richmond resident, Meldon is the mother of two adult children and enjoys spending time with her grandchildren.