YPL Gets a Digital Facelift

Originally published on SeacoastOnline.com COVID-19 has afforded Library staff much-needed time to reorganize our materials and refresh our displays. But it has also given us time to update our digital presence. If, in the past week, you’ve spent any time reserving...

Book List: Women’s Suffrage

In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment, we’ve put together a list of books and DVDs from our collection about the Women’s Suffrage Movement. One hundred years ago this year, after  75 YEARS of fighting…after hunger...

Shelf Life: READ WOKE Challenge

As outrage, protests, and marches continue to shake our nation in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and others, we encourage our community – adults, children, and teens – to elevate, amplify and support Black voices. To that end, York Public Library...

Join the Library’s Summer Reading Challenge!

Is the library hosting the annual Summer Challenge program? Coronavirus can’t keep us down! All of us at York Public Library are excited to announce that we will offer our annual Summer Challenge program. This year we are testing out a new (to us) online program...

Black Lives Matter. Period.

I am a fierce believer in the role of libraries not only as purveyors of knowledge and understanding, but as places for communal civic discourse. Our nation is being torn apart by the recent horrific deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless others at the...