Autentica Pasta Italiana with Michele!

Having grown up in Italy, my great-grandfather expected the family over for dinner every Sunday. Homemade pasta, or macaroni as we called it, was just one of the items on the menu, usually served sometime after an appetizer and before a meat or fish dish. My...

Meet Devin, our new Reference and Technology Librarian!

Originally published in the York Weekly  My name is Devin, and I am the newly minted Reference and Technology Librarian at the York Public Library. If you need help with local history, reference, or technology, I’m your guy! My favorite thing to do in a library is to...

Happy Library Card Sign-up Month from York Public Library!

September! We’ve got it marked in the calendar, we’ve been counting down the days … Haven’t you? This month is a special time for libraries: September is Library Card Sign-up Month! Here you were thinking it was just National Sewing Month and International Update Your...

Auction Reflections from our Auction Committee Co-Chairs

“Enriching Lives. Inspiring Minds. Creating Community”: These three phrases express the York Public Library’s central mission. Those of us who worked to put on the first online YPL Auction came to understand how much the people of York appreciate the work the Library...

Juneteenth: Reading Recommendations from YPL Staff

For the first time, we are celebrating Juneteenth–also known as Freedom Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day–as a federal holiday. It is the annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.  Juneteenth dates back to June 19, 1865 when...