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July / August 2023 Staff Picks

July / August 2023 Staff Picks

Aug 2, 2023 | , ,

What a busy summer! Try one of our favorite reads while you try to beat the heat.  Michelle: How Can I Help You by Laura Sims Sims' novel is a compulsively readable psychological thriller appearing on over a dozen "Best of" lists. Margo works as a Library Assistant in a sleepy little town. No one has any idea Margo isn't her real name. Or that she used to be a nurse - a nurse accused of killing her patients. When a library patron dies in the restroom, something seems off to Patricia, the new...

100 YEARS of York history is now online: Welcome to the York History Digital Archive!

100 YEARS of York history is now online: Welcome to the York History Digital Archive!

Jul 11, 2023 |

York Public Library, in partnership with Old York Historical Society, Advantage Preservation, and The York Weekly, is pleased to announce the long-awaited unveiling of the York History Digital Archive. Thanks to a generous grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, 100 years’ worth of York Weekly, its predecessors, related supplements, and miscellaneous ephemera has been completely digitized. It is relatively common for small town papers not to retain a physical archive of their...

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Meet Devin, our new Reference and Technology Librarian!

Sep 28, 2021 | ,

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 teach people how to use...

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August/September 2021 Staff Picks

Sep 7, 2021 | ,

Get cozy with a cup of tea and a great book. Here are the staff picks for August and September! Michele: This Little Light by Lori LansensThis captivating story takes place in the near future, over 48 hours. Timely book touching upon abortion, social media, and women’s rights in this coming of age...

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Auction Reflections from our Auction Committee Co-Chairs

Jul 14, 2021 | ,

“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 does every day to live out the...

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Staff Picks July 2021

Jul 8, 2021 | ,

Need something new to read? Check out our staff picks for July, and then sign up for the 2021 annual York Public Library Summer Challenge. There is still time! Jeanine: The Guest List by Lucy Foley   An Agatha Christie type of who dunnit complete with an inscrutable cast of characters, a remote...

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