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July / August 2023 Staff Picks
Aug 2, 2023 | Book Lists, News, Staff Picks
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!
Jul 11, 2023 | News
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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Black Lives Matter. Period.
Jun 11, 2020 | From the Director, News
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 hands of police—the...
COVID UPDATE: An Important Message from York Public Library
Mar 15, 2020 | COVID-19, From the Director, News
Due to the public health concerns surrounding the COVID-19 virus, York Public Library has made the decision to temporarily close its doors. We serve a large number of visitors on a daily basis, many of whom fall within the population most at risk for coronavirus. We do not arrive at this decision...
A Special Message from Michelle Sampson, Library Director
Mar 12, 2020 | COVID-19, From the Director, News
Dear friends, Though our fellow New England states have already been grappling with the coronavirus (COVID-19), it wasn’t until yesterday that news broke of Maine’s first documented case. It is within this context we wanted to take the opportunity to share the following information with you. First...
