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September 2023 Staff Picks

September 2023 Staff Picks

Sep 1, 2023 | ,

Longer nights and shorter days makes for great reading weather! Try one of our favorites! Barb: Stuntboy by Jason Reynolds  Favorite author and smattered with cool illustrations by Raul the Third. Wimpy Kid fans will like this one. About a sweet, anxious kid trying to be a superhero to protect people from pain.    Isabelle: Eerie Tales from the School of Screams  by Annable Graham “Eerie Tales from the School of Screams” is the newest creation of Graham Annable, one of my all-time...

York Public Library to host John Palfrey, President of the MacArthur Foundation, on September 9

York Public Library to host John Palfrey, President of the MacArthur Foundation, on September 9

Aug 10, 2023 |

York Public Library will host educator, author, legal scholar, and innovator John Palfrey of The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for the Library’s inaugural program in the Dan Bancroft Memorial Lecture Series. “Combating Censorship and Misinformation: Civic Engagement in a Digital Era” will be the first annual event sponsored by The Dan Bancroft Memorial Endowment for Civic Leadership and Engagement at York Public Library, which was created in memory of the Library’s late Board...

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Shelf Life: READ WOKE Challenge

Jul 1, 2020 | ,

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 has launched a special, ongoing reading...

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Join the Library’s Summer Reading Challenge!

Jun 25, 2020 | ,

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 called Beanstack. Participants of...

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Black Lives Matter. Period.

Jun 11, 2020 | ,

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...

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