June Happenings
May 26th, 2020The Dillsburg Area Public Library will be reopening for lobby pick-up on June 15 (more details will be announced soon). SummerQuest will be online this year! Find all about it in June Happenings.
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Election Day is Coming!
May 22nd, 2020The COVID-19 crisis has changed many things in everyday life, including the 2020 Primary Election. In Pennsylvania, this Election Day has been moved to June 2nd. One of the best resources that is available for voting information is VOTESPA.com. From...
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Museum Virtual Tours
May 22nd, 2020[caption id="attachment_1273" align="alignright" width="191"] AACA Museum[/caption] Many different museums are working to bring their work to us at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, you can use Google Maps to tour many places, but below are a few other...
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Restoring An Ancestor’s Grave
May 20th, 2020I knew exactly where to find the grave. That sounds like the opening of a horror story, but this is not a horror story. It is, I hope, a story about restoration, literal and figurative. The literal restoration is indeed...
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Revisiting Old Favorites
May 20th, 2020What kind of quarantine reader are you? Do you long to escape these troubled times and immerse yourself in historical fiction like Graham Greene’s 1951 bestseller The End of the Affair (Hoopla)? Or do you prefer to confront the pandemic...
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Impressions of Teaching Online
May 14th, 2020My current life’s work is shared between two part time jobs. You may have seen me as a Library Assistant at the Dillsburg Area Public Library, but during the school year I am also an adjunct instructor in Computer and...
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Google Street View Tours
May 11th, 2020I have long been a fan of Google Maps and, in particular, its Street View mode. I use it if I am traveling to a new place or even to better understand geographic relationships. When going somewhere new, I use to...
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Book Review: American Gun
May 10th, 2020Hi, I'm Keith Greenawalt from the Dillsburg Area Public Library, part of York County Libraries. I've been reading American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms by Chris Kyle with William Doyle, available on Axis360 with your library...
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How Well Do You Know The Dillsburg Area Public Library?
May 4th, 2020Find out how well you know the Library by participating in our FACEBOOK TRIVIA GAME. While we all await our beloved library's re-opening, have a little fun with our trivia quiz which will be posted this week on the Dillsburg...
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A Reading Guide for Spring 2020
May 4th, 2020I have four categories of books here. They overlap a little, based on four possible psychological approaches to our current conditions. Rather than mention specific titles, I prefer a broader approach dealing with collections based on one writer or even...
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