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Given that opportunities for entertainment are limited this summer, I’ve been trying to keep myself from sitting at home when I’m not at the library. One way I’ve done this is to get out to try out the Go York program. So far I’ve done 13 hikes (including 2 for Go Adams) with my wife,...
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August means that summer is winding down! Find out when summer programs wrap up in our latest Happen here!...
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Our SummerQuest kids have been busy reading this year.  Want to know what our young readers recommend?  Check out these reviews! New Reviews In July, we received this review from a second grade girl.  We appreciated this review so much that we ordered the two most recent books in the series for our library.  Look for...
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What’s Independence Day? The United States’ Independence Day, also called the Fourth of July, is a US national holiday that commemorates the United States’ declaration of independence from Great Britain. Today, when we refer to the ‘Declaration of Independence,’ we generally refer to the physical document. In 1776, what was seen as important were the...
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The July 2020 Happenings is available here! The Library is open for lobby pick-up as of June 15. For more information on reopening following the COVID-19 shutdown, visit open.yorklibraries.org....
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June is Pride month! What’s Pride Month? June celebrates LGBTQIA+ people and their struggle for recognition and rights in the eyes of the law. LGBTQIA+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual. The + (plus) indicates all other orientations and genders.  Pride Month is celebrated in June to commemorate the Stonewall Riots (aka...
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Here are the Adult Summer Reading Recommendations: 8/1/20 Recommendations 7/25/20 Recommendations 7/18/20 Recommendations 7/11/20 Recommendations 7/4/20 Recommendations 6/27/20 Recommendations 6/20/20 Recommendations   Information on Summer Reading can be found here: https://www.yorklibraries.org/dillsburg/2020/06/08/adult-summer-reading-2020/...
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What is Juneteenth? It is a holiday celebrated across the U.S. (including Pennsylvania) that marks the date the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned of the official abolition of slavery in the states belonging to the Confederacy. It is also called Freedom Day, Emancipation Day, Cel-Liberation Day, and Jubilee Day; in PA, its official...
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CALLING ALL ADULT SUMMER READERS! The library is again offering our adult readers the chance to win weekly prizes and share their summer reads with other book lovers! This summer the program will be available to you online. Here’s how it works: For each book or audiobook you complete starting June 15, email the title,...
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