In the Know

The 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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The 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 registration information to mail-in and absentee ballots to polling locations, this is the Commonwealth’s best...
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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 options at local museums: Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (Strasburg) has a series of 360 degree photo virtual tour of several of its trains....
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I 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 that of a grave. The grave is that of Ambrose Magee, a Civil War Veteran...
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What 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 head on and devour dystopian classics such as The Stand by Stephen King (Axis 360)...
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SummerQuest is coming soon to the Dillsburg Area Public Library, and it will feel different this year.  Events will be online unless we get the go-ahead to safely meet in small or large groups at the library.  Our 800 minute reading challenge lives on, and our programs will give kids plenty of opportunities to learn...
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My 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 Information Science at Messiah College. On March 13, we were advised to inform our students...
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I 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 get the ‘lay of the land” before actually seeing the land. I use it to...
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Hi, 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 card. This book is in line with what I typically read: non-fiction, especially military history....
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Find 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 Public Library’s website. Submit your answers by emailing [email protected] by midnight May 15 and you...
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