Winter Weather continues to effect Library Hours

Winter Weather Advisory - Wed Feb 13th
Sloppy weather continues to make driving treacherous and road conditions exciting. Many libraries have opened, but with a delay.
Please call your library to ensure that they are open for business.
Due to a large-area electrical outage, the Kreutz Creek Library in Hellam is closed. They will re-open when power has been restored.

Libraries are open on January 21st

We celebrate Martin Luther King Day by keeping our Libraries open, so that people may read, learn, and enrich their lives.

Same wonderful library, new exciting name -

At a recent dedication ceremony, the Southern York County Library was renamed the Paul Smith Library of Southern York County. Smith’s generous contribution of saleable land to the facility’s capital campaign resulted in a gift of more than one-half million dollars.


Paul Smith, a native York County businessman and World War II veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, started Paul L. Smith Builders in 1946. In Southern York County, Smith built the Southern Farms Development, Oakwood Manor, Eastwood Townhomes, a portion of Forest Lakes, Market Square Shopping Center, Freedom Hills, Slyder Estates, and Boundary Road Apartments, in addition to many private homes.

Friday Nights @ Your Library

Starting March 7th - Friday Night at the Library!

Friday hours are to be extended! The Mason Dixon Public Library will be open to the public from Noon to 8:00 p.m., every Friday night.

This is terrific for weekend movie selection, and opportunity at research for school or personal interest, a nice place to meet other like-minded individuals, and a lovely facility!

Come check us out - lifelong learning and something for everyone @ your library.

Tell us what you think!

If you have joined the Summer Reading Club, we're asking you what you think.

Now Adults can register themselves online (sorry teens and kids - for now it's still F2F for you)

Everyone can write a book review.

Adults, Teens, and Kids who write book review will see it appear on the website within a few days.

Not only that, but we're also interested in finding out what folks think about the events held at the different libraries.

Many libraries are offering prizes; your review is like a raffle ticket, and there are no limits to how often you may enter.

So... check and see what's happening at your library.

And remember - when it's hot you can come inside someplace cool and relax with a nice book.

RSS feeds of all event types and locations are here

Libraries: answering trivia and earnest questions since 1879

If you're not familiar with this logo, you really need to aquaint yourself. This FREE service is FREELY available for FREE 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (except major holidays when the Librarians are FREE to do what they wish)

Now we know that you use Google. We're not even bitter about it, because we have a little secret; Google doesn't always have the answers. Sometimes, it even has the totally wrong answer altogether. And don't even get us started on Wikipedia.

So when you're looking at a bazillion wrong answers to what should be an easy question, and you're ready to throw things at the monitor, why not give us a try?

If you're questioning the value of something that's free, here's a suggestion; try out Ask Here PA. If you're pleased, but uneasy about something for nothing, why not write a check out to York County Libraries?

Or, cheerfully and happily keep your money, secure in the knowlege that you have a good answer.

Free!

somewhere, someone
really fell for this

news of web 2.0

The Technology Taskforce attended the "Computers in Libraries" conference, and came back with new skills, saw some great opportunities, and some facinating information as it relates to Libraries and technology.

From Becky Shives, the Director of Village Library, we get the following:

The title of the opening day keynote address at the Computers in Libraries conference was "Web 2.0 and What It Means to Libraries". The speaker, Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, focused on six aspects of the Web 2.0 world that should matter to libraries.

Number 1: "The Internet has become the computer." Translation: More people use the Internet, more often, and from more places. More people have faster connections, which makes video more prevalent and makes people's use of the Internet more social. Here are some stats:

• In 2000, 62% of American adults had a computer--but only 46% had Internet access. Today, 75% have a computer and 73% have Internet access.
  
• At the same time home broadband access (cable, DSL, etc. as opposed to dial up) has increased from 3% to 46%.
  
  
• Because of broadband, video has become a large part of the online experience. 85% of young broadband users have watched video online. 19% have posted videos.
  
  
• On a typical day, 49% of the public go online; up from 24% in 2000.
  
  
• People go online from more places: 89% of teens go online from home; 75% from school; 70% from a friend or relative's computer; and 50% from a library.
  
  
• Other things teens do online:
  67% play games online with others;
  67% share photos; and
  39% share computer files.