YCL E-News July 2024

YCL E-NEWS July 2024
Have a Look at What’s New for York County Library!

June 5 – July 28 • All Ages • Register Now!

Don't miss your chance for awesome prize drawings and reading incentives –join the "Adventure Begins at Your Library" Summer Learning Challenge! Register online and use our fun, interactive Beanstack service to get digital badges as you progress, book recommendations by email, and more.
 
Visit yclibrary.org/slc for full details, and check out our exciting July lineup of children's performances below!

Children's Summer Learning Performances

We hope you've enjoyed all our summer children's events, and we especially thank the Friends of the York County Library for its continued sponsorship. We also acknowledge the S.C. State Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services for generously awarding YCL with a Library Services and Technology Act grant, which helped fund our Columbia Marionette Theater puppet show.

There's more to come! Enjoy these other great performers at your YCL branch: 

READasaurus Adventure:
July 9–12: Join Mark Daniel and Steggie as they share great books with your young READasauruses! This program combines books and book discussions, storytelling, magic tricks, puppetry, and audience participation with the notion that we learn and are influenced in many different ways, on many different levels.

Magical Adventures: July 16–19: Young and old alike will be dazzled by the witty magical style and storytelling of Fish the Magish!
 
Drum4Work: July 23–26: Let's rock to the beat of drums around the world with sonic artist Jeff Holland! Don't miss this educational musical exploration that promotes multicultural awareness and the rhythms of life.

YCL Joins World's Largest Digital Book Club

Ready for the next Big Library Read? From July 11–25, YCL cardholders can borrow award-winning author Andrew X. Pham's Twilight Territory from our digital collection, with no waitlists or holds. A sweeping story of love, war, and resistance in post-World War II Vietnam, this lushly panoramic, gritty, and profoundly moving novel offers a fascinating perspective on Vietnam's struggles to break free of its French colonial past.  

Access Libby through our Virtual Library to get Twilight Territory now! You can also visit biglibraryread.com, where you can join the discussion board and find out how to win a selection of bookish prizes!

FaxScan24: Convenient, Affordable Fax Service 

Our self-serve FaxScan24 kiosks are now available at all YCL locations! FaxScan24 offers convenient, easy faxing worldwide. It's also fast, secure, reliable, and affordable, priced at just $1.75 for the first page and $1 for each additional page (within the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean).
 
Pay for your faxes directly at the kiosk using your VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, or Discover credit/debit card. No cash can be accepted. 

Receive your fax confirmations by text or by calling 1-800-468-2748. You can also check the status of your fax online. Learn more at yclibrary.org/fax.

hoopla Adds New Bonus Borrows, Bingepasses

Attention, hoopla fans! Now you can enjoy Bonus Borrows more often! Choose from select titles without using your monthly borrows. No borrows? No problem! Bonus Borrows don't count against your limit, and they're available the last seven days of each month. Get hoopla now at our Virtual Library, and browse over 1 million audiobooks, eBooks, comics, movies, TV shows, and more!

Want to borrow even more content without using all your monthly borrows? Explore hoopla BingePass, a 7-day pass that gives you unlimited access to streaming collections — with just one borrow! New BingePasses include:

Christmas in July on Hallmark Movies: Soak up some holiday cheer with Hallmark's annual fan-favorite event and enjoy 140 new holiday movies.
 
Get Healthy U TV: Turn your living room into the ultimate fitness studio! The diverse, expert-led workouts include cardio, yoga, kickboxing, and more.
 
Gardening with Monty Don: Embark on a heartwarming garden journey with over 300 episodes of the UK's acclaimed series, Gardeners' World.

York County Library Hours & Closing Notices
All Locations: Monday–Thursday, 9 a.m.–7 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.–6 p.m.
Main Library (Rock Hill), Fort Mill, & Lake Wylie: Saturday, 9 a.m.–6 p.m.
Clover & York: Saturday, 9 a.m.–2 p.m.

Independence Day: All YCL locations will be closed Thursday, July 4.
 
Friends Books on Main will be open July Fourth! Shop a wide selection of books, DVDs, CDs, and audiobooks for all ages at 206 E. Main St. in Old Town Rock Hill, every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

Check out Freegal Music+ for unlimited music streaming and 3 song downloads each week! Listen to albums, your own playlists, and curated playlists (including selections by Library staff), all ad-free.

Academic skills are like other skills: use them or lose them. Keep your brain sharp! Explore the Online Summer Skills Camp from Brainfuse, and you'll discover the topics you want to learn more about.