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The Orpheus Descent will be available free from all libraries from Thursday 10 July. Look out for copies when out and about across the city.
Visit your local library today to get your Big City Read brochure which details all of the activities and events happening across the City over the summer
I have never written down the answers to the deepest mysteries, nor will I ever…
The philosopher Plato wrote these words more than two thousand years ago, following a perilous voyage to Italy — an experience about which he never spoke again, but from which he emerged the greatest thinker in all of human history.
Today, twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes, working on a dig in southern Italy, has just found another. But the thirteenth tablet is different. This tablet names the location to the mouth of hell itself. And then Lily vanishes.
Has she walked out on her job, her marriage, and her life — or has something more sinister happened? Her husband, Jonah, is desperate to find her. But no one can help him: not the police; not the secretive foundation that sponsored her dig; not even a circle of university friends who seem to know more than they’re saying. All Jonah has is belief, and a determination to do whatever it takes to get Lily back.
But like Plato before him, Jonah will discover the journey ahead is mysterious and dark and fraught with danger. And not everyone who travels to the hidden place where Lily has gone can return.
Being a volunteer for the Summer Reading Challenge is the best thing to do this summer – it's going to be amazing! pic.twitter.com/qYexbiccu9
— AcombExplore Library (@acombexplore) June 5, 2014
Booksale on Saturday 19th April 2014
Acomb Library, Front Street
9:00am – 2:00pm
Fill a carrier bag for £5
Students, independent researchers and small businesses can now access many of the world’s best academic papers across science, technology, medicine and other disciplines through York’s Libraries and Explore centres.
This is the result of a unique collaboration between librarians and publishers, who have made their journal content available for free to UK libraries under a new initiative, Access to Research.
Access to Research will provide licensed online access to over 1.5 million journal articles and conference proceedings through library terminals. With 8,400 journals included in the initiative at the moment, this will make content in the fields of Health and Biological Sciences (20%), Social Sciences (18%) and Engineering (14%) available to the public for the first time. Users will also be able to read a wide variety of articles in the fields of Art and Architecture, Business, Environmental Science, History, Journalism, Languages, Politics, Film, Philosophy and Religion, Mathematics and Physics.
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IT'S TOMORROW!Are you interested in getting more involved with your library service?Come be part of our new journey! pic.twitter.com/nkhZUaIPWT
— AcombExplore Library (@acombexplore) March 11, 2014
Dringhouses Library
A freedom of information request has revealed that the Dringhouses Library building was gifted to the Council in 1942 for use only as a “Library or for other public uses”.
The revelation comes at a time when there are increasing concerns about the future of small libraries.
The Labour Councils decided to cut the libraries budget by £250,000 in 2013/14 and a further £150,000 in the forthcoming financial year.
The library service is now in the hands of an independent social enterprise trust which is currently looking to appoint new Directors
There will be an Open Evening at Acomb Explore, Front Street, Acomb, on Wednesday 12 March from 4pm – 6 pm, for anybody who would like to learn more. The management team and other Explore directors will be in attendance and able to answer questions. The person specification and role information for the new posts and can be found here.
To express interest in becoming a Community Director or the Finance Director of Explore, email fiona.williams@york.gov.uk by 24 March 2014.
#adventcalendar.Window 3 is opened & it's a carol singer,come and see our own carol singers on 12 December at 7pm! pic.twitter.com/YmrGmsGHwL
— Acomb Explore (@acombexplore) December 3, 2013
The new archive is part of the Heritage Lottery Fund-supported Gateway to History project to preserve and open up the city’s internationally-important archives to people across the city and indeed the world.
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The works at York Explore will include the construction of a new state-of-the-art conservation store for the archives and a sensitive refurbishment of the existing first floor to create new spaces for people to discover the city’s extensively-recorded history.
Essential work on the roof and floor will also be carried out to on the Grade II listed library building at the same time as installing a new energy-efficient heating system, repairing the roof, refreshing the layout of the ground floor and the very successful café.
The Gateway to History project received a £1.5m HLF grant in December 2012.
Hands up who loves Shark in the Dark by Nick Sharratt! Come by on Thursday 10.30 for storytime and join in the fun! pic.twitter.com/Ecwa0YCF7T
— Acomb Explore (@acombexplore) November 26, 2013