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Free online course starting 20 April with #NYCCAdultLearningServices. Telephone and email contact details shown on the full poster below. This is one of many new courses Adult Learning Services are offering online. #anxiety #managinganxiety.

Thanks very much to Ann, Jackie and Wendy for replying to #FileyLibrary on our "many happy returns" day poser. Thanks Jackie also for mentioning that he wasn't just known as "Nicholas Rhea." Sadly Peter Walker died in 2017. Of his over 100 published books, some are available now for download from www.northyorks.gov.uk/digital-library.

Thanks for taking part in our first weekly Library Quiz!
The new quiz starts on Wednesday next week at 10am and is all for the children! We’ll be asking 3 questions each day set to test the knowledge and fact finding skills of any young detective!
Make sure you follow your local library for the questions, and search the online library catalogue for the answers!! You might be surprised at what you can find there.

Library Quiz Day 5. Here's the correct answers:
Answer one: Julius Caesar
Answer two: £80,000!
... Answer three: Laurence Sterne (1713–68) Tristram Shandy (1759–67) bk. 1, ch. 22
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A Happy an safe Easter everyone. Make sure you find all those eggs. They are going to melt in this heat - our promised weather at last!

Final day of this week’s Library Quiz! Post your answers below and check back at 6pm for the correct answers!
Question one: Who is the month of July named after?
Question two: What was the value of Charles Dickens estate that is stated on his will?
... Question three: Who wrote “Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;—they are the life, the soul of reading;—take them out of this book for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them.”
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The current #FileyLibrary building was opened on the 11 April 1995. The digital version of #FileyBayToday featured the 1933 photo of the originals building. Had enough of quizzes (?! ), can anyone remember who opened the Library in 1995?

Day 4 Library quiz answers: Answer one: Only one painting sold
Answer two: 19 rings
... Answer three: 'Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is not' - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Library Quiz day four! Post your answers below. We'll post correct answers at 6pm
Question one: How many paintings did Van Gogh sell in his lifetime?
Question two: In Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of The Rings’ there was ‘one ring to rule them all’. How many other rings were made?
... Question three: What was the title of Florence Nightingale's work that was published in January 1860?
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Answer one: The first recorded ‘bug’ was imaginary.
Answer two: We have 41 libraries and one mobile library!
Answer three: Cuckoo, and fox... The rabbit, or bunny, became a part of the Easter tradition in Protestant areas in Europe in the 17th century. By the 19th century the rabbit was common throughout Easter celebrations. The Easter rabbit was said to lay eggs and then decorate and hide them.
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Spread the word - during the lockdown FREE access to Ancestry.com and Find My Past from home if you’re a library member.

Library quiz day three! Post your answers below. We'll give the correct answers at 6pm tonight
Question one: Was the first computer ‘bug’ a real insect or imaginary?
Question two: How many libraries are there in the County of North Yorkshire?
... Question three: Which animal brings Easter Eggs in Switzerland? And which animal in north western Germany?
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Answer one: 227! Did you expect that many? There’s a huge amount of magazines on every subject!
Answer two: A Primate of Madagascar, related to the lemur
Answer three: Soft rock
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Library quiz day two! Post your answers below. Answers at 6pm tonight.
Question one: How many Health and Fitness magazines are available on Press Reader?
Question two: What is an aye-aye?
... Question three: Name the term invented in the early 1970's to describe pop music which used electric instruments
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Answer one: From the library ‘browse, reserve, renew page’, there is a box on the bottom left titled “Reading Inspirations”. Here you will find ‘Fantastic Fiction’ to find all books by that author, or ‘Who else writes like’ to find similar authors. Cross reference to the digital catalogue to find e-book versions.
Answer two: Matt Lucas
Answer three: Which? Magazine. It maintains its independence by not accepting advertising, and the organisation receives no government fundin...g. The Consumers' Association is the largest consumer organisation in the UK, with over 573,000 subscribers to its magazine.
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Thanks to local author @PatriciaComb1 for highlighting this powerful graphic.