Kreutz Creek Library, 66 Walnut Springs Road, York, is open for lobby pickup. Patrons may place holds on items using http://www.yorklibraries.org and selecting Kreutz Creek Library as their pickup location. Readers will be contacted when their item is ready for pickup. Pickup hours are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays and from 2 to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays through Thursdays. Items may be picked up in the library's vestibule. Masks are required for all persons entering the library. If a library member is inside the vestibule when another arrives to pick up items, the new arrival should wait to enter the library until the first visitor has exited.

Kreutz Creek Library will also offer some virtual programs in January.

Monday Evening Family Story Times on Zoom will be held at 6:30 p.m. with Miss Kelly from the Guthrie Memorial Library. Readers must register to receive a Zoom link by accessing Guthrie Library's calendar events for January at http://www.yorklibraries.org/events/2021-01/, opening the Monday event listings, and selecting Monday Evening Story Time.

Story times will be available on Facebook at @KreutzCreekLibrary and @YorkCountyLibraries. Digital Babies and Toddlers Story Times, for children birth to 3 years, will be offered on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. Digital Preschool Story Times, for children ages 3 to 5, will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays.

Tween programs will be offered to youths ages 9 to 12 on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. Reservations are required. Programs for January are The Danger Club on Jan. 12 at 6:30 p.m. and Library Squad on Jan. 26 at 6:30 p.m.

As part of the Murder at the Library Virtual Book Club, participants will read "The Arctic Fury" by Greer Macallister, and they may visit with the author online on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. For more details, readers may visit the library's Facebook page.

Since the Cookbook Discussion Group cannot gather at the library right now, it has transformed its program into COVID Cookbook Discussion Emails with a different theme each month. January's theme is "Tomatoes." Readers may learn more by emailing Susan Nenstiel at KreutzCreekLibrary@yorklibraries.org.

Students from across York and Adams counties may submit poems for the annual Celebration of Poetry. Submissions will be judged in several age brackets. Final submissions are due Friday, Jan. 29. For more information, readers may visit http://www.yorklibraries.org/library-services-programs/poetry/.

The 2021 regional One Book, One Community selection is "The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper" by Phaedra Clark. Library members may read the book during January in preparation for free programs and discussions that will be held through public libraries beginning in February. More information is available at http://www.oboc.org.