Pupils pedal the Yorkshire Tour baton around the city

In the tyre tracks of this year’s Tour de Yorkshire, York school children will be pedalling a relay race as part of the Schools Yorkshire Tour.

A baton is cycled from school to school and between the region’s local authorities by pupils.

This year, Dunnington primary school pupils together with The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of York have the honour of taking the baton for York from East Riding at the border on Stamford Bridge viaduct on Friday 8 June at 2:15pm.

On Monday 11 June, York pupils will cycle the baton around the city. Dunnington Primary school children will start the relay by pedalling the baton over to Badger Hill Primary School. Badger Hill pupils will ride it on to Lord Deramore’s for a handover and so on. The baton will then go to St Lawrence’s, St George’s RC, Knavesmire, Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Carr Junior School and then St Barnabas primary schools.

The following day, Tuesday 12 June, St Barnabas’ primary school pupils will cycle the baton to nearby York railway station and, with Cllr Keith Myers, pass it on to school representatives from Doncaster on the 10am train, who will carry the relay on to South Yorkshire. (more…)

Print from your own devices – new service at Acomb Explore Library

UntitledExplore libraries have updated their printing services to include printing from any device.  Thanks to these new kiosks, anybody can now print documents at the libraries without logging onto the library computers or even being a library member.   Residents and visitors alike can simply email their print jobs to the library printer from their mobile phones, laptops, or their home PC.  So if you’re on your way to a gig and forgotten to print your ticket, it’s no problem, just email the tickets to the library printer, and receive a unique job reference back to collect your print.

The new kiosks have been installed at Acomb, Clifton, Tang Hall and York Explore libraries, with the support of United Carlton and City of York Council IT.  Helen Whitehead, E-Services Librarian says “For a while now, customers have been asking for wi-fi printing, and we’ve found it tricky to find a secure but affordable way to achieve it.  We’re so pleased we’ve found this solution, which doesn’t just offer secure wifi printing, but also printing from home, and easy photocopying and scanning too.”

While libraries have offered printing from public computers for many years, this new technology brings the service right up to date with customers able to collect prints privately and efficiently themselves, without staff handling their sensitive documents, and the prints are higher quality too.

Explore York Libraries & Archives is a not-for-profit organisation with charitable status, and make a small charge for printing and photocopying.  Full details of prices, and a full description of the encryption methodology used are on the library website www.exploreyork.org.uk

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For more information about this service please contact:

Helen Whitehead, E Services Librarian

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