The Free Library of Philadelphia is holding a series of town halls to seek public input as it develops a strategic plan to shape its future. City residents can share what the Free Library means to ...

Tariq Trotter’s 2023 memoir about growing up in Philadelphia will be the focus of the Free Library’s all-city reading program. Tariq Trotter, known as Black Thought, speaks about his book, ''The ...

Philadelphia library fans have until Friday to help Free Library of Philadelphia win a friendly competition against rival Kansas City Public Library in the Library Love Competition. While both cities ...

The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Ravens on the Rooftop returns to the Parkway Central Library on Thursday, Oct. 30, transforming the rooftop terrace into a lively Halloween celebration with sweeping ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The City of Philadelphia has unveiled an ambitious plan that brings additions to the Ben Franklin Parkway. Those plans include a new location for the African American Museum in ...

Mayor Cherelle Parker joined the Free Library of Philadelphia and Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation on Friday to announce Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter’s “Upcycled Self” as this year’s One Book, ...

Wayland Temple Baptist Church in North Philadelphia recently hosted a town hall-style meeting for area residents to express their concern over the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Cecil B. Moore branch, ...

Tara Lynne Murphy has had several roles with the Free Library of Philadelphia. Currently she’s in charge of LAMP, the Library of Accessible Media for Pennsylvanians. Readers across the state who are ...

It’s Thursday morning, and the fourth floor of Parkway Central Library is alive with bubbling jollof rice, crisping empanadas, and stir-frying japchae. Welcome to Edible Alphabet, the flagship series ...

A scene from the Germantown Community Archiving: Let’s Make Histories! kickoff event, held October 29 at the Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library (JEC), a branch of the Free Library of ...