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Your library card connects you to the latest e-books, audiobooks, streaming media, news outlets, and online learning sites—for free! Virtual Programming, like online storytimes and Author Events, are also now streaming on a variety of platforms.
Browse, borrow, and enjoy titles from the The Free Library of Philadelphia digital collection.
Philadelphia, PA 19120-4439. 215-685-9158. Services and Facilities ›. Currently Closed. The Free Library of Philadelphia welcomes 6 million visitors to our 54 neighborhood libraries and the Rosenbach each year.
The Free Library has materials and services to help you as you get settled in Philadelphia.
About the Library. The mission of the Free Library of Philadelphia is to advance literacy, guide learning, and inspire curiosity. Its vision is to build an enlightened community devoted to lifelong learning.
The Free Library of Philadelphia is the public library system that serves Philadelphia. It is the 16th-largest public library system in the United States. The Free Library of Philadelphia is a non-Mayoral agency of the City of Philadelphia governed by an independent Board of Trustees as per the Charter of the City of Philadelphia.
Monday and Tuesday 10:00 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday 2:00 p.m. Please meet in the main First Floor lobby. Explore the grand Beaux-Arts building of Parkway Central Library, an important part of Philadelphia's past and present that opened in 1927 on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
