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  Free Library of Philadelphia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the suggestion of Dr. Pepper, he had earmarked $225,000 of his estate to go towards the foundation of the Free Library of Philadelphia, which was established on February 18, 1891.
Lawsuits from private libraries held up the disbursement of the funds until 1894; meanwhile, the city of Philadelphia opened six branches of a separate institution, the Philadelphia Public Library, beginning in 1892.
In 1906, it was decided that the Library's permanent headquarters should be along the proposed Benjamin Franklin Parkway (then known as the Fairmount Parkway), and Logan Square was chosen as the site in 1910, the same year the Library moved to 13th and Locust Streets.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free_Library_of_Philadelphia   (283 words)

  
 Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The design of the medieval library arose very directly from the fact that these books were manuscripts created via the labor-intensive process of hand copying, and were valuable possessions, were therefore likely to be stolen, and were far too expensive for most people to own.
Libraries have materials arranged in a specified order according to a library classification system, so that items may be located quickly and collections may be browsed efficiently.
Basic tasks in library management include the planning of acquisitions (which materials the library should acquire, by purchase or otherwise), library classification of acquired materials, preservation of materials (especially rare and fragile archival materials such as manuscripts), patron borrowing of materials, and developing and administering library computer systems.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Library   (2341 words)

  
 Free Library of Philadelphia - Centennial Bibliography
Empire of Brazil at the universal exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia.
Centennial historical discourses delivered in the city of Philadelphia, June, 1876, by appointment of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
The International Conference on Education held at Philadelphia, July 17 and 18, in connection with the International Exhibition of 1876, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education, 1877.
www.history.villanova.edu /centennial/flpbib.htm   (1658 words)

  
 AIArchitect, January 19, 2004 - Free Library of Philadelphia Selects Safdie for Renovation, Expansion of Central Library
The Free Library of Philadelphia has selected Moshe Safdie and Associates Inc. to design the renovation and expansion of the city’s Central Library on Logan Square.
In summary, the architects hope to provide Philadelphia with “a major new landmark reflecting its illustrious past and optimism for its future.” Upon his selection for the project, Safdie said, “I couldn’t be more pleased and honored to be selected for this magnificent project.
The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Web site will carry updates on the project throughout the design and construction process.
www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek04/tw0116/0116_freelibraryphili.htm   (373 words)

  
 Free Library of Philadelphia, Board of Trustees of the   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The mission of the Free Library is to provide to all segments of the City's population a comprehensive collection of recorded knowledge, ideas, artistic expression and information; assure ease of access to these materials; and offer programs that stimulate the awareness and use of these resources.
The Free Library of Philadelphia, initially established through private donations, was incorporated and granted a charter in 1891.
The Board of Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia was established in 1894 to enable the Library to receive appropriations from the City.
www.phila.gov /phils/Docs/Inventor/Graphics/agencies/A154.htm   (248 words)

  
 LISNews.org | At Free Library of Philadelphia, 20 Branches to Operate Without Librarians
LJ reports that 17 staffers were laid off at the Philadelphia Free Library and that 20 branches will be run without librarians on staff.
The Free Library is currently involved in rennovating and expanding the main library downtown.
If they cared about libraries, and if they cared about the profession they would have spearheaded the effort to adequately staff the Philadelphia libraries and opposed spending funds on capital improvements that cannot be justified in these times of budgetary dietetics.
www.lisnews.com /articles/05/01/25/1042203.shtml?tid=1&tid=25&tid=35   (552 words)

  
 Wilmington Free Library
The Delaware Area Continentals Inc. and their Continental Guys would like to see the main library of Wilmington, the oldest and largest public library in Delaware become the information processing center at the turn of the century for the low income neighborhood it serves, the entire city, county, and state.
We were told that the reason why the main library of Wilmington did not have a book fair for the children was because the staff believed that the children they served could not afford to buy books.
The Wilmington Institute Free Library Information Processing Learning Center could be a model project for the National Continental Organization of 700 African American women in cities with main libraries most of which are located in low-income neighborhoods throughout America.
www.ipa.udel.edu /it/technology-access/grants/faulcon.html   (1487 words)

  
 Philadelphia Travel Guide | Fodor's Online
Philadelphia is a place of contrasts: Grace Kelly and Rocky Balboa; Le Bec-Fin -- one of the nation's finest French haute cuisine restaurants -- and the fast-food heaven of Jim's Steaks; 18th-century national icons standing next to 21st-century skyscrapers.
Historically speaking, Philadelphia is a city of superlatives: the world's largest municipal park; the best collection of public art in the United States; the widest variety of urban architecture in America; and according to some experts, the greatest concentration of institutions of higher learning in the country.
In addition, Philadelphia is known as a city of neighborhoods (109 by one count).
fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=philadelphia@119&...   (468 words)

  
 Current Information about Philadelphia
Philadelphia FIGHT (FIGHT) is a comprehensive AIDS service organization providing primary care, consumer education, advocacy and research on potential treatments and vaccines.
Philadelphia resident birth, death, disease and population data by health district, by neighborhood, and by census tract.
Extracted from Philadelphia resident birth, death, disease and population data by health district, by neighborhood, and by census tract (supra), and arranged as time-series data.
gethelp.library.upenn.edu /guides/philadelphia/philainfo.html   (3822 words)

  
 The David Library of the American Revolution
The David Library of the American Revolution is a privately endowed, nonprofit foundation devoted to the study of American history circa 1750 to 1800.
The library's mission is the collection and dissemination of information on the period and the support of related programs.
The David Library of the American Revolution is offering a number of one and two month residential fellowships (housing provided) to support research in its collections, at a stipend of $1600 per month.
www.dlar.org   (2024 words)

  
 Elliptic Blog: Free Library of Philadelphia: Renovation and Expansion
As some of you know, the Free Library of Philadelphia recently selected Moshe Safdie and Associates Inc. to undertake an expansion of its Central Branch at Logan Circle.
The Free Library is one of two buildings in Logan Circle that are replicas of those in the Place de la Concorde in Paris (the other being the Family Court building).
The current building was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by architects Horace Trumbauer and Julian Abele and it opened in June 1927.
elliptic.typepad.com /elliptic_blog/2003/12/free_library_of.html   (265 words)

  
 PACSCL: Wagner Free Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Institute's Library provides reference services to students and scientists, as well as scholars of science and technology, intellectual and social history, and the history of science in America.
In March 1999, the Library and the Children's Education Department of the Institute kicks-off a new circulating collection of science and other resource material for elementary school teachers at two neighborhood schools, the General George G.
The Library of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, a member of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), has a growing on-line catalog which may be searched on-site.
www.pacscl.org /wagner   (450 words)

  
 GoCityKids | The Free Library of Philadelphia
The Free Library of Philadelphia's Central Library is a world class research facility, open to the general public and available to all.
It networks 55 regional branch libraries throughout the Philadephia area and hosts a number of community outreach services and programs.
As one might guess, the Library is a source of information and inspiration, particularly for children.
www.gocitykids.com /browse/attraction.jsp?id=15419   (196 words)

  
 Philadelphia - Fire Insurance Atlases
Free Library of Philadelphia, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1895-1920
Free Library of Philadelphia, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1894-1920
Free Library of Philadelphia, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1895
www.brynmawr.edu /iconog/atlaslist/ins1.html   (145 words)

  
 Lincoln Financial Group Foundation Contributes $486,825 to 20 Nonprofit Organizations to Address Education Needs
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Recognizing that education has the power to transform lives, strengthen communities, fuel the economy, and deepen our understanding of each other and our world, the Lincoln Financial Group Foundation awarded 20 third quarter grants, totaling $486,825, to organizations in support of education programs in the Greater Philadelphia region.
Philadelphia Futures for Youth The Lincoln Foundation awarded a $60,000 grant to Philadelphia Futures for continued support of the Sponsor-A-Scholar program, an initiative that provides support to students attending public high schools to successfully complete high school, and to prepare for college and beyond.
With headquarters in Philadelphia, Lincoln Financial Group has consolidated assets of $119 billion as of June 30, 2005, and had annual consolidated revenues of $5.4 billion in 2004.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-26-2005/0004195490&EDATE=   (1021 words)

  
 American Philosophical Society Library
The Library is comprised of three departments: Printed Materials (housing books, periodicals, broadsides, and other printed works), Manuscripts (housing manuscript materials, photographs, and many works of art on paper), and Conservation (responsible for the physical preservation and conservation of all library materials).
Mounted in the entrance hall to the Library, exhibits are open to the public free of charge during regular operating hours.
The Library is among the premier institutions in the nation for documenting the history of genetics and eugenics, the study of natural history in the 18th and 19th centuries, quantum mechanics, and the development of cultural anthropology in America.
www.amphilsoc.org /library   (577 words)

  
 Philadelphia History - Research Guide
Van Pelt Library, the largest Penn Library, collects social sciences and humanities publications, as well as general publications, important city governmental publications, and population and social statistics publications.
The staff of the Free Library made cards only for subjects which library users inquired about frequently; thus, the coverage of the index is extremely limited.
The Free Library of Philadelphia's Map Collection, located in the Social Science and History Department at the Central Branch, Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street, is probably the best map collection in the Delaware Valley, at least for Philadelphiana.
gethelp.library.upenn.edu /guides/philadelphia/philahist.html   (4018 words)

  
 Sirsi Corporation - News - Sirsi Top Choice for Free Library of Philadelphia
The Free Library's suite of Sirsi products and services include the Unicorn® Library Management System, WorkFlows® staff interface, iBistro e-Library, Sirsi SVA telephone notification system, SmartPort cataloging client, EDI (electronic data interchange), and 9XX Order Interface for Acquisitions.
"We are honored to count the Free Library of Philadelphia - one of the leading urban libraries in the U.S.* - among the family of clients using Sirsi solutions," said Patrick Sommers, Sirsi's chief executive officer.
The Free Library will create a welcoming and inspiring environment for learning and will promote individual enlightenment, community enrichment, and economic vitality throughout the region.
www.sirsi.com /Sirsinews/20040628freepubliclibrary.html   (324 words)

  
 Free Library of Philadelphia
The Free Library of Philadelphia, to the right of the Shakespeare monument (its balancing building is the County Court Building behind the Pennypacker monument), is one of the great libraries of the country.
The main library of the Philadelphia system, anyone may use its resources on the spot.
One of the riches of the Free Library is the Rare Book Department, which has holdings spanning 5000 years, from cuneiform tablets, European manuscripts dating from the 9th through the 18th century, examples of calligraphy, Oriental manuscripts and miniatures, incunabula, Pennsylvania German frakturs and the William McIntire Elkins library.
www.ushistory.org /districts/parkway/freel.htm   (270 words)

  
 Department of Library Science
The Department of Library Science continues its efforts to address the growing shortage of librarians throughout the commonwealth and the nation by offering its accredited Master of Science in Library Science (M.S.L.S.) program in the Philadelphia area.
The Free Library is a world-class research facility and is open to the public free of charge.
Enrollment in the department's graduate library science courses is restricted to individuals who have been admitted to graduate studies at Clarion University and who are in good academic standing.
www.clarion.edu /libsci/philadelphia.htm   (1489 words)

  
 Charity Navigator Rating - The Free Library of Philadelphia
The Free Library of Philadelphia works to provide, to all segments of Philadelphia's diverse population, a comprehensive collection of recorded knowledge, ideas, artistic expression and information in a variety of media, including current technology; to assure ease of access to these materials; and to provide programs to stimulate the awareness and use of these resources.
The Free Library creates a welcoming and inspiring environment for learning and promotes individual enlightenment, community enrichment and economic vitality throughout the region.
The Free Library supports the educational goals of Philadelphians by providing materials and programs for children, as well as for their parents and caregivers.
www.charitynavigator.org /index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/3727.htm   (210 words)

  
 Philly SOS- Browse by Agency Name
Free Library of Philadelphia @ Blanche A. Nixon-Cobbs Creek Branch
Free Library of Philadelphia @ Charles Durham (Mantua) Branch
Free Library of Philadelphia @ Katherine Drexel Branch
famcent.phila.gov /sos/brsagency.asp?firstchar=F   (343 words)

  
 Free Library of Philadelphia | Museum/Attraction Review | Philadelphia | Frommers.com
Splendidly situated on the north side of Logan Circle, the Free Library of Philadelphia rivals the public libraries of Boston and New York for magnificence and diversity.
The library and its twin, the Municipal Court, are copies of buildings in the Place de la Concorde in Paris (the library's on the left).
The main lobby and the gallery always have some of the institution's riches on display, from medieval manuscripts to exhibits of modern bookbinding.
www.frommers.com /destinations/philadelphia/A22652.html   (305 words)

  
 Free Library of Philadelphia
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 Closings ... 20050203 - Friends Of The Free Library Of Philadelphia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The arts and culture component of Neighborhood Friends for Better Libraries is comprosed of a Menu of arts and cultural programs available to Friends Groups to host at their branch libraries.
20050203:  Contains a report from the Roxborough library on the 2005 library closings and a report on the Lawncrest Excutive Committee meeting with Elliot Shilkrot on the same subject.
20050302:  The Executive Director of Friends of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Amy Dougherty, reports on a successful rally at the Wyoming Branch on March 2nd, 2005.
libraryfriends.info /cgi-bin/index.pl?item=closings/.../20050203   (1728 words)

  
 Hist Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Historical Library is open to the public free of charge, Tuesday through Friday, from 10am to 4pm.
The De Benneville manuscript is owned by the College Library; the Wagner has been made available by the Schwenkfelder Library of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania.
This project was made possible by a grant from the National Library of Medicine to Prof.
www.collphyphil.org /histpg1.shtml   (160 words)

  
 Register
For a Germantown Branch of the Free Library to be erected across form Vernon in Vernon Park, Frank Miles Day and Brother designed a low, long Georgian building that graciously deferred to the Federal style mansion.
The Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad Company built a line from Philadelphia to Germantown which ran through the east side of the community to a terminus at Germantown Avenue and Price Street and opened in 1832.
Residents from all over Philadelphia's northwest section were funneled into the heart of Germantown's commercial district by the confluence of trolley lines at Germantown and Chelten.
www.brynmawr.edu /iconog/gtn/regstr.htm   (3031 words)

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