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Free Library Fun at the Festival!
Library Clubhouse, Booth # 50 (see the Site Map)
The Library Clubhouse is your source for Festival information! Find out where the Double Daring Book for Girls authors are reading, where to buy Flat Belly Diet!, or where to hear poet Kevin Young. Purchase limited edition Festival t-shirts and totes, have your face painted, and enter to win exciting raffle prizes from Target, Stephen Starr Events, Chaddsford Winery, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, and Cashman & Associates. Also, learn about the programs and services the Free Library offers for free everyday, including Career Services: Workplace Wednesdays, Homework Help Online, and the LEAP After School Program.
Don't miss these special Library tours:
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Parkway Central Tours (Saturday & Sunday)
Come tour the many treasures of the Parkway Central Library! The main lobby of the Beaux-Arts building, which opened its doors in 1927, currently features banners designed by area artist Alexander Calder. The tour includes a visit to the Children's Room to see beautiful paintings by local artist N.C. Wyeth, a behind-the-scenes peek at our closed book stacks, and a visit to our green roof project. Meet at the Info Desk, Main Lobby.
Horseless Carriages & Hidden Treasures (Saturday only)
The Free Library's Automobile Reference Collection rivals the National Automotive History Collection at the Detroit Public Library in both size and scope and receives thousands of research inquiries a year from all over the world. For serious motor enthusiasts, or for the simply motor-curious, this tour through the normally closed collection is a trip off-the-blueprints through gear head heaven!
Tour groups will meet at the Reference Desk in the Business, Science, and Industry Department on the 2nd floor of the Central Library. (30 minutes)
Cantate Domino: Medieval Music Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, 900-1500 (Saturday only)
The Rare Book Department maintains collections of rare and valuable prints, books, manuscripts, and works on paper and vellum from the ancient world through the 20th century. Take a guided tour through the current exhibition of medieval music manuscripts, and be sure to visit the Elkins Room, the 62-foot long paneled room bequeathed en entire to the Library by William McIntire Elkins. Take the main elevators to the Rare Book Department on the 3rd floor, and ring the buzzer at the door for entry.
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On Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19, 2009, the Free Library hosted its third annual Free Library Festival. Drawing our largest crowd to date--estimated at 35,000!--the Festival presented more than 50 authors, performers, and programs, and 80 exhibitors at the Street Fair and Literary Marketplace. Thanks to our Festival Sponsors, the City of Philadelphia, and the Fairmount Park Commission, to the Free Library staff, and to our more than 200 dedicated Festival Volunteers for another fantastic fest! );)
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