A Girl Turns 150, and Fans Take Note
New York Times
Fraktur shows will open in February and March at Winterthur, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Free Library of Philadelphia. Ms. Minardi’s catalog for the Philadelphia Museum show, “Drawn With Spirit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection” (Yale University Press), points out recurring motifs from practitioners who did not sign works and have not yet been identified.

Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Year in Review (featuring Framing Fraktur)
Pcah.us
Framing Fraktur explores the relationship between traditional fraktur and the work of seven contemporary artists presented through the two simultaneous exhibitions this spring. Supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Framing Fraktur will be mounted at the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Parkway Central Library, and is free and open to the public.

Paintings done in cells instead of studios come to the Free Library
Broad Street Review
An exhibit aims to make you think at the Free Library of Philadelphia. “Prisoner Art for Social Justice” features 28 paintings by eight artists from Graterford and Greene State correctional institutions.

National award for head of the Free Library
Philly.com
Reardon, 58, is the first woman to head the institution, whose male-dominated past is evident in the executive bathroom attached to her office. "I have my very own urinal from 1927," Reardon said during an interview in her office Thursday.

Here’s how 7 Philly city departments are advancing civic tech in 2015
Technical.ly Philly
Of all the resources provided by the Free Library, which are library-goers most fond of — you know, besides using the computers to check email and social networks? According to data presented by FLP’s Digital Literary Innovation Specialists Scott Pinkelman and Harry Fishburn, the library’s career services component is seeing the most use. Pinkelman and Fishburn say 2015 will see FLP focusing on improving its existing resources and making more available online.

History of Tacony Library: Photographs
Historical Tacony Revitalization Project
We’re very excited for the upcoming renovation of the Tacony Library and it’s no secret that the Tacony Community Development Corporation views preserving our community’s history as a key to ensuring a bright future. We recently came across some outstanding historical photographs of the Tacony Library that give a sense of what it was like to first walk through those doors on opening day, November 27th, 1906.

#PhillyFive Things to Do: Jan. 13, 2015
Philly.com
Remember that movie Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter? Well it’s screenwriter and author of the book it’s based off of, Seth Grahame-Smith is speaking at the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Central Library (1901 Vine St.) at 7:30 p.m. tonight.

Is Philly the Greenest City in America?
NBC Philadelphia
During his 2008 inaugural address, Mayor Michael Nutter set a lofty goal: make Philadelphia the greenest city in America. The next year, the Office of Sustainability he created published a plan, "Greenworks Philadelphia," setting 14 energy and environmental targets in an effort to meet that goal by 2015. (Features photo of Nutter on the green roof of the Central Parkway Library)

#PhillyFive Things to Do: Jan. 14, 2015
Philly.com
For a diet-changer: Learn vegetarian dish recipes and the health benefits of going veg with local Veterans at the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Central Branch (1901 Vine St.). Open to veterans and general public alike, the class takes place at 11 a.m.

Phila. Free Library Holds Healthy Cooking Classes with Focus on Military Vets
CBS Philly
This morning the Free Library of Philadelphia, on Logan Circle, hosted its second monthly session of “Chow Down with Veterans” in its fourth-floor culinary literacy center kitchen. “This program focuses on eating a plant-based diet, and so what we are trying to teach them is how to cook delicious, nutritious, easy meals,” says culinary literacy specialist Liz Fitzgerald.

One Book, One Philadelphia 2015 kicks off
Phillyvoice.com
At the start of each year, the Free Library of Philadelphia, in partnership with the mayor’s office, begins a literacy program called One Book, One Philadelphia. Since 2003, One Book, One Philadelphia (OBOP) has united the city into one giant book club for a few months, using a single book as the foundation for a litany of events and programs.

10 bookish events for Philadelphia’s literati
Phillyvoice.com
Event listing featuring the Eric Foner author event (January 20), One Book kickoff (January 22), and the Rosenbach’s Shaping Shakespeare rare book tour.

Librarian of the Year
Learning to See: Jon Roemer’s blog
This is the blog of the photographer who shot Siobhan’s cover photo in the Library Journal. Here he posts the photos he took, plus an alternative that didn’t make it into the magazine.

One Book, One Philadelphia shout-out
WHYY
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Art for Justice Opening Reception
WPVI-PHL (ABC)
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Veteran Cooking Class at Culinary Literacy Center
KYW-AM
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Chang-rae Lee’s “On Such a Full Sea”
WHYY’s Radiotimes
Audio-- CHANG-RAE LEE’s new novel, On Such a Full Sea, paints a chilling picture of a future America. (appeared 3/13/14)

F Scott Fitzgerald’s turbulent decline well-portrayed
Philly.com
In a departure from his 14 previous novels, Stewart O'Nan has chosen F. Scott Fitzgerald as the protagonist of his current work, West of Sunset. (appeared 1/15)

Calendar: January 14-21
Philadelphia Weekly
Join authors Stewart O’Nan and Peter Carey as they give exclusive insight into their new novels. O’Nan’s West of Sunset draws upon F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood, in financial ruin and struggling to make a new beginning as a screenwriter in the 1930s. Two-time Booker Prize winner Carey writes about hacking, slander and international secrets in his new book, Amnesia. (appeared 1/15)

Steward O’Nan on “West of Sunset”
WHYY’s Radiotimes
Audio--In his new novel, West of Sunset, STEWART O’NAN looks at the last three years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life. Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood in 1937 to write for the movie studios.

Novelist Salman Rushdie, Memoirist Alexandra Fuller, Remembering Jim Croce
WHYY’s Radiotimes
Audio--irst up, we listen to Marty’s conversation with writer SALMAN RUSHDIE, who joined Marty in 2013 to discuss Joseph Anton: A Memoir. The book recounts his nine years in hiding after then-Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, has issued a fatwa against the acclaimed novelist. (appeared 10/1/13)