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Friends Free Library

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    Welcome to Friends Free Library, open to the entire Germantown Friends School community as a learning commons, encouraging a love of reading as well as helping students become effective researchers and sharers of information. The Library is also open to community members of neighboring Germantown. Individual local users may borrow books and access the internet. Community daycare centers bring in groups for story hours and “library time.” The Library collection consists of approximately 50,000 volumes, newspapers and magazines as well as an active collection of online research databases. Feel free to “ask a Librarian” either in person, by phone or email anytime.

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    Welcome to Friends Free Library, open to the entire Germantown Friends School community as a learning commons, encouraging a love of reading as well as helping students become effective researchers and sharers of information. The Library is also open to community members of neighboring Germantown. Individual local users may borrow books and access the internet. Community daycare centers bring in groups for story hours and “library time.” The Library collection consists of approximately 50,000 volumes, newspapers and magazines as well as an active collection of online research databases. Feel free to “ask a Librarian” either in person, by phone or email anytime.

  • library

    Welcome to Friends Free Library, open to the entire Germantown Friends School community as a learning commons, encouraging a love of reading as well as helping students become effective researchers and sharers of information. The Library is also open to community members of neighboring Germantown. Individual local users may borrow books and access the internet. Community daycare centers bring in groups for story hours and “library time.” The Library collection consists of approximately 50,000 volumes, newspapers and magazines as well as an active collection of online research databases. Feel free to “ask a Librarian” either in person, by phone or email anytime.

Program Highlights

  • eBooks at FFL

    You will find an eBook icon showing up in your searches in the FFL collection. These are largely reference and non-fiction. We are hosting eBooks from three publishers: EBSCOhost, Gale Virtual Reference (GVRL) and Oxford Univ. Press.

    To access these ebooks click on the phrase EBSCOHost or Available for Germantown Friends School (GVRL) or Connect to Resource (Oxford).

    Each will open the entry to the book and offer table of Contents, index, citation information, etc. Each title can be read by multiple users.

    Ebsco titles are the only ones available for download.

    To Download you must create and EBSCOhost login and download Adobe digital edition software. Please see Library staff for details.

Contact & Hours

Hours (School Year)
Mon-Thurs: 8:00am-4:00pm
Friday: 8:00am-3:00pm
Closed school vacations
Call for summer hours

Kackie St. Clair
Director of Library Services
 5418 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144
215-951-2355

Library Catalog

Find books, ebooks and multimedia in Friends Free Library. Go »

Online Research Databases

Find articles in journals, newspapers and encyclopedias organized by topic and A-Z listing. Go »

Noodletools

Online citation builder and notetaking software. Go »

New books and resources in the Library

Check here for the latest print, ebook and DVD additions to the collection as well as new research links and databases. Go »

Booklists

Browse book selections from our librarians on Quaker Testimonies, LGBT resources, parent resources and Lower School suggested reading lists. Go »

Lower School Program

Learn more about the library program for Lower School students, and access reading lists and other resources for lower school students and families. Go »

Suggest a Purchase

Recommend a book for purchase that is not already on our shelves. Go » 

"We're teaching our students how to navigate the vast universe of information that's open to them. They need to know how to frame precise questions, how to move beyond Google and Wikipedia, and how to evaluate and corroborate the sources they find."

Kackie St. Clair
Director of Library Services