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.

  • Black History Month

    Enjoy an exhibit of books in Friends Free Library including biographies and histories of African Americans and explore the attached links for resources from the Library of Congress, NAACP and the Poetry Foundation.

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  • Marley's Ghost

    Dickens at 200

    How many Dickens novels have you read? In the early to mid 19th century Dickens was as popular as J.K. Rowling or Stephen King is today. Many of Dickens' novels were published serially with detailed and artful illustrations as this one above for A Christmas Carol. There will be a number of exhibits and events celebrating Dickens in 2012, the 200th anniversary of his birth.

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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 »

Booklists

Browse book selections from the FFL based on Quaker Testimonies, LGBT titles, parenting issues, etc. 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