The Free Library is no longer requiring people to apply in person. Cards are available to all Pennsylvania residents.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - When school is over, learning shouldn't stop and the best way to learn and have fun is joining a summer reading program. Kids who don't read on vacation lose reading skills and it ...

Philadelphia relies on libraries as heating and cooling centers, but they frequently close due to heat or air conditioning issues.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Officials with the Free Library of Philadelphia say the institution has no plans to call off its popular Author Events speaker series, despite emails and social media posts ...

Starting Monday, the Free Library of Philadelphia is implementing new fall hours that will impact most branches and officials have announced a plan to bring back Saturday hours at all branches "very ...

Chef Jose Garces speaks at the Free Library of Philadelphia's Culinary Literacy Center on June 2 in Philadelphia. The newly opened a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen is an ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A poet who originally moved from Puerto Rico to Philadelphia for graduate school has been named the city’s new poet laureate. Raquel Salas Rivera was named the poet laureate for ...

PHILADELPHIA -- What's cooking at the Philadelphia public library? Plenty, now that it has a million-dollar kitchen at its main downtown branch. The library has whipped up an unusual culinary program ...

The Library Company of Philadelphia launches a monthly club to discuss civic values, based on virtues set down by its founder, Benjamin Franklin. Michael Barsanti, director of the Library Company of ...