Services
In addition to its vast amount of physical and virtual resources, the Free Library of Philadelphia hosts about 25,000 programs annually, including job-search workshops, small business programming, English as a Second Language conversation groups, and computer classes. The Library hosts a renowned Author Events Series, which brings more than 100 writers to the Free Library annually; the city-wide One Book-One Philadelphia program; the Summer Reading program, which engages some 50,000 Philadelphia school children each summer; the Literacy Enrichment After-school Program (LEAP); and the Philadelphia Book Festival.
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Famous quotes containing the word services:
“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along—but men have always had the help of a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll—on women, on men, and on our children.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)