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)
“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)
“Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)