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Join the Library’s First Teen Esports Tournament!

The Free Library is excited to announce our first-ever FLoP (Free Library of Philadelphia) Bowl , a free esports tournament for teens aged 12–18 hosted at ten local library branches throughout the city, created in partnership with…

Oddities and Wonders: A Selection of Unusual Artifacts for TTRPG Players

The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Special Collections is excited to present a free catalog of items that can be used to supplement Dungeons and Dragon s and other tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)! Each in-game item was…

Rolling for Identity: The Intersection of TTRPGs and LGBTQ+ Communities

What do the TTRPG (tabletop role-playing game) community and the LGBTQ+ community have in common, besides long acronyms? It turns out, a whole lot; there is a significant overlap between the two communities! Tabletop…

Pride in Video Gayming

Queer people and video games have gone hand-in-hand since the days of Pac-Man . Who among us hasn’t made their Sims get gay married? Or dreamt about rescuing Princess Zelda from the clutches of evil? Or built the perfect…

New Achievement Unlocked: Video Game Circulation!

The Free Library is excited to announce the addition of video games to its vast catalog of borrowable materials! Why video games at the library, you ask? Well, stories aren't confined to books alone! Video games present immersive…

Dungeons & Dragons and The Free Library

In recent years, Dungeons & Dragons (or D&D ) has transformed from a nerdy niche into a pop culture staple, recognizable in popular shows like the Netflix original series Stranger Things , or the Amazon animated series Vox…

Explore Creative Careers with Field Teen Center!

Throughout the month of July, Field Teen Center recorded interviews with a voice actor, four game designers, and a comic book writer. If you’re interested in creative jobs or if you just want to learn more about how your favorite…

International Chess Day is July 20th

Chess is thriving! The New York Times recently reported that interest in chess is at a 50 year high, the highest level since the 1972 World Chess Championship between American Bobby Fischer (1943-2008) and Soviet Boris Spassky (1937 -…

Happy Inventors Day for Monopoly Lovers!

I am a Monopoly lover! This celebrated board game became popular in the 1930s after it was patented by Philadelphia inventor Charles B. Darrow , who lived on W. Hortter St. in the West Mt. Airy area of Philadelphia. Mr. Darrow was…

New Monthly Game Night Series to Take Place in Heim Center

Part of my job is to show Parkway Central Library ’s private spaces to those who are interested in renting them for events . At the end of those tours, I often take them to the Heim Center , one of the new public library spaces…

Skills Training for Community-Centered Libraries: Building Your Library Team

Our first cohort of staff members participating in the Skills for Community-Centered Libraries training recently learned about and explored team roles and dynamics. Staff reflected on their own strengths and what attributes they bring…