Free Library of Philadelphia

位于罗斯福大道入口旁的图书馆，也可以趁着走路一起打卡，图书馆免费开放给公众，不需要预约。图书馆的建筑很有特色，不过内部的装饰没有波士顿和纽约的图书馆那么壮观

1876年，美国建国100周年时，美国图书馆协会在费城召开了一场重要会议。参与者是大约100位图书馆管理者，其中还有13位女性。最年轻的参会者是年仅25岁的麦尔威·杜威——目前图书馆使用的杜威分类法就是他发明的。他的主张是“以最低成本让最多的人得到最好的阅读”。1890年，他被选举为全美图书馆协会主席，并开始对图书馆进行标准化设置，这就是现代图书馆的开端。今天图书馆的几乎每一个方面——从如何对图书进行分类到图书卡的大小和边缘长短——都反应了杜威对“标准化”和“高效率”的严格要求。正是多亏了他，在没有计算机强大搜索功能的早年，读者也可以在图书馆数以万计的馆藏中迅速找到自己想要的图书。

Beautiful place and nice people inside,there were lots of different types of books to read and enjoy.we highly recommend here

The city view of Philadelphia is relatively shabby, but all public facilities are well maintained. So passing by this public library was attracted at once. It was very quiet inside, and there were really many people coming to read, many of them were black. In addition to the public reading area, I also saw the free Internet area. Free wifi is also available in the library.

The free library area in Philadelphia is also quite atmospheric. The whole library can see a lot of facilities, a lot of things, the age of the library is quite big, and there are many types of books.