Photo by Joel Perlish

Thank you for joining us on this journey, together!

Dear Community Member:

Thank you for supporting the Haverford Township Free Library.

Over the last year, your incredible generosity has let us focus on programs like our parenting panels or one of our fun drum circles. It has also allowed us to provide you with anytime access to what you might have missed through videos posted online. Community support also made it possible for us to host programs indoors again. We have in-person programs for all age groups, so bring your family and see what your financial contributions can let us do for you.

To the right are just a few examples of what your contribution can accomplish. Help us to make 2023 even better! Any donation that you make will let us continue to provide you and your family with even more amazing opportunities for life-long learning, creativity, and culture now and into the future. Will you contribute $25, $50, $100, $500, or whatever you can, to help us do more for you?

On another note, we here at the Library also want to thank you for your ongoing support of us during our renovation and expansion journey. It has taken some time, but we are thrilled to let you know that it’s actually beginning in 2023!

Guarantee that the Library is a better space for you and your family tomorrow, by making a financial donation today. We have so many plans to create a more effective Library for our community:

• Adding 5,000 more square feet
• Additional parking
• Providing better meeting spaces
• The power to plug in more than one device at a time
• A modern elevator that is more accessible, and more comfortable for parents with strollers
• A better place for teens and tweens to hang out, and an innovation station to give them something to do while they gather

Now, as we create these great new spaces, the Library building does have to close sometime in 2023. But don’t worry, we here at Haverford Township Free Library are committed to giving you plenty of notice and a detailed plan for continuing to serve you during this time. A gift of $25, $50, $100, $500, or whatever you can manage, will not only help to build a better library for our community’s future needs, but provide amazing services and programs for you and your family not only while the doors are closed, but long after they reopen.

Show your support today, and ensure that the Haverford Township Free Library continues to be a strong, vibrant part of our community for years to come.

Sincerely,

Sukrit Goswami

Library Director

Phil Goldsmith

President, Library Board of Trustees

Programs

• You gave 300 people an amazing live musical experience. Our Sounds of Summer Concert Series brought people together to dance with us even through the rain, and to revel in the music and the glowing lights of the stage.
• More in-person storytimes! During the 27 in-person storytime programs in 2022, 566 adults and children were entertained with toys, songs, activities, and stories.
• You made the Student Filmmaker Showcase: Cinema in the Park possible, recognizing Haverford High School students and treating the community to a series of student-made shorts.
• Your contributions encouraged tweens to read with a book group, and supported creativity in the community with a new HTFL Writers Group.



Services

• Your support purchased technology that we can use to educate others, to make them feel less overwhelmed when they have to use it themselves.
• We could bring you our book review podcast: All by Our Shelves where Reference Librarians share what they have been reading.

Collections

• Your support has allowed over 88,000 of our neighbors to take home over 260,000 books, movies, and albums to enjoy so far in 2022. Not just that, but you helped your fellow community members enjoy hours of streaming entertainment when they took home our Rokus.
• Provide families with unforgettable experiences, with our Museum Passes, like an outing to the Elmwood Zoo, or a visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts.

Holiday Book Bundles

A Special Treat For Book Lovers On Your List!

Each Book Bundle from the Friends of the Haverford Township Library is a carefully curated collection of books sure to give your favorite bookworms hours of reading pleasure, paired with a small gift, and all wrapped up in a bow, ready to give!

And when you give Book Bundles, you're also helping the Friends of HTFL raise funds to support and enhance library programming and facilities!

Book Bundles are available in the Library lobby for $8.00 each. 

Book Bites Luncheon

Thursday, December 8

12:00 - 2:00 pm

Community Room

Our Book Bites Luncheon is back! After two years, we are pleased to bring this fan favorite back into the building!

Join us for this catered lunch where you will find out what our staff have been reading this year. Get their recommendations for books published this year, and books on their "to be read" list for 2023!

Tickets go on sale Monday, November 21 at the Circulation Desk.

Tickets are $10 per person.

Friday Movie Matinee - Where the Crawdads Sing

Friday, December 9 - 1:00 pm

Community Room

Join us for this movie screening in our building! For November, we will be showing Where the Crawdads Sing.

About Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) PG-13 2h 5m:

Abandoned as a girl, Kya raised herself in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the marsh girl haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, she opens herself to a new and startling world. However, when one of them is found dead, Kya immediately becomes the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal many secrets.

No Registration Necessary.

Library Community Sing - Holiday Songs!

Tuesday, December 13 - 7:00 pm

Community Room

Get in the holiday spirit at HTFL with a Community Sing! We will sing together holiday songs including new and traditional melodies. This NEW monthly program is for anyone over the age of 14 who likes to sing, no experience necessary. Each month, a new genre will be explored and sung. Lyrics sheets will be available and you do not need to read music to participate. This month, come sing holiday songs with us!

No regisrtation required.

Adult Calendar

Wednesday, November 30

2:00 pm - Great Courses - 1066: The Year that Changed Everything (Zoom)*

Friday, December 2

10:00 am - Tea and Stich (Community Room)

Monday, December 5

7:00 pm - Hooked on History (Zoom)*

Wednesday, December 7

2:00 pm - Great Courses - 1066: The Year that Changed Everything (Zoom)*

Thursday, December 8

12:00 pm - Book Bites Luncheon (Community Room)*

11:00 am - Cookies & Mystery (The Hub)

Friday, December 9

10:00 am - Tea and Stitch (Community Room)

1:00 pm - Friday Movie Matinee - Where the Crawdads Sing (Community Room)

Monday, December 12

6:30 pm - Cookbook Club (Community Room)*

Tuesday, December 13

7:00 pm - Library Community Sing - Holiday Songs! (Community Room)

Wednesday, December 14

2:00 pm - Great Courses - 1066: The Year that Changed Everything (Zoom)*

Thursday, December 15

11:00 am - Cookies and Mystery (Board Room)

Friday, December 16

10:00 am - Tea and Stitch (Community Room)

*Registration Required

Youth Services Department Highlights

NEW! - Preschool Storytime Craft

Wednesdays, December 14 & 21 - 4:15 pm

The Hub

Join us for a delightful time of stories and a related craft. Meets Wednesdays at 4:15 pm in the Hub.

For ages 3-5 with a caregiver. Registration required. Limited to 12 families. Click here to register.

Storytimes at HTFL!

Circle Time Storytime

Mondays & Thursdays, November 14 - December 22

10:30 am

The Hub

Join us for a delightful time of books and songs! This in-person storytime will be held in the Library’s Hub for children ages 0 to 5 years old.

Babies and Books

Tuesdays, November 15 - December 20

10:30 am

The Hub

This storytime includes books, songs, rhymes and movement games with your infant or toddler! Babies and Books is tailored to children under the age of 18 months.

Toddler Storytime

Fridays, November 11 - December 23

10:30 am

The Hub

Toddlers will hear stories, sing songs, and play movement games while enhancing their early-literacy skills in a fun, warm environment! Toddler Storytime is tailored to children 18 months to under 3 years.

Registration is required for all storytimes. To register, click on the name of the storytime above. Each registration is for 1 family.

Children's Calendar

Thursday, December 1

10:30 am - Circle Time Storytime (The HUB)*

Friday, December 2

10:30 am - Toddler Storytime (The HUB)*

Monday, December 5

10:30 am - Circle Time Storytime (The Hub)*

Tuesday, December 6

10:30 am - Babies and Books Storytime (The Hub)*

Thursday, December 8

10:30am Circle Time Storytime (The Hub)*

Friday, December 9

10:30 am - Toddler Storytime (The Hub)*

Monday, December 12

10:30 am - Circle Time Storytime (The Hub)*

Tuesday, December 13

10:30 am - Babies and Books Storytime (The Hub)*

Wednesday, December 14

4:15 pm - Preschool Storytime Craft - NEW! (The HUB)*

Thursday, December 15

10:30 am - Circle Time Storytime (The HUB)*

Friday, December 16

10:30 am - Toddler Storytime (The HUB)*

*Registration Required

Havertown Holiday Festival

Discover Haverford

Saturday, December 10 - 11:00am - 9:00pm

Brookline Boulevard

The Havertown Holiday Festival will be a family- friendly event focused on Christmas, Hanukkah, and Winter Fun! 

We will have costumed characters, live holiday music, story time and crafts for kids, food trucks and vendors, beer & hot adult beverages, a holiday marketplace, an ice sculpture demonstration, a tree lighting and a menorah.