More Updates about Falls Library
Our library continues to struggle with HVAC and plumbing issues. The official reopening date for Falls of Schuylkill Library is still October 21st.
Click here for an email update from 10/09/2025.
Click here for up-to-date information from the Free Library.
Friends of Library Fall Book Sale
Start Saving Your Books!
The Falls Library’s popular Fall Book Sale, sponsored by the Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library, is returning on October 16, 17 & 18th in the Falls Library’s meeting room. We need your books! Start bagging/boxing your hardbacks, paperbacks, CDs, DVDs, children’s books, and jigsaw puzzles (no textbooks, magazines, or audiotapes, or moldy or dusty books please) to drop off at the Falls Library.
- Please note that intake days have changed and are as follows:
- Tuesday, October 14th 11:00 am -6:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 15th, 11:00 am- 5:00 pm
PLEASE do not leave your books at the library doors or in the book drop before this time! Looking forward to your participation in this annual community event!
Catfish Chronicle – Fall issue – Click here to read it.
Fiber Arts Group – Saturday too!
Every Tuesday, 2 to 4 PM, as well as first and third Saturdays, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Main Room of Falls Library
Craving for a crafts group to meet up with? Want to connect, socially, with other creatives working on portable crafts projects? Looking to share your crafts project or project ideas with other creatives? Stop by the Library – bring a portable craft project (knitting, crocheting, hand-sewing, embroidery, jewelry, etc) that you are working on. Don’t know how, but want to learn to hand-craft from others who are passionate about their projects? Stop in and watch and learn some basics
News from the Free Library
Click here for latest issue.
Catfish Chronicle – all issues
Click here for all issues of our quarterly email newsletter.
An Invitation To Area Businesses!
Join the Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library and partner with us in support of our Falls Library, a neighborhood treasure. Click here to learn more and to join.
Join the Friends of the Falls Library!
Membership is open to all individuals and organizations interested in supporting the Friends. Click here to learn more.
Photo Galleries
Check out our Photo page – History, Special Events, and More. Click here.
Our Values
The Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library is an all-volunteer community member organization promoting the Falls of Schuylkill Library’s services and supporting the preservation of the Library, an original Andrew Carnegie funded library.
• The Friends value our library for its history, its central location, and its content which is free to everyone.
• We value the Library as a community meeting place; it is the heart of East Falls.
• We value literacy and library programs that work toward it.
• We value meeting the needs of a diverse community by encouraging and funding library programs open to anyone, whether a library card holder or not.
• We value cooperation with other East Falls organizations in supporting a vibrant community.
If you have any questions please contact us. Click Here
