Free for All: The Public Library

  “My recommendation is that you really should … check it out!”

- David Bianculli, TV Critic for NPRs Fresh Air! 

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Archival: Librarian at desk of county book truck, ca. 1930.
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Dr. Carla Hayden-interview

Dawn Lodgson interviews Dr. Carla Hayden, former Librarian of Congress. Recently, Dr. Hayden’s ten year position was unceremonious terminated (via email), by the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office.

Photo by Louis Hine courtesy of the NYPL The New York Public Library

From award-winning filmmakers comes the story of how a simple idea shaped a nation, and the quiet revolutionaries who made it happen.

 

Cast-iron book alcoves of the now demolished, former Cincinnati Main Public Library

 
 
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The Filmmakers

 

Dawn Logsdon

Director, Producer, Narrator

Lucie Faulknor

Co-Director, Producer

 

Photo: Robert Dawson

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  “The America I love still exists
at the front desks of our public libraries.”

― Kurt Vonnegut