Free for All: The Public Library

You asked, we listened, and now FREE FOR ALL will be available FOR FREE to 1000 qualifying small and rural public libraries! Thanks to the Carnegie Corporation of NY!

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The program launched at the Association of Small & Rural Libraries (ARSL) Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM. Use this film to inform, engage, and motivate your community to keep public libraries free for all.

“Personal, passionate & ultimately very persuasive…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.

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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

Meet the Rest of our Team

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

― Kurt Vonnegut

Photo: Robert Dawson