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Widespread screening events are expanding the audience for “Free for All: The Public Library,” an Independent Lens documentary that explores the crucial role of American libraries throughout history ...

Laramie County Community College’s Ludden Library and the Laramie County Library System invite the community to attend a screening of "The Librarians," a PBS Independent Lens documentary examining ...

When New Orleans was battening down in the 1960s for the arrival of Hurricane Betsy, Dawn Logsdon’s mother was preparing by getting children’s books from the library to read by candlelight. “From that ...

The new PBS Independent Lens documentary about America's public library system arrives with a very clever, two-edged title: Free for All: The Public Library. The "Free for All" part refers, of course, ...

Wanjiru Koinange and Angela Wachuka – set out in 2017 to do something both ordinary and radical: rebuild neglected libraries in Nairobi.What began as a small community project quickly revealed the ...

The documentary “Free for All: The Public Library” chronicles the role libraries still play in communities in the digital age, for both informational resources and for community connection. The public ...

Countless histories can be found on library shelves, including histories of libraries themselves. Reading library history can help us not only avoid repeating history but also better understand how ...