Free for All: The Public Library
2025 · 1h 23m · N/A
Documentary
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Dawn Logsdon
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Free for All: The Public Library
Overview
The story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea of a public library happen. From the pioneering women behind the "Free Library Movement" to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.
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