Free For All: The Public Library
Indie Lens Pop-Up Preview Screening
Presented by Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the East Baton Rouge Parish Library
Date & Time
Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 3 p.m.
Location
The Main Library at Goodwood
7711 Goodwood Blvd
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806
Cost
Free and open to the public. Pre-registration is recommended.
Join Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the East Baton Rouge Parish Library for an Indie Lens Pop-Up screening of Free For All: The Public Library on Saturday, January 18 at 3 p.m. at The Main Library at Goodwood in Baton Rouge. This screening is an exclusive first look at the documentary ahead of its premiere on LPB in April 2025.
The event will include a showing of Free For All: The Public Library followed by a panel discussion.
Free For All: The Public Library will have open captions. There will be an ASL interpreter to enhance accessibility during the panel discussion. Additionally, the library will provide portable receivers/headphone units for audience members who may be hard of hearing.
Panelists
Dr. Carol Barry
Bert R. and Judith I. Boyce Professor in the School of Information Studies at Louisiana State University
Tyler Litt
Social Impact Strategist, Leadership Advisor, and Founder of HireLitt
Mary Stein
Moderator, Assistant Library Director at East Baton Rouge Parish Library
About The Free For All: The Public Library
Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public in myriads of ways, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.
Film Director Dawn Logsdon travels the United States, discovering historic and modern-day figures, especially women, who contributed to the library’s integral position within democracy. Free For All: The Public Library chronicles the evolution of the nation’s public libraries, tracing the battles over who can enter, what belongs there, and who makes these decisions, while exploring how public commons are defined and defended.
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