'Free for All' and Friends of the Library: A Free National Friends of Libraries Week Webinar

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National Friends of Libraries Week October 19-25, 2025

Celebrate National Friends of Libraries Week and learn more about the film, 'Free for All,' and find out how to present a screening at your library (free or discounted for eligible libraries).

Description

Join Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor, the filmmakers who created the acclaimed documentary 'Free for All: The Public Library,' to learn more about the film, and find out how to present a screening at your library (free or discounted for eligible libraries). Get tips and ideas for creating an event around the film from library Friends around the country.

'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 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.

Presenters

Dawn Logsdon

Dawn Logsdon, director of Free for All, produced, directed, and edited Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. Her editing credits include Jacques Pepin: The Art of Craft, The Weather Underground, Paragraph 175, The Castro, The Vanishing Line, and Have You Heard From Johannesburg among others.

Lucie Faulknor

Lucie Faulknor, producter of Free for All, is an arts management and documentary film professional. Founder at Serendipity Films, LLC, she produced the award-winning documentary Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. Lucie has worked with SFJAZZ, City Arts & Lectures, Dublin Fringe Festival, and more. She holds a Master of Nonprofit Administration.

Accessibility

This session will be held in Zoom with automatic Zoom captioning available. If you require a reasonable accommodation to fully participate in this event, please contact United for Library by phone at 312-280-2161 or by email at united@ala.org by October 15, 2025, with the nature of your request.

Staff Contact

Please contact United for Libraries staff by email at united@ala.org.

Event tags:

Intellectual Freedom & Copyright

Online

Public Library

Trustees, Friends & Foundations

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October 21, 2025

6:00 - 7:00pm CDT

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