01 Dec 1992
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
A documentary about the New York Public Library, including the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts and the Schomberg Center in Harlem.
Free for All: The Public Library
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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Laurie Anderson Self
Deborah Caldwell-Stone Self
Malkia Cyril Self
Sylvia Flowers Self
Geraldine Edwards Hollis Self
Crosby Kemper Self
JoNell Kennedy Self
Jill Lepore Self
John Palfrey Self
Abigail Van Slyck Self
Ethelene Whitmire Self
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