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- Registration will close on April 24, 2026 @ 7:00pm.
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Program Description
Event Details
Enjoy documentaries featured on PBS’s Independent Lens. These screenings offer a space for sharing ideas and making connections that shape our understanding of ourselves and the world.
The Librarians takes viewers from Texas to Florida and beyond where local libraries have become unexpected battlegrounds in a national struggle over parental control, intellectual freedom and democracy itself.
A panel discussion with local advocates and experts will follow the Friday screening. No panel discussion following the Saturday encore screening.
Panelists include:
• Jennifer Hovanec, La Grange Public, Library Executive Director
• Joanna Marek, Spring Avenue Elementary School Librarian
• Joyce Hagen-McIntosh, Program Director, Freedom to Read Foundation
• Kristin Pekoll, Conference and Continuing Education Manager at the Illinois Library Association