(United States, 2025, 92 minutes, color. Directed by Kim Snyder)

 

Join us for a screening of this surprise hit documentary film, followed by a conversation and Q&A with a panel of local librarians, including:

• Alicia Abdul of Albany High School

• Roger Green of the Albany Public Library Foundation

• Amanda Lowe of the University at Albany Libraries.

 

The film profiles librarians across America as they face and combat book-banning— defending intellectual freedom on democracy’s frontlines amid unprecedented censorship in Texas, Florida, and beyond. The film features librarians who have been fired for refusing to remove books from the shelves, or simply for questioning the directive to do so.

 

The New York Times said, “From its superb opening-credits sequence paying tribute to card catalogs of yore to its sharp selection of vintage clips and intimate reportage, 'The Librarians' is as well-crafted as it is profoundly alarming.”

 

Cosponsored by the Capital District Library Council (CDLC)