In celebration of Women’s History Month, Ohio University Southern proudly presents a free screening of Free for All: The Public Library in partnership with WOUB Public Media. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Briggs Lawrence County Public Library director Gretchen Claypool and OHIO Southern Library manager Barbara Costas-Biggs.

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.

DATE/TIME: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:30pm

LOCATION: OHIO Southern – Rotunda, Riffe Building

AUDIENCE: Free and open to the public

CONTACT: Robert Pleasant, pleasanr@ohio.edu, 740-533-4600