Hate book bans? Let’s discuss!

Join Lancaster Public Library and Millersville University of Pennsylvania as we present the 2024 film, Banned Together, followed by a discussion with a “power panel” of librarians. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the historical and future implications of book bans and curriculum censorship in public schools and beyond.

The panel will follow a viewing of the 90-minute film.

The documentary Banned Together pulls back the curtain on two of the most controversial issues in America today: book bans and curriculum censorship in public schools. Banned Together follows three students and their adult allies as they fight to reinstate 97 books suddenly pulled from their school libraries. As they evolve from local to national activists – meeting with bestselling/banned authors, politicians, Constitutional experts, and more – the film reveals the dark forces behind the accelerating wave of book bans in the U.S. See the trailer here.

PANELISTS

• Sarah DeMaria, president elect of the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Advocacy Committee
• Coreena Byrnes, Director of Library Services at the Lancaster Public Library
• Matthew Good, awarded the 2024 John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award by the American Library Association

Registration is required · Library services will not be available after 7PM