Join us on March 19th at 5:30 pm for a timely and important screening of The Librarians!  Doors open promptly at 5:30 and the screening itself will start at 6:00 pm. This film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and has won more than 20 festival awards nationwide!

Across the country, books are being removed from schools and libraries at an unprecedented rate, often driven by religious or ideological objections. The Librarians is a powerful documentary that highlights librarians as frontline defenders of the First Amendment and intellectual freedom during an unprecedented wave of book challenges. Join us!

Public libraries and public schools belong to everyone. When one set of beliefs dictates what the public can read, it raises fundamental questions about pluralism, democracy, and who controls public institutions. Ahead of the screening, brief remarks will connect the film’s themes to what is happening nationally and here in our own community and highlight opportunities to learn more and take action.

This event is part of the Jewish Women and Religious Freedom in Pittsburgh Project’s coordinated series exploring the connection between book bans, the freedom to read, and the separation of church and state. Register on this page today for this local in-person screening of The Librarians at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Main branch. While this event is free and open to the public, advance registration is encouraged. Doors open at 5:30 pm. Screening begins at 6:00 pm.

Parking - library visitors are welcome to park in the pay-lot shared by Carnegie Museums and Carnegie Library. The entrance is at Forbes Avenue and Craig Street. There is also on-street pay parking available around the Library. For more information on parking click here.

This event is part of our “Freedom to Read Without Religious Coercion” series, an initiative of the Jewish Women and Religious Freedom in Pittsburgh Project underwritten, in part, by Trustee Nancy Weissman, in memory of her beloved mother-in-law, Trustee Jackie Wechsler and hosted by Jews for a Secular Democracy. This particular program is presented in partnership with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the Judith Fingeret Krug First Amendment Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.

Accessibility:

CLP – Main has two accessible entrances. The first is via a lift underneath the Library’s main entrance facing Schenley Plaza. The lift is accessible via a set of sidewalk switchbacks to the right of the front steps. There is a switch-assisted door that leads to the lift.

The other way to enter the Main Library is from the library/museum parking lot opposite Craig Street. There is designated accessible parking both above ground and in the garage. From the garage, take the elevators to the 6th floor and exit to the left. Access to the Library is through the Portal Entrance. Once you pass through the glass doors take the left side ramp and make the first right turn into the hallway with the photographs on the wall. Follow the signs for the Library Elevator.

Restrooms are fully accessible.