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Message from the Director |
LIBRARY BILL OF RIGHTS The
American Library Association
affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that
the following basic policies should guide their services.
1. Books and other library resources should be
provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of
the community the library services. Materials should not be excluded
because of the origin, background, or view of those contributing to their
creation.
2. Libraries should provide materials and
information presenting all points of view on current and historical
issues. Materials should not be prescribed or removed because of partisan
or doctrinal disapproval.
3. Libraries should challenge censorship in the
fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and
enlightenment.
4. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and
groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expressions and free
access to ideas.
5. A person's right to use a library should not be
denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
6. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting
rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities
available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations
of individuals or groups requesting their use.
Adopted June 18, 1948. Amended February 2, 1961, June 27,
1967, and January 23, 1980 by the ALA Council. Reprinted with the
permission of the American
Library Association. |
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