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The
American Library Association's
LIBRARY BILL OF RIGHTS
- Books
and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information
and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves.
Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background,
or views of those contributing to their creation.
- Libraries
should provide materials and information representing all current and
historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because
of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
- Libraries
should challenge censorship in fulfillment of their responsibility to
provide information and enlightenment.
- Libraries
should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting
abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
- A
person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because
of origin, age, background or views.
- Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public
they serve and should make such facilities available on an equitable basis,
regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting
their use.
Adopted by Vote of the Library Board of Trustees, 11/13/89
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