Library Bill of Rights
- As a responsibility of library service, books and other library materials
selected should be chosen for values of interest, information, and
enlightenment of all the people of the community. In no case should library
materials be excluded because of the race or nationality or the social,
political, or religious views of the authors.
- Libraries should provide books and other materials presenting all points
of view concerning the problems and issues of our times; no library materials
should be proscribed or removed form libraries because of partisan or
doctrinal disapproval.
- Censorship should be challenged by libraries in the maintenance of their
responsibility to provide public information and enlightenment.
- Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with
resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
- The rights of an individual to the use of a library should not be denied
or abridged because of his age, race, religion, national origins or social or
political view.
- As an institution of education for democratic living, the library should
welcome the use of its meeting rooms for socially useful and cultural
activities and discussion of current public questions. Such meeting places
should be available on equal terms to all groups in the community regardless
of the beliefs and affiliations of their members provide that the meetings be
open to the public.
Updated September 29, 2004
