 | Library Bill of Rights | |
In conjuntion with its role in promoting intellectual freedom, the Almond Bancroft School Library Media Program endorses the Library Bill of Rights which reads as follows:
The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.
- Books and other library resources should be provided for the interests, information and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded beacuse of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
- Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Material should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
- Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility ot provide information and enlightenment.
- Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups and groups concerned with resisting abridgement 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 should make such facilities available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individual or groups requesting their use.
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