Sacramento City College
Library and Instructional Media Center
Appendix
A
American
Library Association
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.
I.
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.
II.
Libraries should provide materials and information
presenting all points of view on current and historical issues.
Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or
doctrinal disapproval.
III.
Libraries should challenge censorship in the
fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
IV.
Libraries should cooperate with all persons and
groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to
ideas.
V.
A person’s right to use a library should not be
denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
VI.
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, and January 23,
1980, inclusion of “age” reaffirmed January 23, 1996, by the ALA Council.
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