1. 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.
2. 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.
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 expression 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.