J. Robert Jamerson Memorial Library
American Library Association Codes
15.1 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.
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Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Material should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
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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.
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Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
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Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and and free access to ideas.
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A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
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Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basic, 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” reaffirm January 23, 1996, by the ALA Council
Adopted by the J. Robert Jamerson Memorial Library Board of Trustees on November 9, 2000.