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The San Diego Public Library endorses and supports the Library Bill of Rights adopted by
the Council of the 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility
to provide information and enlightenment.
- Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting
abridgment 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 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, by the ALA Council.
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