The Ridgefield Park Public Library deems reading is an individual, private matter. While anyone is free to select or reject materials for themselves, they cannot restrict the freedom of others to read or inquire. In addition, parents have the primary responsibility to guide and direct the reading of their own minor child. The library does not stand in loco parentis, in place of parents.
The American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights will always be important foundation statements underlying selection questions at Ridgefield Park Public Library.
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.
Adopted June 19, 1939, by the ALA Council; amended October 14, 1944; June 18, 1948; February 2, 1961; June 27, 1967; January 23, 1980; inclusion of “age” reaffirmed January 23, 1996. Retrieved from https://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/LBORwithInterpretations.pdf
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