LIB: Library Policies and Procedures

General Comments

The East Central College Library collection supports undergraduate study, faculty instruction and research across all curricula and recreational needs.  ECC Library collection reflects various view points and different philosophies.  Inclusion of a resource does not mean that the East Central College endorses or advocates the ideas or statements found in that resource.

Actions

A completed Request for Reconsideration form must be received by Director of Library Services. Please fill out the form with as much specific detail as possible. This request is confidential and your name and contact information will not share unless you release it.

Resources included in a Request for Reconsideration will not be removed automatically from the collections.  These resources will be evaluated based on the documented objections.

A written response of action will be provided in 7-10 business days.  Actions can be:

• removal of resources because it is inappropriate
• purchase of additional resource to balance said viewpoint
• no action at all, resource remains in collection

Academic Freedom is protected by East Central College Board Policy 5.6, http://www.eastcentral.edu/board-policies/5-6academic-freedom/

American Library Association (ALA) 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.

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 race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, age, or disability.
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.

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.