Libraries provide to a free society the defense necessary against pressures toward conformity.
Libraries enrich their communities through provision of recreational reading, listening, and viewing materials for a wide variety of tastes and interests. Library employees should deem their freedom, and that of libraries and their users, of the utmost importance to the continued existence of democracy. The Board of Trustees empowers the Intellectual Freedom Committee to investigate and report to the Chairperson of the Council and the Board of Trustees about problems arising in the areas of concern described below. Reports to the Board will normally be given at regularly scheduled meetings, but the Chairperson, or an authorized deputy, shall call special meetings, as authorized under Article 3, Section 3.07, of the Code of Regulations of the Ohio Library Council, in circumstances which necessitate immediate action. The Council is concerned with actual or proposed restrictions on library materials or on the selection judgments, order procedures, or administrative practices of library employees, originating with individuals, voluntary committees, or administrative and governmental authorities.