It is excerpted below as the latest installment in the NCompass Newsletter series exploring applications of intellectual freedom and the Library Bill of Rights. Users' access should not be changed without due process . . . Users have the right to be free of unreasonable limitations or conditions . . . Users have a right to information, training and assistance . . .
Users have both the right of confidentiality and the right of privacy . . .
Rights of users who are minors shall in no way be abridged. It challenges libraries to develop policies and procedures that ensure equitable access to information resources and particularly to scrutinize those involving fees or user charges for potential barriers to access. We continue to struggle with the question of whether fee for use is a greater barrier to citizen access than no access in the library at all. Libraries and librarians should provide access to information presenting all points of view. The provision of access does not imply sponsorship or endorsement.