The Berlin Free Town Library fully subscribes to the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights, and The Freedom to View as follows:
1. As a responsibility of library services, books and other library materials selected should be chosen for values of interest, information, and enlightenment of all the people of the community. In no case shall library material be excluded because of age, gender, race, religion, national origins, or social or political views of the authors (including all federally protected classifications).
2. Libraries should provide books and materials presenting all points of view concerning the problems and issues of our times: no library materials should be proscribed or removed from libraries because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
3. Censorship should be challenged by libraries in the maintenance of their responsibility to provide public information and enlightenment.
4. Libraries should use cooperation with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
5. The rights of an individual to the use of a library should not be denied or abridged because of age, gender, race, religion, national origins, or social or political views (or any other federally protected classification).
6. As an institution of education for democratic living, the library should welcome the use of its meeting rooms for socially useful and cultural activities and discussion of current public questions. Such meeting places should be available on all equal terms to all groups in the community regardless of the beliefs and affiliations of their members, provided that the meetings be open to the public.