LWVNCC supports policies and funding for public school library media centers that promote their central role in providing equal opportunity for all children to achieve educational excellence.

Funding to provide library resources should be equally available to all students and staff in public schools in New Castle County.
Specific considerations:
- Each public school library media center should be staffed by at least one certified library media specialist, with clerical assistance.
- Training in the use of new technology should be provided for all public school librarians and staff.
- Public school library media centers should have, or have access to, both print and non-print materials, e.g., books, magazines, data bases, Internet, a variety of media and electronic resources. Resources should be up-to-date, especially in areas where currency is essential, e.g., reference, science, etc.
- A specific percentage of state education funds should be dedicated to public school library media centers each year, preferably through a line item in the state budget.

▪ Public school library media center collections should support each school's curricula.
▪ Public school library media centers should be evaluated periodically.
▪ There should be an ongoing maintenance program for all technology hardware for public school library media centers. Maintenance should not be part of the school library media specialist's duties.
▪ Policies and practices of public school library media centers should adhere to the concept of intellectual freedom and the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights.

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.
▪ 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.
▪ 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 and doctrinal disapproval.
▪ Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
▪ Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgement of free expression and free access to ideas.
▪ A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
▪ 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.