Resources to examine our inherent bias, promote personal awareness, and help us build collections for our students that reflect themselves and the world around them.
The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.
An interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights maintaining that libraries and librarians have an obligation to resist efforts that systematically exclude materials dealing with any subject matter, including sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
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Perma-Bound's Manage My Collection is a comparative tool that matches your school or library's Machine Readable Cataloging data against Perma-Bound's entire product inventory.
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