LCN Policies
Mission Statement
The mission of the Littleton Community Network is to
provide information about the services and resources available in the
greater Littleton community. Database contents will include, but not be
limited to, information about cultural and recreational activities, family
services, community events and programs, governmental issues, volunteer
opportunities, and the services provided by nonprofit organizations.
Non-Commercial Focus
LCN will concentrate its resources on information of
a clearly nonprofit, community-oriented nature, although we may seek out
information of particular interest from other sources. We reserve the
right to include for-profit groups and information as deemed appropriate.
Disclaimer
- The Littleton Community Network (LCN) Web site ("the system")
is provided at no charge by the Littleton Community Network, a Colorado
not-for-profit corporation. The information contained in the system
is not provided or published by this organization.
- The persons or entities providing the information (the "information
providers") and LCN disclaim any responsibility for the content,
quality, performance or any other aspect of this information.
- LCN and the information providers make no representation or warranty
relating to the use of the system or the information, including without
limitation the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for
a particular purpose.
- In no event will LCN and the information providers be liable for any
consequential, incidental, indirect or special damages resulting directly
or indirectly from use of the system.
- Visiters agree to defend, indemnify, and hold LCN and the information
providers harmless from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities,
costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) resulting, directly
or indirectly, from the use of the system.
- The information contained on this system is not intended to supplant
individual professional consultation, but is offered as a community
education service. Advice on individual problems should be obtained
directly from a professional.
Commitment to Access
- LCN will endeavor to provide access to all groups of people, particularly
those without ready access to information technology.
- LCN will endeavor to provide access to people with diverse needs.
This may include special purpose interfaces.
- LCN will endeavor to make the database accessible at no charge from
public access computers at Bemis Public Library.
Commitment to Service
- LCN is committed to encouraging the education, growth and acceptance
of the Internet by Littleton area residents and businesses.
- LCN will strive to provide information that is timely and useful to
the community.
- LCN will provide information that focuses primarily on the greater
Littleton area.
- LCN may provide access to statewide, national as well as international
information if such content is deemed to increase the overall benefit
of the database.
- LCN will build a system that can serve as a model for other communities.
- LCN will continue to evolve and improve the system.
Commitment to Democracy
- The community will be actively involved in the ongoing development
of the system.
- LCN places a high value on freedom of speech and expression and in
the free exchange of ideas. We subscribe to the Library
Bill of Rights, Freedom to Read and Freedom to View.
- LCN will make every effort to ensure privacy of the system users.
- LCN supports democratic use of electronic technology.
- 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 representing all
current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or
removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
- Libraries should challenge censorship in 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 them.
- It is in the public interest for publishers and librarians to make
available the widest diversity of views and expressions, including those
which are unorthodox or unpopular with the majority.
- Publishers, librarians and booksellers do not need to endorse every
idea or presentation contained in the books they make available. It
would conflict with the public interest for them to establish thier
own political, moral or aesthetic views as a standard for determining
what books should be published or circulated.
- It is contrary to the public interest for publishers to determine
the acceptability of a book on the basis of the personal history or
political affiliations of the author.
- There is no place in our sociey for efforts to coerce the taste of
others, to confine adults to the reading matter deemed suitable for
adolescents, or to inhibit the efforts of writers to acheive artistic
expression.
- It is not in the public interest to force a reader to accept with
any book the prejudgment of a label characterizing the book or author
as subversive or dangerous.
- It is the responsibility of publishers and librarians, as guardians
of the people's freedon to read, to contest encroachments upon that
freedom to read by individuals or groups seeking to impose their own
standards or tastes upon the community at large.
- It is the responsibility of publishers and librarians to give full
meaning to the freedom to read by providing books that enrich the quality
and diversity of thought and expression. By the exercise of this affirmative
responsibility, bookmen can demonstrate that the answer to a bad book
is a good one, the answer to a bad idea is a good one.
- It is in the public interest to provide the broadest possible access
to films and other audiovisual materials because they have proven to
be among the most effective means for the communication of ideas. Liberty
of circulation is essential to insure the constitutional guarantee of
freedom of expression.
- It is in the public interest to provide for our audiences film and
other audiovisual materials which represent a diversity of views and
expression. Selection of a work does not constitute or imply agreement
with or approval of the content.
- It is our professional responsibility to resist the constraint of
labeling or prejudging a film on the basis of the moral, religious or
political beliefs of the producer or film-maker or on the basis of controversial
content.
- It is our professional responsibility to contest vigorously, by all
lawful means, every encroachment upon the public's freedom to view.
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