The criteria for selecting library materials shall be considered on the basis of : overall purpose, timeliness or permanence, importance of the subject matter, quality of the writing/production, readability and popular appeal, authoritiveness, reputation of the publisher/producer, reputation and significance of the author/artist/composer/producer, etc., format and price. No book shall be excluded solely because of the race, nationality, or political or religious views of the author.

At all levels the following specific criteria are al guides for the selection of any book:

Aid to the curriculum   
Does it offer information suited to the curriculum?

Individual inquiry   
Does it further the interest of the pupil? (i.e. intellectual, emotional or recreational satisfaction of the reader?

Daily living   
Does it characterize daily life truthfully, or are stereotypes and false situations presented?

Information   
Is the presentation honest, not enforced just to convey that particular bit of information?

Illustrations   
Are they in good taste and/or appropriate?

Literary Quality   
Is it relevant, is the materials of permanent value, does it show insight into human characteristics, does it portray a positive outlook on life, does it provide the potential for behavioral change?

Controversial issues shall be covered from all points of view as fully as possible. books or other reading matter of sound factual authority shall not be removed for partisan or doctrinal reasons. The areas of thought in which criticism most frequently arises are religion, political ideologies, and sex.

Religion   
Material on religious subjects should be available, and should be factual, unbiased, and broadly representative.

Political Ideologies   
Factual material on an appropriate reading level should be available concerning those ideologies which exert influence on government, education, or any phase of our common life.

Sex and Profanity   
Inclusion of profanity or frank treatment of sex necessitates a searching evaluation of the merits -- literary quality, true to life, relevance to the curriculum -- that the works in question may possess. Material of this nature will receive approval only if it is determined that it fills a void that cannot be met via other media.