The School District of New Lisbon recognizes that it is the primary objective of the library media center in our school to implement, enrich, and support the educational programs of the school. It is the duty of the library media center to provide a wide range of materials on all levels of difficulty, with diversity of appeal and the presentation of different points of view.

To this end, the Board of Education reaffirms the Bill of Rights for School Library Media Programs and asserts that the responsibility of the School Library Media Center is:

1    To provide materials that will enrich and support the curriculum, taking into consideration the varied interests, abilities, and maturity levels of the students served.

2    To provide materials that will stimulate growth in factual knowledge, literary appreciation, aesthetic values, and ethical standards

3    To provide a background of information which will enable students to make intelligent judgments in their daily life

4    To provide materials on opposing sides of controversial issues so that young citizens may develop under guidance the practice of critical analysis of all media. (Opinions expressed in library materials are not necessarily endorsed by the Board of Education.)

5    To provide materials representative of the many religious, ethnic, and cultural groups and their contribution to our American heritage

6    To place principle above personal opinion and reason above prejudice in selection of materials of the highest quality in order to assure a comprehensive collection appropriate for the users of the library media center.