Guam Department of Education's Library Mission

The library’s mission is to provide information in a variety of formats,

teach the skills to use them, and instill a desire in students to read and explore,

as lifelong learners.  

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.

1. 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.

2. 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 or doctrinal disapproval.

3. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.

4. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.

5. A person’s right to use a library should not be denied because of origin, age, background, or views.

6. 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.

        (Library Bill of Rights Adopted June 18, 1948. Amended February 2, 1961, and January

         23, 1980, inclusion of “age” reaffirmed January 23, 1996, by the ALA Council)