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The Iowa City Public Library takes great pride in offering a quality collection. The number one goal of the strategic plan calls on the library to, “Offer and promote quality collections that inform, enrich, and entertain, reflecting a diverse community.”

The Collection Development Policy states that the Library will offer the “widest possible range of subjects and views in a variety of formats, treatments and levels of difficulty, within the limits of cost and space and considering current holdings and demand.”

The Library subscribes to the principles embodied in the Library Bill of Rights and its interpretations, Freedom to Read, and Freedom to View statements adopted by the American Library Association and recognizes that any given item may offend some patrons, but because the library follows adopted principles of intellectual freedom, it will not remove specific titles solely because individuals or groups may find them objectionable.