Policy on Intellectual Freedom adopted at the Annual General Meeting on 13th March 2003:
That this Annual General Meeting reaffirms the importance attached by the Library Association of Ireland to the principle of intellectual freedom, a principle recognized by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by the European Convention on Human Rights, by numerous Library Associations and by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Intellectual Freedom is at the core of library science because it is the basis of democracy and is essential to the cultural, social and economic rights of individuals and of society.
It in turn depends on the right to hold and express opinions and the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas, regardless of frontiers and through any medium, including the Internet. Therefore, this Association supports the general principle that access provided by the library profession to information generally and to the Internet in particular should, insofar as is practicable, be without political, religious, cultural or economic barriers except those necessary for the common good.