County of Los Angeles Public Library
Rights of the Child
Every child has the right to be accepted as an individual and to receive help
in becoming the person she/he wishes to be.
The County of Los Angeles Public Library serves the child from infancy to
adulthood by providing access to total library services. Responsive,
professionally educated children's librarians foster the enjoyment of reading
and use of library resources.
We remind parents that the library staff cannot assume responsibility for
unattended children.
We encourage adults and children to explore the library together and to get to
know their local library staff. We hope using the library will become an
enjoyable lifelong habit.
County of Los Angeles Public Library
Adapted from the CLA/Children's Services Chapter "California Libraries Provide..."
Each Child Has the Right To:
- Discover the world through materials that inform and arouse curiosity and awareness
- Gain information about self, through
- resources which offer insight
- materials about his/her culture and heritage
- access to reliable information on physical growth and development
- recognition and understanding of the rights of others
- Develop imagination
- Use a library environment which meets the need to be free to pursue individual interests at an individual pace
- Choose from a wide and varied collection of books and non-print materials
- Have access to the best available programs
- Full library facilities and services and to the expertise of a professional children's librarian
- Have an advocate who represents these needs in the public library
County of Los Angeles Public Library Offers...
- Materials
- Special Events
- To promote regular library use
- Pre-School Story Hours
- To enhance early childhood development
- Readers' Advisory Services
- To stimulate interest in reading
- Film Showings
- Cooperation With Other Agencies
- To share ideas, exchange information about services and provide materials
- Coordinated Programs With Educational Institutions and Youth Groups
- Provide library tours and visits to school classes with stories and book talks
- Teacher loans
- Vacation Loans
