Principles: The Hamilton Declaration
A declaration respecting the guiding principles of CARL and its members
Access to Information
The Association supports and promotes the right of all individuals to have access to all expressions of knowledge, creativity and intellectual activity.
Creating Knowledgeable Information Users
The Association believes researchers and students should have the necessary skills to be independent information seekers and users.
Research Libraries-- A Strategic National Resource
The Association recognizes the collective human and material resources of its members as constituting a strategic national information resource.
Resource Sharing
The Association endorses the sharing of resources among its members as an activity essential to providing access to information required by the scholarly community.
Scholarly Communication
The Association has a fundamental role in facilitating and enhancing the process of scholarly communication.
For greater certainty
It is the position of the Association that withdrawal of material from the collection of any of its member libraries on the basis of content is an extremely serious matter, clearly having the potential of contravening the CARL/ABRC Policy Statement on Freedom of Expression.
