About LCN

Littleton Community Network is a community information database that is available to the public via the Internet. The Littleton Community Network project developed from an identified need for access to information about the community and its resources, expressed in the Littleton Unlimited Report to the Community and Strategic Plan in January 1995.

The information is maintained by citizen volunteers. Direct links connect users to areas such as the local school district, county Web sites, and South Suburban Parks and Recreation. There is no charge for civic organizations and community groups to post information on LCN

Mission Statement

The mission of the Littleton Community Network is to provide information about the services and resources available in the greater Littleton community.

Non-Commercial Focus

LCN will concentrate its resources on information of a clearly nonprofit, community-oriented nature, although we may seek out information of particular interest from other sources. We reserve the right to include for-profit groups and information as deemed appropriate.

Disclaimer

The Littleton Community Network (LCN) Web site ("the system") is provided to you by the Littleton Community Network, a Colorado not-for-profit corporation. The information contained in the system is not provided or published by this organization.
The persons or entities providing the information (the "information providers") and LCN disclaim any responsibility for the content, quality, performance or any other aspect of this information.
LCN and the information providers make no representation or warranty relating to your use of the system or the information, including without limitation the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
In no event will LCN and the information providers be liable for any consequential, incidental, indirect or special damages resulting directly or indirectly from your use of the system.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold LCN and the information providers harmless from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) resulting, directly or indirectly, from your use of the system.
The information contained on this system is not intended to supplant individual professional consultation, but is offered as a community education service. Advice on individual problems should be obtained directly from a professional.

Commitment to Access

LCN will endeavor to provide access to all groups of people, particularly those without ready access to information technology.
LCN will endeavor to provide access to people with diverse needs. This may include special purpose interfaces.
LCN will endeavor to make the database accessible at no charge from public access computers at Bemis Public Library.

Commitment to Service

LCN is committed to encouraging the education, growth and acceptance of the Internet by Littleton area residents and businesses.
LCN will strive to provide information that is timely and useful to the community.
LCN will provide information that focuses primarily on the greater Littleton area.
LCN may provide access to statewide, national as well as international information if such content is deemed to increase the overall benefit of the database.
LCN will build a system that can serve as a model for other communities.
LCN will continue to evolve and improve the system.

Commitment to Democracy

The community will be actively involved in the ongoing development of the system.
LCN places a high value on freedom of speech and expression and in the free exchange of ideas. We subscribe to the Library Bill of Rights , Freedom to Read and Freedom to View.
LCN will make every effort to ensure privacy of the system users.
LCN supports democratic use of electronic technology.

Library Bill of Rights

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.
Libraries should provide materials and information representing all current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
Libraries should challenge censorship in fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgement of free expression and free access to ideas.
A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background or views.
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 them.

Freedom to Read

It is in the public interest for publishers and librarians to make available the widest diversity of views and expressions, including those which are unorthodox or unpopular with the majority.
Publishers, librarians and booksellers do not need to endorse every idea or presentation contained in the books they make available. It would conflict with the public interest for them to establish thier own political, moral or aesthetic views as a standard for determining what books should be published or circulated.
It is contrary to the public interest for publishers to determine the acceptability of a book on the basis of the personal history or political affiliations of the author.
There is no place in our sociey for efforts to coerce the taste of others, to confine adults to the reading matter deemed suitable for adolescents, or to inhibit the efforts of writers to acheive artistic expression.
It is not in the public interest to force a reader to accept with any book the prejudgment of a label characterizing the book or author as subversive or dangerous.
It is the responsibility of publishers and librarians, as guardians of the people's freedon to read, to contest encroachments upon that freedom to read by individuals or groups seeking to impose their own standards or tastes upon the community at large.
It is the responsibility of publishers and librarians to give full meaning to the freedom to read by providing books that enrich the quality and diversity of thought and expression. By the exercise of this affirmative responsibility, bookmen can demonstrate that the answer to a bad book is a good one, the answer to a bad idea is a good one.

Freedom to View

It is in the public interest to provide the broadest possible access to films and other audiovisual materials because they have proven to be among the most effective means for the communication of ideas. Liberty of circulation is essential to insure the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression.
It is in the public interest to provide for our audiences film and other audiovisual materials which represent a diversity of views and expression. Selection of a work does not constitute or imply agreement with or approval of the content.
It is our professional responsibility to resist the constraint of labeling or prejudging a film on the basis of the moral, religious or political beliefs of the producer or film-maker or on the basis of controversial content.
It is our professional responsibility to contest vigorously, by all lawful means, every encroachment upon the public's freedom to view.