Legislative libraries, then, must seek to be reliable, trusted partners of legislators, maintaining their commitment to the principles of confidentiality and nonpartisanship and to providing accurate research and information.
Employees stand to benefit from a new staffing regime that promotes flexibility, access, fairness and transparency, while ensuring that the values of merit and nonpartisanship remain at the heart of the system.
Thus UNESCO through its mandate and its history of being a chief forum and interlocutor of education ministries, who trust its objectivity and nonpartisanship, has a uniquely comprehensive and international perspective.
For its part, Canadian organized labour, by abandoning the nonpartisanship espoused by the AFL CIO, not only gained political muscle but also became a progressive force in the nation's public life.
The incident was about an organization's preserving its reputation for nonpartisanship, not curbing the free speech of its employees.
Indeed, nonpartisanship may have enhanced the importance of lobbyists in the legislative process.
