USA Today has published this story by Joan Airoldi, Director of the library district in Whatcom County, Washington. Riveting stuff!

It was a moment that librarians had been dreading.

On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent stopped at the Deming branch of the Whatcom County Library System in northwest Washington and requested a list of the people who had borrowed a biography of Osama bin Laden.

We said no. Read more...