LISNews: Librarian News

5 or six fine folks passed along This NYTimes story that asks do we as a nation really want to permit books that facilitate terrorism and mass murder?

The author sites numerous books that claim to have \"recipes\" for chemical or biological weapons.

\"I do think that there is forbidden knowledge, and for me the \'cookbooks\' fall into that class of information,\" said Dr. Ronald M. Atlas, the president of the American Society for Microbiology. \"I do not want to see them out there for potential use by terrorists.\"