Public libraries are known for collecting the words of others. But our staff sometimes have to write their own–and in the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper.

Thank you to our friends at ARLnow.com, for giving us a big box of brand-new blue ballpoints, orphaned in a promotional sense because of a logo mix-up.

We’re fine with the aesthetics. And who doesn’t like to read or write the words “recycling” and “savings”?