http://yestoknow.com/2007/11/12/real-pencils-revisited/ Libraries, Learning, Life--how they converge Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:39:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://yestoknow.com/2007/11/12/real-pencils-revisited/#comment-40 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:05:00 +0000 http://yestoknow.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/real-pencils-revisited/#comment-40 Funny enough, inmates at the county jail have to use those little golf pencils in my poetry and writing class that I teach. I find it interesting that for years we have given patrons the same writing utensils that inmates have. I wonder what that says about the library’s state of mind. I understand the jail’s logic as the inmates could probably turn a regular sized pencil in to a prison shank (re: weapon). But why did we have them for so long at the library? Do we view the library as a prison and the patrons our inmates? Are we the wardens of the books? Ha, just kidding, but it is food for thought. Thanks Tony for eliminating the golf pencil and setting us free! It’s like the Shawshank Redemption, but with pencils! BTW, good book recommendation you left on my blog, I put it on my to-read list.

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