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I would love to hear more about your favorite office essentials. We recently needed to buy some writing instruments and I spent way too long debating over recycled pencils (without metal or erasers), cedar pencils from the US, bamboo pencils, only lead pencils,
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(P.S. My team has a few epic fails in this category; ask me about our 30$ bamboo pencils or mini soy crayons at PLA this year. 😉)</div>
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Hazel</div>
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I doubt these are ideal choices, but they're what I currently am using:</div>
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Glue:</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: black; background-color: white;">Hazel Onsrud | Ms./Mx./she/her/they/them | Adult Services Librarian</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: black; background-color: white;"><a href="https://curtislibrary.com/" class="ContentPasted0" title="https://curtislibrary.com/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Curtis
Memorial Library</a> | The public library in <a href="https://native-land.ca/maps/territories/wabanaki-confederacy/" class="ContentPasted0" title="https://native-land.ca/maps/territories/wabanaki-confederacy/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Brunswick, Maine</a> & <a href="https://www.climatecrew.org/resilience_hubs?locale=en" class="ContentPasted0" title="https://www.climatecrew.org/resilience_hubs?locale=en" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
a Climate Resilience Hub</a></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: black; background-color: white;">207.725.5242 ext. 228 | hazel@curtislibrary.com</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: black;">Check out our
<a href="https://curtislibrary.com/adults/library-of-things/" target="_blank" class="ContentPasted0" title="https://curtislibrary.com/adults/library-of-things/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Library of Things</a> and ask us how we're working to support the <a href="https://librarymap.ifla.org/" target="_blank" class="ContentPasted0" title="https://librarymap.ifla.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Sustainable Development Goals</a>. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: black; background-color: white;">Yes</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, we're part of the
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Libraries Initiative</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: black;">and have submitted our story to the
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Join us!</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p>
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