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In the wake of an incident last month, in which a library custodian was pricked with a hypodermic needle at the Ballard library, the Seattle Public Library system will install sharps containers on a pilot basis at several of its branches, potentially including Ballard. The custodian was taking out the trash in the women’s restroom when he was stuck with a needle tucked inside the package for a sanitary pad and was taken to the hospital, where he was released without incident.

Earlier this month, library spokeswoman Andra Addison said SPL had no plans to install sharps containers in any of its branches, despite the recent dramatic uptick in public use of injection drugs, including heroin and fentanyl. At that time, Addison noted that illegal drug use is against the library’s rules of conduct, and that the Ballard incident was the first one she was aware of where a library employee had been pricked by a needle.

Addison claimed the incident in Ballard was the first of its kind in the library system, and said “we don’t really have a need for” containers for drug users (and insulin-dependent diabetics, for that matter) to dispose of used needles.

But since then, the library has changed direction on the sharps issue. Last week, SPL chief librarian Marcellus Turner told a citizen inquiring about sharps containers that the library “recognize[s] we need to enhance our practices and are moving in that direction.”