Everett Library revamps cards
Published 11:09 pm Monday, August 11, 2008
EVERETT — Everett Public Library is adding a little color to its library cards.
The library earlier this year began offering patrons their choice of five new library card designs — key-chain cards or standard cards.
“People have been asking us for a key-chain-style card for quite a while,” library director Eileen Simmons said. “And since we were beginning to run out of our old cards we took the opportunity to change the way the cards look.”
The library’s in-house graphic artist Kevin Duncan designed all the cards. There’s one with a bookworm, another with an anime-style DJ and yet another with books in the sky.
It’s just one of several recent changes to the library.
Late last year, the two-branch library system began offering patrons the ability to download audio books to their personal computers, cell phones and portable digital audio players.
It also set in motion NextReads, an electronic newsletter with regular updates on new books in 20 genres — including fitness, science fiction and romance — and Books24x7, a database of more than 5,000 technology books that can be downloaded from a home computer.
The library also carries a simple digital audio book player called Playaway. The device is about half the size of a pack of cards. It can be plugged into a car stereo.
With the new library cards, photos of patrons will no longer appear on library cards.
Instead, digital photos of the cardholder will be display on the check-out desk computer.
More online: www.epls.org.
