By Claire Booth
Of all the accounts and credit
cards and license plates that populate my life, there is only one string of
numbers that I actually have memorized. The one on my library card.
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| My very well-used library card. |
I can type it in five seconds flat.
And I do, very frequently. I’m always reserving books online or checking them
out at the quick self-serve kiosk at my local branch. When I’m there, I see
teenagers doing their homework and reading graphic novels after school;
retirees working on family history through the free genealogy database access; community
groups using the meeting room; and best of all, small children balancing tall
stacks of picture books that they insist they can handle by themselves.
So I was delighted this week when
the Sacramento County Public Library challenged me on Twitter to post a book
cover a day for seven days. It was a fun task that had me looking through my books
in a way I haven’t in quite a while, purely as a form of visual art.
Here are my seven covers. What do
you think of my choices? And what covers would you pick?
