Is the Library Card Dying?
After centuries of innovation, it faces an uncertain future: an Object Lesson.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/library-card/477162/
“Serious library-card collectors approach the pursuit more systematically than I do. A high-school freshman in California, for example, maintains a collection of more than 3,000 cards. A librarian in Nebraska scans valid library cardsfrom all over the world and posts the images online. The retired librarian Larry Nix maintains a web page of older library cards, or “library tickets,” dating back to 1846, which demonstrate more variety in size, color, and wording than the library cards of today.”
Stephen
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