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Teen Library Card Design Contest

Pierce County teens cast a total of 1,240 online votes to select the new library card design. Winning design and artist >>

With a Pierce County Library card people get an array of free services, including:

Access to more than 1.3 million books, movies, CDs and more.
Professional online tutors to help students with homework.
Audiobooks to download to a home computer or portable device.
Credible, reliable information from e-sources of subscription magazines and more.
Best-sellers, biographies and Playaways (small portable audio recordings of books).

You may get a free Pierce County Library System card any time and open your world to information and imagination and change your life.
Check out the Library's current card selections. As an added option, the Library would like to offer a library card designed by teens. Teenagers and people of all ages will be able to get the new card.
Last year the Library issued more than 50,000 cards. Those included cards to new customers, as well as to people who lost their cards.
You have the opportunity to design the artwork that will be used on the new library card.

Pick up an entry form at any Pierce County Library, or download the form (PDF 309kb) from the Library's Web site.
Enter your artwork at one of Pierce County Library's 17 locations or mail to Teen Library Card Contest, Pierce County Library, 3005 112th St. E., Tacoma, WA 98446-2215.
Submit your entry between Wednesday, April 15 and Friday, May 15, 2009.

Professional artists will look at all the entries and choose the top artwork to be posted on the Library's Web site for online voting.
You and others may help select the winner from the finalists by voting online at the Library's Web site between Tuesday, June 9 and Tuesday, June 30.
Winner will be announced later this summer.

The winning artwork will be printed on library cards, along with the artist's name.
Winner’s name may appear in newspapers, on the Library’s Web site and in other communications.
You will be able to get a free teen-designed library card during the Library's third annual card drive this October.

Any teenager in grades 7 – 12 living or attending school in Pierce County is eligible to enter.
Entering the contest is free.
One entry per person.
Entries are due by May 15, 2009.
Artwork may be turned in at any Pierce County Library or mailed to Teen Library Card Contest, Pierce County Library, 3005 112th St. E., Tacoma, WA 98445-2215.
Art must be original and not published elsewhere.
Submitted art becomes property of Pierce County Library. The Library will retain all submissions.
Professional artists will review entries and select finalists.
The public will select the winner from the finalists via an online vote.
Library staff may modify the artwork to meet print requirements.
Artist’s name will appear on printed cards.
Winner’s name may appear in newspapers, on the Library’s Web site and in other communications.