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The Brooklyn Public Library is giving eCards to teens nationwide to challenge book bans.

Right now, and for a “limited time,” anyone in the United States between the age of 13 and 21 can apply for a free Brooklyn Public Library eCard, which gives access to 350,000 eBooks, 200,000 audiobooks, and online databases.

Teens who want to apply for the free eCard can send an email to [email protected] or a message to @bklynfuture on Instagram.

Tomorrow, come look for our table at the Saturday Market On The River from 8am-2pm on the 8th Street Plaza. You’ll have a chance to sign up for a library card and earn an entry into our prize drawings as well as receive a free tote bag (while supplies last). We will also have information on some of our current and upcoming programs. This project was made possible by the Georgia Public Library Service and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. For more information, go to arcpls.org/librarycard.

While downtown, be sure to visit local businesses such as The Book Tavern at its new location on 978 Broad Street (next to Nacho Mama’s restaurant). Looking forward to seeing you there!

Happy Library Card Sign-Up Month! To help us celebrate and to learn more about the benefits of having a library card, pick up a BINGO card from the YA area at Headquarters or download the graphic above for a chance to win prizes! When you complete a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line, turn in your card to the Information Services Desk on the 2nd floor at Headquarters or email an image of your card to [email protected] by September 30, 2021 to earn a prize.

For ages 11-18 (grades 6-12).

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Story Time:

Working in retail is really fun, and the times when major fuck-ups happen, they can be either anxiety-attack inducing, or make it possible to get through the rest of your god-awful shift with a smile depending on the customer. My all-time favorite absolute fuck-up is as follows:

This kind woman is just doing her thing. She scans her membership card from her keychain. The register beeps to acknowledge the scan. We continue as usual. Neither of us notice right away, but after I’ve scanned a few more items, I hear a very quiet, “Um,” from the lady, very polite. I look at her. She is looking at the screen of my register, blinking. I, too, look.

And lo and behold. There is a charge of over four-thousand dollars ($4,000) worth of garlic bread staring us in the face. There are no words for a minute. We’re just… in awe. How did this happen? How the hell did this happen?

She didn’t even have garlic bread in her cart.

I sputter a partial apology - I was incapable of forming actual sentences in the moment - and try to void the garlic bread. Since there was no garlic bread to scan, I try to manually remove $4,000-some from this transaction.

Well, the registers don’t like it when you try to void off more than five dollars ($5) from a transaction, so naturally it pings my manager for confirmation, but she’s not by her pager.

At this point, both myself and the lady are just… dumbfounded. She’s not even mad. I’m not even all that embarrassed. Both of us are just looking at the screen. There’s a bit of laughter, but it’s mostly just… confusion.

I have to call through the whole store for my manager on the intercom because she’s not answering. She shows up, ready to override and void it, when she too, sees what exactly is being voided.

“What… did you do?”

“Igenuinely. Have literally.No. Idea.”

She voids it, and I go to finish the transaction and tell the woman her total (minus the garlic bread). My register pings. It tells me that she hasn’t scanned her membership card. Odd. I distinctly remember her doing that. The woman goes to scan her card again, and I notice that her library card is stuck to her membership card. I tell her gently, and she separates the two and scans her card.

My manager, hovering nearby still, sees this and says, “I think it mistook the barcode of her other card for garlic bread, and the remaining digits were read as the price.”

And that’s when the laughter really came over us. There were no hard feelings at all. In fact, the woman was incredibly glad that the receipt still showed the garlic bread and the voiding of. I will remember it until the end of time, my only regret in the entire situation being that I didn’t take a damn picture, because she has proof and I don’t. But I swear to God it happened.

TDLR; Library Card Charged $4,000 of Garlic Bread.

that’s just how valuable library cards are. each one is worth at least $4000 of garlic bread

A picture is worth a thousand words, a library card is worth $4000 worth of garlic bread, if we can figure out how many words the average library card can check out at once, we can probably work out a picture-to-garlic bread conversion here, too.