{"id":357254,"date":"2026-07-01T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357254\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:33:28","slug":"vote-now-for-austin-public-librarys-next-library-card-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357254\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote now for Austin Public Library&#8217;s next library card design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/article\/austin-central-library-time-mag-list-architecture-22299263.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Public Library<\/a> approaches its 100th anniversary, Austinites have the chance to help choose the next library card design.<\/p>\n<p>The library has opened public voting for its Centennial Library Card Art Contest after receiving more than 100 submissions from artists across three age groups: children, teens and adults. There are five finalists in each age category.<\/p>\n<p>Voting is open through July 31, and one winning design will be selected from each category.\u00a0The new cards will be released in September as part of National Library Card Sign-up Month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The contest is one of several events planned as part of the library&#8217;s centennial celebration, commemorating 100 years of service since 1926. It&#8217;s the library&#8217;s first public art contest since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Current cards feature a simple and straightforward design.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists&#8217; designs showcase a variety of artistic styles inspired by the centennial milestone. The children&#8217;s designs feature birthday themes like cakes, candles and festive characters in party hats. Many teen submissions took a more futuristic and abstract approach, imagining what libraries could look like in the years ahead. Adult finalists drew inspiration from Central Texas, incorporating local wildlife and recognizable Austin imagery.<\/p>\n<p>Residents can cast one vote in each of the three age\u00a0range categories through July 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Austin Public Library approaches its 100th anniversary, Austinites have the chance to help choose the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-357254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}