Events

"How Many Cards Are In That Thing?" Contest

• Guess the number of cards in a filled library exhibit case and win a fabulous prize!
• Contest runs through March 31, 2010

Winner: Patrick Olson, business student.
There are 87,820 cards and he estimated 88,888. 

Flash (Card) Fiction

• Flash (Card) Fiction Submissions

• Friday, March 19, 2010, Deadline
• Can an old library catalog card lead you to wax poetic? Write a song? Create a short story?
• Flash (Card) Fiction
• Card Selection (opens in a new window)

Art Invitational

• Friday, April 9, 2010 Deadline
• Create library-inspired art to be displayed in celebration of National Library Week, April 11-17
• Use your imagination.  All forms of art accepted! We ask only that at least one card be used in a project.  Cards available in Thomas Cooper Library.
• Submit your project by April 9th to the Thomas Cooper Library Reference Desk to be displayed in the library or send a photograph, link to YouTube, or whatever to  so we can showcase it on the It’s All in the Cards website 
• More information (Adobe PDF)

Float a Boat

• April 27, noon
• Make a boat out of catalog cards and join the "floatilla" on the Thomas Cooper Library reflecting pool.

Welcome Week, Fall 2010

• Craft a Literary Character Contest
• Jazz Funeral for the Card Catalog

• All in the Cards - Flickr Photos
  
  Previous Event Winners
  
  
• Cooper Trooper Video - video of car being covered with catalog cards


• "At the University of South Carolina, the Card Catalog Makes a Graceful Departure" - Library Journal article
• See us on Boing Boing!
• Gamecock article on card catalog commemoration
• "In Celebration of Catalog Cards" - American Libraries Direct article
• USC Times article commemorating the card catalog