The 100th

Today marks the 100th article of The Magic Library Card! series published in this newspaper. Upon getting the series started on August 5, 2020, I had meant it to become a regular voice for Library Directors in the WLN, a placeholder for what they or staff needed or yearned to write. Things have not worked out quite that way. Maybe Directors are shy after all, or more likely just too busy. I know them to be very, very busy people, who are after all running corporations. Most of the articles, 90% or so, therefore, have been about what I have wanted to write, by default, and of somewhat different perspective. Except for those few others who have contributed pieces now and then, and with my deepest appreciation, the articles have become my own short weekly essays, always about Libraries t…