Giving The Gift Of Reading

I called up my local Toronto public library branch to see if I could somehow give library cards as gifts to friends. New signups require a health card or similar identification, so I knew it wouldn’t be that easy, but maybe they had a pretty gift-form or something. Their response:

“I’ve never heard of that. You know library cards are free?”

I think the idea has merit regardless of the cost, or lack thereof, but I wasn’t making a believer out of the librarian. The public library has extremely limited time and money, but I think there’s something to this. Making membership social, fashionable, and all that.