Share your travels with the library

Times Reporter   

 

Tis the season for holiday travel, and so the Strathmore Municipal Library has a new contest that fits the travel season. The library has three different book bags that they sell; they would like to see people travel with their bag and share where they went. 

The idea is you take a picture of yourself and your book bag, or even of just your book bag and share it with the library. Anyone can enter whether you go to somewhere tropical or not.

“We are not restricting this just strictly to fly off destinations. The rules will be as long as your pictures are taken outside of Wheatland County or the Town of Strathmore,” said Assistant Director of Library Services Carmen Erison.

“You can take a picture of you and your book bag, or your book bag and a monument somewhere fun. You submit those to the library and at the end of the six months on May 31 we will draw a winner. We thought what a great way to show off our book bags around the world.”

All pictures taken and submitted will be posted to Facebook. Entries will be judged by staff members at the library and evaluated based on creativity and originality. 

“It would be difficult to pick a winner based on style and such on a picture because we don’t want to limit people to finances and those types of things. One person might take a picture of their book on a tropical island, another might take their picture in front of the Saddledome in Calgary,” said Erison.

There are three prizes: first place is a travel prize pack valued at $100 and will include one large item to be announced; the second prize will be a book prize pack valued at $30; and the third prize is a family library membership valued at $20.

If you don’t already have a book bag, head down to the library: the bags sell for $15 and $20.  

Go to www.strathmorelibrary.ca/bookbag for full contest details and the terms and conditions.