A few decades ago, checking out a library book meant writing your name on a lined, 3-by-5-inch card that a librarian then stamped the due date on. When you returned the book, the card went into a pocket that was glued inside the back cover.
Now that digital technology is everywhere, these cards are obsolete.
“For the most part, it’s just so foreign to younger generations, 30-year-olds and down,” says Kansas City artist Heidi Pitre, who’s been creating artwork on these old checkout cards for a decade. “It definitely opens a conversation for how it used to be.”…