Library celebrates ‘Camas Love’ with new card

September is library card sign-up month and the Camas Public Library’s new library card design is celebrating all things Camas.

Designed by 2020 Camas High School graduate Hailee Parman, the new library card design boasts bold colors, flowers, bees, the words “Camas Library Love” and, of course, an open book.

The design is reminiscent of the cheerful “Camas Love” mural on the Wintzer Acupuncture building at the corner of Northeast Fifth Avenue and Northeast Cedar Street in downtown Camas, which Parman designed and painted in 2019 and 2020 for her high school senior project.

The daughter of Aaron and Nicole Parman, who grew up in Camas with her younger sister, Maya, Hailee told The Post-Record in 2020, that she has always considered herself artistic.

“I grew up doing everything creative,” Hailee, a recent Boise State University graduate, said in 2020. “I’ve been taking art classes since I was really little.”

Camas library staff will continue to promote the new library card design throughout the month of September.

The library’s outreach librarian, Elliot Stapleton, will host and perform, “The Case of the Missing Library Card,” a puppet show touting library card sign-ups, during the library’s Preschool Puppet Party at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30, inside the library, which is located at N.E. Fourth Ave., in downtown Camas.

Library staff also plan to attend back-to-school nights at local Camas elementary schools and will bring the library’s “book bike” to the Camas Farmer’s Market on Wednesday, Sept. 18, to help register farmer’s market visitors interested in signing up for a library card.

The farmer’s market, located in downtown Camas on Northeast Fourth Avenue, between Northeast Everett and Northeast Franklin streets, will be open from 3 to 7 p.m. each Wednesday through Oct. 2.

Camas Library Director Connie Urquhart said every person who registers for a new library card during the month of September will receive a “special sticker that will look great on their water bottle or other favorite personal item.”

To learn more about the new library cards, watch a YouTube video Stapleton made to celebrate library card sign-up month, at youtube.com/watch?v=S8XotHpbtw0