Common Card Test Run @ New York City's Public Libraries

Libraries Explore Shuffle on Cards.  (Wall Street Journal, 5/31/2012)

Excerpt: Library officials described the common card for students as a first step toward integrated customer service for readers across the city—a move they believe would boost library use by making it easier to find and check out books. "The idea is that every New Yorker should be able to have access to the material in all of our libraries," said Linda Johnson, president of the Brooklyn Public Library. "If you live in Brooklyn but you find yourself in Manhattan, you can go to the library there and vice versa. It doesn't matter where you live and where you go to school, you can go to the library." 

The libraries were founded in the 1800s, before Brooklyn and Queens became part of New York City. The New York Public Library serves Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island.\\