Online Ticketed-Passes

摘要

Last year a library program received coverage from The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the magazines Mental Floss and Travel+Leisure, many local newspapers and TV outlets, online and trade publications like Curbed, Thrillist, and Artforum, and more. That program is New York’s Culture Pass, a joint program of the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Libraries. Culture Pass is an online ticketed-pass program providing access to area museums, gardens, performances, and other attractions. As the New York Daily News wrote in their lede: “It’s hard to believe nobody thought of it sooner: A New York City library card can now get you into 33 museums free.” Libraries had thought of it sooner, of course. Museum pass programs in libraries began at least as early as 1995 at Boston Public Library and the online ticketed model in 2011 at Contra Costa (CA) County Library. The library profession has paid this “mid-tech” program too little attention, I think, but that may be starting to change.