The Rolling Hills Library and St. Joseph Public Library will celebrate National Library Week with a redesigning contest. 

National Library Week 2017 is April 9th through the 15th. St. Joseph Public Library Community Services and Promotions Coordinator Crystal Stuck said the contest is a combined effort between the two library systems. 

“All the books… in the public domain, sometimes when you order those books now they come with very generic, sometimes very boring book covers,” Stuck said. “So we thought this would be a fun way to do an in-house contest to come up with some really creative ways to market some of our in-house public domain titles.” 

Participants can submit their cover designs until March 22nd. Each library branch will have a winner that moves on to the overall final contest. There will be a public choice award and a staff pick award, both of which will be announced at a reception on April 12th. 

“We’re going to have the winning submissions turned into posters and we’ll hang those up in our libraries,” Stuck said. “Also the winning submissions will be used on some bookmarks in-house, so we’re going to promote their winning submission in that way. There’s also a $50 gift card for the grand prize and $25 gift card for the staff pick winner.” 

Submission forms and a list of books in public domain available for the redesign contest are available at both library branches. 

For more information, contact Crystal Stuck at the St. Joseph Public Library at (816) 236-2136 or Holly Hutchinson at the Rolling Hills Library at (816) 232-5479.