Seattlites put their brains to good use

At a volunteer event today, I was chatting with a woman who mentioned she was trying to learn French. I told her about the Seattle Public Library's free online language classes. She thought it sounded very cool. When I said that all you need to access the program is your library card number and PIN, she proceeded to quote her 16-digit library card number from memory. Numeric literacy should not be underestimated - impressive!