Take a break and get creative. We need your name suggestions for our annual 2026 UMN Libraries “Name a Library cart” contest! We are inspired by the Minnesota Department of Transportation or MnDOT’s “Name a snowplow” contest.

Who will join 2024 winner Dolly Carton and 2025 winner Cart2D2? What names can you come up with? We will gather names, narrow the field, then open up voting in mid-February. Please submit your most witty, unique UMN, Gopher, Minnesota or book-themed ideas to name one of our library carts.

Submissions will be accepted through Monday, February 2nd.

This year’s contest includes a few basic rules:

• Submissions are limited to no more than 30 characters (including letters and spaces).
• Gosh darn it, nothing vulgar please.
• Politically inspired names (including phrases, slogans or plays on politicians’ names) will not be considered. Naming book carts is meant to be fun and lighthearted, so we’re going to keep this contest nonpartisan and nonpolitical.

Finalists and voting will be announced in a few weeks. Follow @umnlib on instagram & @umnlibrarians on TikTok for updates!

Please contact Kate Peterson (katep@umn.edu) with questions.