Finally, there is something cats can do for humans.
The Worcester Public Library in Worcester, Mass., announced that through the end of March, people who have lost or damaged a book or other borrowed items can bring a photograph, drawing, or magazine clipping of a cat, and get their library cards reactivated.
The library calls the program March Meowness, a way for the system of seven branches to forgive (or is that fur-give?)
members of the community who misplaced a book or damaged a borrowed item, and then never went back to avoid paying for it.
In just a few days, the program has already generated hundreds of returns, multiple postings of random cat photographs on the library’s Facebook page, and photographs and drawings pinned on a growing “cat wall” in the main building.
Persons:
WBUR, Jason Homer, ”
Organizations:
Worcester Public Library, NPR
Locations:
Worcester