In his comment on my last post about a Japanese train company which turned its fortune around by appointing a cat as the station master, my co-blogger Dean informed me that US libraries have for long known the advantages of employing feline friends to add pizazz to their premises.
Dean is notorious for burying nuggets of interesting and important pieces of information in the comments section of the blog rather than showcasing them in posts. (Dean, what can we do to bring you out to the main page?) So I am taking the liberty of bringing the story to the front for our readers’ enjoyment. Note that the California cat Flyer was once our own Dean’s colleague in a Whittier public library.
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I know, Ruchira. I have to get with the medium here. By the way, I remembered after posting the comment that Flyer was also the subject of a film about library cats made by a Japanese firm. Through the Iron Frog with the details about Flyer the company identified a number of library cats, and prepared the video…for its Japanese audience. I can’t find information about the video just now, but I did stumble across this recent eulogy at Wesleyan.
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Since I remembered from my childhood a librarian’s poodle Champ that used to quietly go around the school library and wait for a few pats before moving on to the next person at the bookshelf, I wondered if there was something such as a library dog. Sure enough, there are these. Even my local library has a special kids program where they are allowed to read to and interact with specially trained dogs- my daughter had a wonderful time in that session.
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