WORCESTER, Mass. (TND) — While March Madness is sort of per week underway, for a lot of within the metropolis of Worcester, Massachusetts, March Meowness has been the banner occasion of the month.
The occasion is a month-long marketing campaign placed on by the Worcester Public Library that enables residents to reactivate their library playing cards by bringing in images, drawings or journal clippings of cats in trade. This loss in library privileges was usually because of patrons dropping books and media, or returning broken gadgets, after which by no means paying the fines or alternative charges.
Even if you do not have a cat in your life, you’ll be able to nonetheless draw one,” the library’s Executive Director Jason Homer, advised NPR Boston-affiliate WBUR. “Even if it is one of many massive cats, like a tiger or a lion, and we’ll be excited to see these.
According to the New York Times, in simply the primary few days of this system, a whole bunch of e-book returns took place throughout the Worcester library’s seven branches, dozens of images have been uploaded by members to the library’s Facebook web page and a devoted wall in the primary department was flooded with drawings of residents’ feline pals.
Homer went on to clarify that the headline-grabbing occasion impressed by the continued fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and financial downturn round it, as folks misplaced properties and or employment.
We know that lots of people, sadly, by way of being displaced in housing, or life getting in the best way within the world pandemic, misplaced a whole lot of supplies.
March Meowness additionally options month-long programming with cat-focused occasions on crafting, movie screenings, therapeutic engagement and consciousness for the native shelter system.
There are limits to the cats for forgiveness as they should be owned by the Worcester Public Library and misplaced gadgets however have been misplaced for over two months and the waiver of merchandise returns isn’t assured and topic to the library’s discretion.
