SUSAN LOESCH
CATS IN THE STACKS

What a busy few days we have had, with the final Acelerated Reader rally coming up and students reading to reach their goals so that they can go on their reward field trips. I have been busy taking the last few reading poster pictures and creating the posters.

Friday, Hexie was here for her photo shoot. She posed gracefully every time she was asked and then busied herself offering to be held and checking on the students as they worked.

“I love her feet, one student said. She has the skinniest feet of all the library cats.” (more…)

SUSAN LOESCH
CATS IN THE STACKS

It is time for one of our year-end traditions, Accelerated Reader reading posters — which have turned the library into a photography studio!

Every year Big Footsie picked books in the AR program to become “Footsie’s Favorites.” For each of these that a student reads and passes the quiz on, their name goes on a paper cat that goes on the wall and they get a prize from Footsie. By this time of year the wall is pretty impressive, with colored cats stretching all the way back into the stacks. Footsie always liked to get up on the shelf and check them out.

We talked a little this year about whether, without Footsie, we should continue to call the books Footsie’s Favorites, and we decided that we would keep the name. (more…)

SUSAN LOESCH
CATS IN THE STACKS

OK, Library Cat Staff. We need to have a meeting!

The staff members have been really bad about disappearing into thin air about the time I am ready to stash one of them in a carrier and head to work. Last week’s work schedule fell totally apart, and the cat on duty was whoever wasn’t hidden well enough.

This is quite a change from when I’d call, “Let’s go to school, Big Footsie,” and he would come running and dive-bomb into the carrier. Alex sometimes made me look for him, but he was usually somewhere in plain sight. My current staff needs to improve! (more…)