SUSAN LOESCH
CATS IN THE STACKS
I’ve always thought of January and February as the draggy, dull months in the school year. Alex assures me that isn’t so, at least for him.
Last week, our secondary social studies students staged a history parade, complete with costumes, signs and drums. Alex had to go out and see what was happening in the hall, and he had his picture taken with the group.
One student in the parade was our exchange student from Turkey. (more…)
BY SUSAN LOESCH
CATS IN THE STACKS
Here we are again – Registration Day at Arkansas School for the Blind. For the 35th time I am going to be greeting students…and for the first time in many years I do not have our wonderful Library Cat, Big Footsie, here with me on Registration Day. We lost our big fella over the summer to heart disease and renal failure. I am not alone here today; with me is Alex, Big Footsie’s main Assistant Library Cat, but everything feels different. (more…)
Susan Loesch has been the librarian at the Arkansas School for the Blind for 35 years and is on the board of Feline Rescue and Rehome. She started the library cat program about 10 years ago after much animal therapy research.
