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07 Mar, 2024
chương trình trong tháng khuyến khích khách hàng quen của thư viện ở Worcester, Massachusetts, người làm mất, hư hỏng sách hoặc kích hoạt lại tài khoản. Tất cả những gì họ cần là hình ảnh chú mèo
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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 (thẻ thư viện kích hoạt lại).
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 (hư hại) a borrowed item, and then never went back to avoid paying for it.
Like many public libraries in the United States, the libraries in Worcester, a city of about 200,000 people (and their cats) southwest of Boston, are trying to encourage people to re-emerge from the sparse, solitary days of the pandemic (đại dịch). Used as vaccine sites through the coronavirus pandemic, the city’s libraries have returned to become vibrant community spaces, offering crafts, wellness courses, and seminars about avoiding fraud.
The library had previously tried to boost attendance and fee-forgiveness programs with canned food drives. But the cats found their way into the spotlight, as they do. The Meowness program took shape after several months of brainstorming by a library task force that met to come up with a creative way to get people back through the doors.
While the library had previously stopped charging fines for late returns, many people who faced fees for lost items simply stayed away. One woman who had lost library DVDs in 2016 recovered access to her account with a photograph of a cat, Mochi. Patrons have submitted photographs of their cats stretched out (giãn cơ) in a cat tree, ignoring a dog, and peering into (nhìn vào) the camera from a chair or carpet (thảm).
source: nytimes,
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