Dewey Readmore Books
Dewey Readmore Books (November 1987 - November 29, 2006 ) was the library hangover at the Spencer City Library, Iowa .
Life
On the night of January 18, 1988, about eight weeks old was Kitten by an unknown person by the flap of Buchrückgabebox the public library squeezed by Spencer. In the morning, library staff found the animal damaged by the cold, but still alive among the returned books, and took care of it. The director Vicki Myron convinced the library board to keep the little red tabby cat as a library cat. Soon after, the first article about the animal appeared in the Spencer Daily Reporter and 397 people entered a final name selection competition for the animal provisionally called “Dewey”, a very high rate compared to the usual number of entries in library competitions. The name "Dewey" (after the Dewey decimal classification developed by Melvil Dewey in 1873 and customary in American libraries ) prevailed and was supplemented by the additional names "Readmore" after the cartoon character OG Readmore and "Books" to differentiate this figure . In addition, the name is a play on words ("read more books" = "read more books").
In the following years Dewey became known through numerous press and television reports. Among other things, a Japanese television team traveled to Iowa in 2003 to film Dewey. Since the summer of 2004, the library's homepage has received numerous hits from Japan; 150,000 clicks within three years were registered.
Vicki Myron wrote two adult and several children's books about the tomcat, who spent most of his life in the Spencer library. In October 2006, at a meeting of the library board, it was discussed whether the aged animal, which is now supposed to have damaged the library's image, should be abolished or euthanized, but this was not carried out. But at the end of November 2006 a vet diagnosed an aggressive stomach tumor in the 19 year old male. Dewey was euthanized, cremated, and later buried near the library. His grave was later provided with a plaque with the inscription "In Loving Memory of Dewey Readmore Books: World Famous Library Cat". In the library, a bronze sculpture by Heather Beary commemorates the cat.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spencerlibrary ( Memento of the original of July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Vicki Myron, Dewey and me. The true story of the world's most famous cat , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-46945-1 , p. 14
- ↑ Myron 2011, p. 26
- ↑ Myron 2011, p. 29
- ↑ Myron 2011, p. 41
- ↑ Myron 2011, p. 42
- ↑ Myron 2011, pp. 302 ff.
- ↑ Myron 2011, p. 309
- ^ Dewey Readmore Books
- ↑ Myron 2011, p. 346
- ↑ Myron 2011, p. 358
- ↑ Myron 2011, p. 366 f.
- ↑ Purr-n-fur
