With his drum in hand, iconic cheerleader Krazy George Henderson popped up at Tuesday’s San Jose City Council meeting to lead the city’s esteemed leaders and everyone else gathered in the hallowed chambers in The Wave, the sports stadium tradition he invented more than 40 years ago.
The stunt — done for the first time at a San Jose council meeting — wasn’t to boost up morale on the council or celebrate the passage of a new ordinance but to help the San Jose Public Library “wave goodbye” to fees on late materials.
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“Now, you can use those library cards without fear of accruing late fees,” said San Jose City Librarian Jill Bourne, who was also there for a proclamation of National Library Card Sign-Up Month.
Bourne said San Jose Public Library officials aren’t worried about books disappearing from their shelves, never to reappear. If borrowed items aren’t returned — and 7.6 million items were checked out systemwide last year by the library’s 762,169 members — they’ll eventually be listed as missing on the borrower’s account, and that will need to be cleared before anything else can be checked out.
That can be taken care of by returning the late book, paying a replacement fee, replacing it with a new book, “reading down” the fine through a reading program or even putting in some volunteer honors.
Overdue fines were eliminated on youth accounts a few years ago to great success. The San Jose Public Library’s “Fine-Free Wave Tour” is rolling on this month and next month at all 25 library locations.
TEACHER’S AIDES: This past Sunday may have been the best day that Esther Bono has had in a while. The Trace Elementary teacher’s South San Jose home was badly damaged in a brush fire in late August, and then that night, burglars pawed through the house’s remains to steal jewelry and anything else they could …read more
Source:: The Mercury News – Entertainment
