The money has been raised from the sale of calendars, which featured the pictures of cats owned by the staff and included Rogers. Rogers, named after movie star Ginger Rogers, arrived at the Library five years ago as an abandoned wild kitten and was adopted by the security staff. After a rigorous training programme Rogers has turned from a wild kitten into a robust member of the security team, known affectionately as Securicat, he has recently been joined by a feline companion Ollie. Staff at the British Library were asked to contribute pictures of their cats for the calendar and to donate food which was distributed to the York branch of Cats Protection. The collection included ten boxes of biscuits, five large bags of biscuits and two hundred tins of cat food.
Plans are apaw to get next year's calendar into production.
We are very grateful to the staff at the British Library for their hard work, generosity and concern. Two hundred cat calendars were sold at a cost of 3.50. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest research libraries. The Library's collection has developed over 250 years and exceeds 150 million separate items representing every age of written civilisation. Key users of the Library's collections and services are independent researchers and people working in the library and information science sector.