Excerpt: You didn't need to be a library science student to guess when the giant counter at San Jose's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library would hit 100 million, but apparently it helped.
Joel Eanes, a San Jose State University student working on his master's degree in library and information science, was announced Tuesday afternoon as the winner of the contest, which had 629 entries.
The time and date Eanes entered was just a minute off the actual moment the counter — which tracks all materials checked out systemwide since the joint SJSU-city library opened Aug. 1, 2003 — hit its milestone.
Eanes picked May 11 at 8:18 p.m. and the numbers changed at 8:19 p.m.
What was his secret? He tracked the change in numbers for 15 consecutive days and based his guess on that.
His prize included a bag with a book collection of stories from "New York" magazine, a book journal, chocolate wafers and hot chocolate.
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