Ruth Elder (Alabama) & Ann Kardos (Massachusetts) #2
What’s in Your Catalog?
Cross stitch
Stitched by Ruth Elder / Collaboratively designed by Ann Kardos & Ruth Elder
Ruth: “This piece shows why it is critical that the people ‘behind the scenes’ input accurate information in the catalog.”
Ann: “When bad information, records or data go into the catalog, it essentially means that the catalog is full of garbage. The resources inside are lost and patrons can’t find them!”
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Ruth Elder is a cataloger at Troy University in Troy, Alabama. This cross stitch is of a silver trash can with the words “Put Garbage In the Catalog? Get Garbage Out!!!” stitched in purple. There are three black dead fish skeletons as a divider. Below are the words “0 SEARCH RESULTS” stitched in green.
Ruth contacted Ann with an interest in the Unseen Labor project but was unable to design a piece within the timeframe. Ruth offered to help in other ways or to stitch other people’s patterns. Ann told Ruth that she had a number of simple ideas, but no way to stitch everything herself. Ann scanned and emailed out some rudimentary patterns, and Ruth turned those patterns into something beautiful.