Ruth Kitchin Tillman (Pennsylvania)

Homonyms and Spiders

Cross stitch
Designed and stitched by Ruth Kitchin Tillman / Tweet by Marc in a Cold Climate @marccold (anonymous)

“This tweet spoke deeply to my experience of trying to improve search for the hundreds of millions of records our library makes available. It’s an enormous challenge.”

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Ruth Kitchin Tillman is the cataloging systems and linked data strategist at Pennsylvania State University.

Ruth’s design features a quote from Twitter by MARC in a Cold Climate (@marccold), which says “Keyword search is a cold, dark country, pal, full of homonyms & spiders.”