Hi, it’s me again. Chobe, your favorite feline blogger.
Recently, my human did a cool thing, along with some other humans. She made a cat quilt!
My human tells me this cat quilt is extra special because it’s for something called a “fundraiser,” specifically for the Christopher Hoy/ERT Scholarship Fund, which awards a $5,000 scholarship each year to an MLS student. Humans attending the American Library Association annual conference in Chicago can bid on it in a silent auction.
Which is really nice. Because doesn’t everyone want a cat quilt?
But my human tells me that this is an extra special cat quilt because it’s called “a world of cats” quilt. I guess that’s because it’s a lot of cats, but she says, no. It’s a pun (what’s that?) on OCLC’s WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive database of information about library collections. She says part of the pun is the quilt stitching that holds the quilt together—it looks like globes!
Eighteen current and retired OCLC employees worked together to make the quilt. Each human was able to dig into their own fabric “stash” to make the 6″ quilt blocks, which were then assembled into the colorful quilt.
Apparently, working together (or as my human calls it, “collaboration“), is something that humans who call themselves librarians do really well. And something my human says that OCLC can help with.
Anyway, if you’re attending the ALA conference in Chicago later this week, look for the quilt auction—and take this cat quilt home!
Postscript: The World of Cats quilt sold for $775 in the silent auction, which overall raised $7,385 to support the the Christopher Hoy/ERT Scholarship Fund. Way to go, humans!
Thanks to my human co-worker, Senior Program Officer Rebecca Bryant, for her assistance with this post.