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Selected Articles from Current Library Journals 

 
Anhalt, Joy, and Richard A. Stewart. “RDA Simplified.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 

50, no. 1 (2012): 33-42. 
 
Biella, Joan C., and Heidi G. Lerner. “The RDA Test and Hebraica Cataloging: Applying 

RDA in One Cataloging Community.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49, no. 7/8 
(September 2011): 676-695.  

 
Irwin, Ken. “The Homegrown Mobile Catalog: A Quick, Inexpensive Approach to 

Expanding Access.” Technical Services Quarterly 29, no. 1 (2011):  42-57. 
 

*Jacob, W. M. “Parochial Libraries and Their Users.” In “Proceedings of the Library & 
Information History Group Conference, Parochial Libraries: Past, Present & Future, 
April 2010.” Special issue, Library & Information History 27, no. 4 (December 2011): 
211-216.  

 
Marshall, Linnea. “Using Internet Resources to Research Dates of Birth and Death of 

Relatively Obscure Individuals for Inclusion in Name Authority Records.” Cataloging 
& Classification Quarterly 50, no. 1 (2012): 17-32. 

 
Murray, Ronald J., and Barbara Tillet. “Cataloging Theory in Search of Graph Theory and 

Other Ivory Towers.”  Information Technology & Libraries 30, no. 4 (December 2011): 
170-184. 

 
Nagaya, Shun, Yutaka Hayashi, Shuhei Otani and Keizo Itabashi. “Controlled Terms or Free 

Terms? A JavaScript Library to Utilize Subject Headings and Thesauri on the Web.” 
Code4Lib Journal 15 (2011-10-31). http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5994 (accessed 
January 30, 2012) 

 
Panchyshyn, Roman S. “Benefits of Batch Reclamation: The Kent State University Libraries 

Experience.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 50, no. 1 (2012): 3-16. 
 
Schroeder, Rebecca, and Howard, Jared L. “Shelf-Ready: A Cost-benefit Analysis.” Library 

Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 35, no. 4 (2011): 129-134. 
 
Wacker, Melanie, Myung-Ja Han, and Judith Dartt. “Testing Resource Description and Access 

(RDA) with Non-MARC Metadata Standards.” In “RDA Testing: Lessons Learned 
and Challenges Revealed,” eds. Sylvia D. Hall-Ellis and Robert O. Ellett, Jr. Special 
issue, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49, no. 7-8 (2011): 655-675.   

 

*Walsh, John A. “‘Images of God and Friends of God’: The Holy Icon as Document.” 
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63, no. 1 (January 
2012): 185-194.  Also available as pdf online:  
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21646/pdf (accessed January 30, 
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Walsh, Larisa. “The Faceted Catalog as a Tool for Searching Monographic Series: Usability 

Study of Lens.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 50, no. 1 (2012): 43-59. 
 
Yang, Sharon Q., and Melissa A. Hofmann. “Next Generation or Current Generation? A 

Study of the OPACs of 260 Academic Libraries in the USA and Canada.” Library Hi 
Tech 29, no. 2 (May 2011): 266-300. 

 
Young, Philip. “A Survey of Batch Cataloging Practices and Problems.” Technical Services 

Quarterly 29, no. 1 (2011): 22-41.  
 
*These two articles are not related to cataloging but may be of interest because of their 
religious/theological content. 
 
Corrected citations from the last issue of TCB, with apologies: 
 
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Timothy J. Dickey. “Publisher Names in Bibliographic Data: 

An Experimental Authority File and a Prototype Application.” Library Resources & 
Technical Services 55, no. 4 (October 2011): 182-194.  [correction: v. 55, not 53] 

 
DeZelar-Tiedman, Christine. “Exploring User-Contributed Metadata’s Potential to Enhance 

Access to Literary Works: Social Tagging in Academic Library Catalogs.” Library 
Resources & Technical Services 55, no. 4 (October 2011): 221-233.  [correction: v. 55, not 
53] 

 
Gelber, Natalia, and Irina Kandarasheva. “PCC Training for Copy Catalogers: Is It Worth 

the Investment? The Columbia University Libraries Experience.” Library Resources & 
Technical Services 55, no. 3 (July 2011): 163-71.  [correction:  second author added] 

   
Submitted by 
Lynn Berg, Librarian for Technical Services 
New Brunswick Theological Seminary (NJ)