"The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of library metadata, volume 12, issue 2-3 (2012)."--Page vii
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Shawne D. Miska -- Authority control for scientific data: the case of molecular biology / Shuheng Wu, Besiki Stvilia, and Dong Joon Lee -- The intersection of standards and professional knowledge, skills, and service: one road to ensuring a functional future of bibliographic control for serials acquisition, management, and access / Nadine P. Ellero and Dean E. Cody -- Could the functional future of bibliographic control change cataloging work? An exploration using Abbott / Gretchen L. Hoffmann -- The ship has sailed and we aren't on it: how catalogers could support user tasks and why we won't / Mary Z. Rose -- Subject access: conceptual models, functional requirements, and empirical data / Oksana L. Zavalina -- Reconsidering universal bibliographic control in light of the semantic web / Gordon Dunshire, Diane Hillman, and Jon Phipps -- Serials, FRBR, and library linked data: a way forward / Laura Krier -- Effective learning and teaching of RDA: applying adult learning theory / Naomi Kietzke Young -- Charting a course with NOMAP: integrating metadata workflows into a traditional cataloging unit / Teressa M. Keenan -- Preliminary training for RDA: a survey of cataloging department heads / Elyssa M. Sanner -- "Mind the [trans-Atlantic] gap, please": awareness and training needs of UK catalogers / Anne Welsh, Celine Karty, and Helen Williams -- Inadvertent RDA: new catalogers' errors in AACR2 / Jean Harden -- What language death and language planning tell us about MARC and RDA / Sarah Theimer -- The possibility of the infinite library: exploring the conceptual boundaries of works and texts of bibliographic description / Stacy Allison-Cassin
