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Case Study:
The staff at a public library in a rural area often found themselves at a loss when students came in over the summer
looking for books on their school reading lists. The public library staff didn't know which books were on the school reading list
and, of course, the kids would forget the lists. Working together on cataloging reading lists: The youth services librarian at the public library contacted the school media specialists and worked out a plan to share the school reading lists. Both groups of librarians worked together to make sure each library had the books on the lists.
Now, that public library had a very clever cataloger (another "accidental cataloger") who decided that it would be a good idea
to add the school reading list information to the public library catalog records. 
Each school reading list was
given a unique name. A local subject heading was then made for that reading list, adding that unique local subject heading
to the record of each book on that list.
Staff and students could now search by school reading list and get all the records for every book on that particular list.
Even better: when a book was damaged or lost, the youth services librarian now knew from the public library catalog record
that this was a reading list book and could make SURE it was replaced right away.
Because the parents and students were so happy with this system, the teachers started sharing more lists with the school media specialists,
who then shared more lists with the public library.
All because of one smart accidental cataloger!
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