diff --git a/app/views/catalog/_document.rss.builder b/app/views/catalog/_document.rss.builder
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bf6fc9df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/catalog/_document.rss.builder
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+# TRLN CUSTOMIZATION: add title & responsibility to <title> tag; omit <author>. See:
+# https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/blob/release-8.x/app/views/catalog/_document.rss.builder
+xml.item do
+  xml.title(document.title_and_responsibility)
+  xml.link(polymorphic_url(search_state.url_for_document(document)))
+end
diff --git a/app/views/catalog/_document_default.rss.builder b/app/views/catalog/_document_default.rss.builder
deleted file mode 100644
index fcf29cf0..00000000
--- a/app/views/catalog/_document_default.rss.builder
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-xml.item do
-  xml.title(document.title_and_responsibility)
-  xml.link(polymorphic_url(url_for_document(document)))
-end
diff --git a/app/views/catalog/index.rss.builder b/app/views/catalog/index.rss.builder
index f04ed098..7986cd31 100644
--- a/app/views/catalog/index.rss.builder
+++ b/app/views/catalog/index.rss.builder
@@ -1,16 +1,21 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+# TRLN CUSTOMIZATION: Fix link to catalog. See:
+# https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/blob/release-8.x/app/views/catalog/index.rss.builder
 xml.instruct! :xml, version: '1.0'
 xml.rss(version: '2.0') do
   xml.channel do
-    xml.title(t('blacklight.search.title', application_name: application_name))
+    xml.title(t('blacklight.search.page_title.title', constraints: render_search_to_page_title(params),
+application_name: application_name))
+    # BL core renders <link> with catalog.rss, so we fix it here
+    # xml.link(search_action_url(search_state.to_h.merge(only_path: false)))
     xml.link(search_action_url(params.merge(format: '').to_unsafe_h))
-    xml.description(t('blacklight.search.title', application_name: application_name))
+    xml.description(t('blacklight.search.page_title.title', constraints: render_search_to_page_title(params),
+application_name: application_name))
     xml.language('en-us')
-    @document_list.each_with_index do |document, document_counter|
-      xml << Nokogiri::XML.fragment(
-        render_document_partials(document,
-                                 blacklight_config.view_config(:rss).partials,
+    @response.documents.each_with_index do |document, document_counter|
+      xml << render_xml_partials(document, blacklight_config.view_config(:rss).partials,
                                  document_counter: document_counter)
-      )
     end
   end
 end