Today I managed to input 53 more cards of drawer 4 of the sheet music collection project. Progress was considerably slower this week due to several challenges: more foreign language music that required some Googling to make certain I wasn't putting any information in the wrong fields, as well as some new problems. One card had no date or anything in the date field so I wasn't sure if I should leave it blank or put "n.d." (which is what I ended up doing). Another card had the title "Sir" in the name field (like Sir Edmund Hillary). I remember from library school that titles and designations like Mister, Junior, Senior, etc. are not supposed to be cataloged but I wasn't sure if this qualified or not (Jeanette, if you want to check, I highlighted this word in red for you on the spreadsheet). Some of the publisher fields have some descriptive information in the field ("exclusive agent for", etc.) and I'm not entirely sure where, if anywhere, it belongs on the spreadsheet. For now I'm cataloging all that information exactly as I see it on the card. And I had one instance this week of an English and a foreign language title so wasn't sure if the foreign language title qualifies as an alternate title to be put in the other title field, but that's what I have done for now. Jeanette, please let me know if this is correct.
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