Today I managed to input the data from 68 more cards of drawer 4 of the sheet music collection project. Challenges this week included more peculiarities with the titles. I think I have the other title problem figured out; however, what is peculiar is that a couple of cards seemed to have what could be more than one title [of a song] in the same field. The reason I'm guessing this is because when I checked the lyrics online for the songs with the questionable titles, there were no lyrics including the words of what appears to be the other title in the song, that is, usually the alternate title is a refrain or a part of the song, which wasn't the case. I have a feeling some of the sheet music may have multiple titles or songs on it so I highlighted it in red and yellow to check with the hard copy music upstairs. Another thing I want to mention: the person who worked on this drawer before me is doing some of the cataloging differently from what I am where it concerns the note and instrumentation fields, that is, some of the content note fields have information that I put in either the general note field or the instrumentation field, etc. I am continuing to do it the way Cecilia has shown me for now; Jeanette, if there are any problems with this, please let me know so I can make any necessary changes. The last very odd thing I noticed is a question mark in the middle of the date on one of the cards. At first I thought it might be a typo, but it appeared twice and the ? key is nowhere near the 9 key, so I think it was on purpose. I don't remember what this means, if anything, according to cataloging standards, so please let me know if something needs to be done about it (for now I typed it in exactly the way it was on the card and highlighted in red).
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