Shab, sheet music collection project, 5/30/2014

Today I managed to input the data from 57 more cards of drawer 4 of the sheet music collection project.  Most everything was routine, though there are still occasional instances of cards where there's odd information in odd places.  The foreign language cards continue to be a challenge and one of them had so much random information on it everywhere, I've highlighted those fields in red to be looked at if necessary.  Jeanette, please let me know if there are any problems on mistakes on the latest cards next week.  Thanks!

Shab, sheet music collection project, 5/23/2014

Today I managed to input data from 64 more cards of drawer 4 for the sheet music collection project.  Most everything was routine.  I have noticed another couple of name-spelling discrepancies (highlighted in red and yellow) which will need to be checked against the hard copy sheet music upstairs.  The only other major problem was a card which had information, much of it in brackets, all over the place.  Most of it was easy to catalog; however, there was one unusual new problem.  This card had the words "caption title" on it.  Never having come across that phrase before, I looked it up.  The Oxford Reference Dictionary online defines it as "Title above a chapter, section, article, or the title beginning a work without a title-page; also used for a description beneath an illustration." http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110810104542337)  Being that this card has the title in regular format and also in brackets, my assumption is the title itself is a caption title, that is, a title that is the specific title for that section of the sheet music?  Looking up "caption title" in the OCLC website (

http://oclc.org/bibformats/en/2xx/246.html) shows that caption titles are a type of variant title.  Therefore, I wonder if the title of this piece of music should actually be in the "other title" field on the spreadsheet as well (the regular formatted title in the title field, and the bracketed title in the "other title" field?)  For now, I've highlighted the questionable fields in red for that card.  Jeanette, please let me know if you have any thoughts on this and/or you'd like me to make any changes on the spreadsheet.  Thanks!

Shab, sheet music collection project, 5/16/2014

Today I managed to input information from 58 more cards of drawer 4 of the sheet music collection project.  No particularly new problems except the foreign language cards continue to be a challenge since Google Translate often doesn't understand what the text on the cards is.  I have to use some logic and guesswork to input the information on one of the German or French language cards which Google did not help translating as much as I would've liked.  The other strange issues continue to be related to multiple titles separated by slashes and other odd entries in unusual fields on the cards, such as a card that said "[after]", followed by the composer's last name.  Neither Jeanette nor I knew what to make of it.  Another card had two different numbers in the pages field, one of them in brackets (Jeanette thought maybe the sheet music had an extra page that wasn't designated by a page number?)  The problem fields have been highlighted in red.  Otherwise, everything was routine.  

Shab, sheet music collection project, 5/9/2014

Today I managed to catalog 80 more cards of drawer 4 of the sheet music collection project - progress was much faster today because most of the cards were routine, except for a foreign language card which required a little research.  I only have two particular issues today, 1) did we ever figure out what "n.p." on the cards means?  Jeanette, I think you said it means unpaged?  If so, does it need to be input anywhere on the spreadsheet because I saw it on a card again today, and 2) there will be a great deal of highlighting and some names highlighted in red because there are so many spelling discrepancies for those names (including someone correcting some, but not all the spellings in handwriting).  I think it's best to avoid Googling and guessing and just check the sheet music upstairs to see how the names are spelled.  Therefore, I've highlighted and marked red all the appearances of those particular names on the spreadsheet.  Otherwise, I can't think of anything else that needs any attention this week.  I also needed to put in an alternate title that was not mentioned on a particular card but I already checked with Jeanette and she's fine with this.  However, the issue of multiple titles on cards is becoming more prevalent.  

Shab, sheet music collection project, 5/2/2014

Today I managed to catalog 73 more cards of drawer 3 of the sheet music collection project.  Given Jeanette and my discussion today, the only odd thing I found was a couple or so cards which had multiple titles (and multiple authors/composers) on one card, making me think there are some pieces of music which are collections of more than one song/piece of music.  I wasn't sure what to do about this; for now, I've typed it all into the title field, but I imagine that's not correct.  I've highlighted the fields in red and yellow in case the sheet music upstairs also needs to be checked, so please let me know what you think.  Otherwise, most everything was routine.  I did have another entry where it says "Series" and then the title (I think I've mentioned this in a blog entry before?)  I put it into the series field but like before, I'm not sure if it goes there or should be in the uniform title field, since technically, a series title is a uniform title of everything in that series, isn't it?  I'm not sure.  Please let me know your thoughts on this as well, if you have any.