Friday, May 23, 2014

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!

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