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 (
Friday, May 23, 2014
Shab, sheet music collection project, 5/23/2014
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