Shab, sheet music collection project, drawers 4 and 5

Today I managed to finish cataloging the remainder of drawer 4 of the sheet music collection project and also began drawer 5 of the same project.  Just some notes I want to mention; I reviewed the spreadsheet after I finished drawer 4 and Jeanette, there are several instances where (per our discussion), the content notes contain information I normally put in the instrumentation field (the fields at the beginning of the spreadsheet).  This must have been how the previous cataloger was doing it (highlighted in yellow).  I moved some of the information to the instrumentation field but it will take a long time to go through the entire spreadsheet to do it all as well as look at the cards involved so I didn't bother to go back and change every instance of it (only the ones where it only required cutting and pasting from the contents notes field to the instrumentation field).

The other thing I want to mention is the subject headings.  In the subject headings prior to my working on drawer 4, there are fields which just have, for instance, a "t" in them (because some of the cards will say something like "I. t" in the lower bottom where the subject headings are usually listed).  When Cecilia trained me to do the subject headings, she told me to ignore anything that was preceded with Roman numerals (I., II., etc.) and only catalog those headings with the regular, Arabic numbers (1., 2., etc.)  So unless there's a heading fitting those rules, I don't put it on the spreadsheet (unlike the person before me who cataloged the ones with a Roman numeral in front, and so put the "t" in the subject headings on the sheet).  I'm going to assume this is the correct way to do it?  So please let me know if it's not because this is how I've been doing it all along and the way Cecilia agreed it should be done.  Thanks for all your help and feedback today!  

Shab, sheet music collection project, 6/13/2014

Today I managed to catalog 91 more cards of the sheet music collection project's drawer 4.  Progress was quicker due to fewer issues, though there were some such as information I've never seen before on the cards about the type of edition it is.  One card had some information on it about the music being copyright in a particular place; I didn't know if this is something that ought to be mentioned on the card somewhere so I've made a note about it in the "your notes, comments" field of entry on the spreadsheet.  There were some other minor issues, more titles being separated by forward slashes and more foreign language card ambiguity, but otherwise everything was mostly routine.  I should have this drawer finished next week (about 20 cards are remaining?) and move on to the next drawer by then.  

Shab, sheet music collection project, 6/6/2014

Today I managed to input the data from 64 more cards of drawer 4 of the sheet music collection project and am nearing the end of this drawer (I anticipate finishing it in another 2 weeks).  Nothing particularly new that I have not mentioned before came up, although the foreign language cards do tend to have more and more random information all over them.  I'm not sure where, if anywhere, to catalog the information about how many scores there are and other such random information (I've highlighted the relevant cards in red to be reviewed).  There's another card I marked with a yellow post-it note because it seems to have more than one title on it?  I'm not sure.  This one may need to be looked at upstairs because the way the information is written on the cards sometimes is very unclear.  (Jeanette, it's the card with the post-it note taped over the top side if you want to look at it).  Otherwise, most everything was routine.  I've found that OpenLibrary's website is a huge help when trying to figure out if a particular name is a composer, publisher, someone else because they have a search function for publishers, including those for foreign titles (Googling often leads to nowhere because the names of foreign publishers are often too common to track down with Google).