Rani Ghosh Precats 7/28/2014

Today I have completed cataloging 40 titles from Files:

SK 289  - 15 titles
SK 316   - 20 titles
SK 316   -    5 titles.
TOTAL     40 titles

Shab, sheet music collection project, 7/25/2014

Today I managed to catalog 62 more cards of drawer 5 of the sheet music collection project.  No particularly new issues, though I did wonder if the name of a band (as opposed to the name of a person in the responsibility field) should be in the name field but for now, that's where I've put it (please let me know if this is wrong).  The foreign language cards also continue to be challenging in terms of the ones from the Houston Saengerbund Collection - it is difficult to tell if any of the words in the titles should be capitalized or not (some of them often look like names, but this is not something I can run through Google translate).  For now I am treating the titles as I treat the other titles on the cards.  I did find one more name discrepancy that will need to be checked against the hard copy sheet music upstairs, but otherwise, everything else was mostly routine.

Rani Ghosh, Cataloging 7/25/2014

I have cataloged 30 titles of Adult non-fiction.(Sirsi) a1728845

Rani Ghosh, Cataloging, 7/23/2014

Today I cataloged 17  non-fiction titles of File CH 185. I had a question about the call number of "Mad as hell" by David Itzkoff.

Shab, sheet music collection project, 7/18/2014

Today I managed to input the data from 50 more cards of drawer 5 of the sheet music collection project.  I did notice two strange new problems: 1. One of the cards had an entry in the publisher field that was clearly not a publisher (according to my online research of that piece of music); I put it in the publisher field anyway and have highlighted it in yellow (the song is Hike with Ike by Helen Gay).  I'm not sure what else would be in the field though that precedes right before the publication date.  2.  I'm still struggling with the titles as well, the ones that appear to have possibly alternate or some type of series title, such as the cards which are for the religious or processional music or the foreign language cards which are usually part of a series of compositions.  Jeanette, I've also highlighted a couple of these cards' titles in yellow because I used the "other title" fields for them.  If this is incorrect, please let me know and thanks.  

Shab, sheet music collection project, 7/11/2014

Today I cataloged 66 more cards of drawer 5 of the sheet music collection project.  No real issues or anything new.  I did have some more titles separated by slashes and a couple with other titles in parenthesis and when I deemed appropriate, I used the other title field (one was a foreign and English title); Jeanette, please let me know if there are any problems with these fields (or any others) once you have time to review the spreadsheet.  Thanks!