Friday, November 21, 2014

Shab, sheet music collection project, 11/21/2014

Today I cataloged 90 cards of drawer 5 of the sheet music collection project.  I have had another couple of cards which say something like "from the J. C. Penney bicentennial celebration, check card such and such."  I remember cataloging the card that it's cross referencing to so all I'm doing is inputting whatever information is on these complementary cards; I hope that's correct (they're highlighted in red, rows 1031 and 1034).  I may also have to add a 547(?) language column next time as I am seeing more and more of the foreign language cards now have notes about the languages the music is in (for now they're in the note field; I'll make another column for them).  Otherwise, there weren't any concerns except I am wondering if descriptions of titles (like row 1086) where it describes what that music is, like "an original theme...", etc. should be in another field?  Maybe the note field?  Jeanette, please let me know if you have any thoughts on this.

Friday, November 14, 2014

Shab, sheet music collection project, 11/14/2014

Today I cataloged 80 more cards of drawer 5 of the sheet music collection project.  Nothing particularly new came up except for an odd thing on the cards in rows 924-925 - it just says "composers'" before the publication date (highlighted in red).  Another issue is if a card mentions what languages the music is in (row 990) and I'm not sure where that information goes (for now I have put it in the note field, Jeanette, please let me know what you think about this).  Also, it is okay to include multiple notes in the note field?  The card for row 929 included two notes in it.  

Friday, November 7, 2014

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

Today I cataloged 60 more cards of drawer 5's sheet music collection project.  No particularly major problems, though I am wondering more and more about some of the titles in the more complex foreign language and multiple song pieces of music - Jeanette, please let me know what you think because I do find occasional strange things in the title fields of some cards.  I'm wondering if "op. __ and no. __" still go in the title field or not, for example.  I've highlighted row 905 in red to be reviewed.  The other thing I wondered is if the "date illegible [18--]" would be included in the date field on the spreadsheet or should be in a note field (I mean just the "date illegible" part; I assume the [18--] would still go in the date field).  Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this as well.  Thanks!