Friday, February 27, 2015

Shab, sheet music collection project, 2/27/2015

Today I cataloged 95 more cards of drawer 6 of the sheet music collection project.  I have several issues.  1) Row 399 - I'm not sure all of that belongs in the title field but upon Googling, all the words about it being a March nationale, etc., appear to be part of the title?  I'm not sure.  I'm also not sure where it would go if not the title field (note field?).  I'm also not sure about the French words I put in the note field.  2) Row 463, there appears to be a date in the title field in parenthesis (not the date of the music, which is vastly different and appears where it usually is) - for now I put the date just as it is in the title field and highlighted in red.  Jeanette, please let me know your thoughts on this because I've never seen a date in this field before.  3) Row 464, please check the title and publisher fields.  It's one of the foreign language cards so the information is all over the place and I'm not sure if it's in the correct places and also if the title in the brackets needs to be included on the spreadsheet.  4) Row 407 is another J.C. Penney bicentennial music card.  I'm starting to wonder if this could possibly be a series and as such needs to be included in the series field?  Jeanette, any thoughts on this?  Please let me know.  Thanks for all your feedback!  

Friday, February 13, 2015

Shab, sheet music collection project, 2/13/2015

Today I cataloged 62 more cards of drawer 6 of the sheet music collection project.  Row 368's title field - I'm not sure if Independence Day should be capitalized or not (I assumed yes since it's a proper holiday, Jeanette, please let me know if this is incorrect and needs changing).  Row 349 had a note saying "Includes U. S. marine air corps version."  I'm not sure if marine air corps. needs to be capitalized (it was on the card) or if it belongs in a note field as opposed to some other field but to me it looks like it belongs in the note field and wouldn't need capitalization of those words.  Again, Jeanette, please let me know if this is wrong.  Everything else was mostly routine; per my comment last week, I've started to put the "arranged by" information in the arranger column/field instead of the 245 statement of responsibility field.  Also, the title in row 394 includes words describing the type of music it is "lullaby fox trot" - not sure if this should stay in this field or be moved to the instrumentation or note field.  Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this.  Thanks!

Friday, February 6, 2015

Shab, sheet music collection project, 2/6/2015

Today I cataloged 80 more cards from drawer 6 of the sheet music collection project.  Here are the questions/issues I have this week: 1) one card (row 330) says "composed by xxxx and arranged for orchestra by xxxx".  I'm uncertain if this information belongs in the 245 field (I suspect not, though that is where I put it for now) or should be put in the co-composer and arranger fields instead.  Please let me know.  Similarly, another card (row 287) had a "translated by xxxx" on it.  Again, I'm not sure if this belongs in the 245 field - is there a field for translators of foreign language music?  2) The J.C. Penney bicentennial music cards are coming up again (row 314) so please let me know what you think about that row.  3) Also in row 287 was a peculiar language note which I've put in the languages (546) field for now.  Could you please review it and let me know what you think and if it's done correctly/belongs in the right place.  Thanks!