Shab, sheet music collection project, 12/18/2015

Today is my last day volunteering so I finished cataloging the section I was at as well as the first few cards of the Carole King section since those cards were routine and didn't present any challenges.  The only question that came up today concerns the cards for rows 433, 434, and 436.  Normally I put something that says something like "organ solo by [name]" in the note field because there are already other names in the 245 field.  This time, however, I'm wondering if the organ solo credits for those cards should be in the 245 field?  I'm not sure.  For now, I still put those in the note field for those cards (highlighted in red).

Thank you to Jeanette, Cecilia, and everyone else in the tech services department for having me volunteer here for two years.  I learned a lot and really enjoyed working with you all.  Thanks and happy holidays!

Shab, sheet music collection project, 12/11/2015

Today I cataloged 58 more cards of drawer 7 of the sheet music collection project.  Most of it was routine.  The card for row 377 seems to have more than one version of the title in it.  I put one of them in the other title (245) field; please let me know if that's correct.  There were two other cards that seemingly have alternate titles in them (it's a little harder to tell since they're foreign language cards): the cards for rows 410 and 411.  I tried researching them and using Google translate to see if the other titles were the foreign words translated into English but that wasn't the case for the card for row 410.  Still, it does appear to be an alternative title for the piece of music based on what I've learned about it.  I've colored the titles in red if you'd like to take a look and let me know where those titles should go.

The other issue that came up (which I think I've mentioned before) is how a couple of the cards have "musical revues...", etc. not separated by Arabic numerals (1, 2, etc.), like it would if it belongs in the subject field.  (Rows 379 and 392).  Therefore, it's confusing about whether to put that in the instrumentation field as the card would indicate, or the subject field, which is where it would usually go ( normally the cards always have it separated by Arabic numbers at the bottom of the card which indicates to put it into the subject fields).  For now I've included it in the instrumentation fields, highlighted in red.  Please let me know if this should be changed.  Thanks!

Shab, sheet music collection project, 12/4/2015

Today I cataloged 94 more cards of drawer 7 of the sheet music collection project.  Here are the questions I have:

1) The music upstairs needs to be checked for the cards for rows 282-284 - there is a discrepancy in the spelling of the composer's name.

2) For the card for row 287, it says something strange in the 245 field, "words usually ascribed to", which I've never seen before in a statement of responsibility field.  I'm not sure what to make of it so I typed it in exactly as is.  (I thought that if a cataloger is uncertain about a piece of info, it goes in brackets?)

3) For the card for row 291, the title field has the name in lower-case.  I typed it in that way but I'm wondering if it needs to be capitalized since it's a proper noun?

4) The card for row 332 has what appears to be a table of contents for that piece in the title field.  I put it in the contents note (505) for that reason - if it doesn't belong there, please let me know.

Everything else was routine.