Cataloging options and issues
Monday, June 12th - 3:30-5:00pm
Today Mark and I talked about some cataloging options for that portion of my project. We discovered that most, if not all, of the World War I stuff is in the catalog already. There are some things that could be "cleaned up" but none would be starting from scratch. These would still be a possibility for scanning, but again, most of them are probably already available in other sheet music collections online. It wouldn't be a very original contribution.
He suggested analyzing one of the bound volumes of sheet music classed in M1.A15, starting around volume 35 or so (the earlier volumes have already been done). I thought this sounded quite interesting - I just need to look through the records and choose one that looks interesting and reasonable to do. Not sure about scanning the works in these bound volumes - eventually they would probably be "worth" scanning, but it might not be an immediate priority. Other suggestions included the Post Dispatch stuff and the Bromo Seltzer publications (which would be interesting because of the advertising history component).
I noticed that the Civil War topical boxes have notes on them that say "Has titles in need of records" or something like that. So, another possibility might be to search the titles in these two boxes in the supplementary catalog and create records for those that aren't already included.
Another thing we talked about was the question of whether or not it's "ethical" to use OCLC records if you're not going to add your holdings to WorldCat. I'm not sure about this, it's not something I've ever considered and I don't there is a policy on this. It does seem a little "iffy" to do so... I'll look around on OCLC's site to see what I can find. I have NO sense of how many of these sheet music records would already have records in WorldCat, and I have no sense of how many sheet music collections have holdings in WorldCat. One thing I will be looking at in my project is whether or not having holdings in WorldCat perhaps increases the chance that people will find these sheet music collections (especially with Open WorldCat, in which one can supposedly be linked to library's holdings when one searches a title in one of the major search engines). I'll be interested to see how many of the institutions involved in the Sheet Music Consortium have holdings for their sheet music titles in WorldCat.
I wasn't really thinking that I'd be doing cataloging for OCLC for this project, but I guess it's an option. It's definitely a topic I need to explore more.
(I really didn't take very good notes during our conversation, but I thought I'd be posting this a lot closer to Monday... So, I'm hoping Mark will remind me of anything else really important that he said that I neglected to mention!!)
Hours today: 1.5
Total hours completed: 11.5
Today Mark and I talked about some cataloging options for that portion of my project. We discovered that most, if not all, of the World War I stuff is in the catalog already. There are some things that could be "cleaned up" but none would be starting from scratch. These would still be a possibility for scanning, but again, most of them are probably already available in other sheet music collections online. It wouldn't be a very original contribution.
He suggested analyzing one of the bound volumes of sheet music classed in M1.A15, starting around volume 35 or so (the earlier volumes have already been done). I thought this sounded quite interesting - I just need to look through the records and choose one that looks interesting and reasonable to do. Not sure about scanning the works in these bound volumes - eventually they would probably be "worth" scanning, but it might not be an immediate priority. Other suggestions included the Post Dispatch stuff and the Bromo Seltzer publications (which would be interesting because of the advertising history component).
I noticed that the Civil War topical boxes have notes on them that say "Has titles in need of records" or something like that. So, another possibility might be to search the titles in these two boxes in the supplementary catalog and create records for those that aren't already included.
Another thing we talked about was the question of whether or not it's "ethical" to use OCLC records if you're not going to add your holdings to WorldCat. I'm not sure about this, it's not something I've ever considered and I don't there is a policy on this. It does seem a little "iffy" to do so... I'll look around on OCLC's site to see what I can find. I have NO sense of how many of these sheet music records would already have records in WorldCat, and I have no sense of how many sheet music collections have holdings in WorldCat. One thing I will be looking at in my project is whether or not having holdings in WorldCat perhaps increases the chance that people will find these sheet music collections (especially with Open WorldCat, in which one can supposedly be linked to library's holdings when one searches a title in one of the major search engines). I'll be interested to see how many of the institutions involved in the Sheet Music Consortium have holdings for their sheet music titles in WorldCat.
I wasn't really thinking that I'd be doing cataloging for OCLC for this project, but I guess it's an option. It's definitely a topic I need to explore more.
(I really didn't take very good notes during our conversation, but I thought I'd be posting this a lot closer to Monday... So, I'm hoping Mark will remind me of anything else really important that he said that I neglected to mention!!)
Hours today: 1.5
Total hours completed: 11.5
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