This is going to be a bit of a shorter post, this week seemed to fly by! I was able to finish sorting the hymnals and cataloging the copies that already have records online, the other ones will be moved over to the cataloging department and they will finish up the rest of them.
One of interesting conundrums I faced while I was working through the hymnals was that there were both print books and musical score records for them. Since I was mostly working with monographs in the collections, I hadn’t come across records where I had to make a choice like this over which record would be more appropraite to sort them into. After some discussion and training, we determined that placing the hymnals we have into the “musical score” section would be the best call.
After finishing up the hymnals, I have started on the next box which contains a number of monographs from the first half of the Twentieth Century. I’ll share some more about that next time.
Stephen Cameron