MOUG 2025 - Lightning Talks - LoPrete ; Hahn ; Knop
From the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Music OCLC Users Group, March 6 & 7, 2025
Eureka! A New Way of Handling Sheet Music
Anna LoPrete, Great American Songbook Foundation
The Great American Songbook Foundation holds almost 35,000 pieces of inventoried sheet music in addition to boxes upon boxes of unprocessed sheet music. While the inventory is good for known item searches as it contains the song title, larger work title, and composers and lyricists, it is not useful for discovery. The sheet music collections support numerous activities, including the Perfect Harmony program and Songbook Academy summer music intensive as well as external users. The music librarian has created a database to house more robust metadata about the inventoried sheet music, including detailed information about the covers and subject analysis. This presentation will demonstrate that database, showing the metadata collected, and discussing use cases for the database.
The Music Periodical Revolutionary
Michelle Hahn, Ohio University
Periodicals often change titles. This separates subsequent titles, changing Cutters and shelf placement when arranged by call number or alphabetically by title. However, descriptive practice has not changed. With a desire to improve browsing and more logically and obviously connect volumes of a periodical regardless of the title under which it was published, I developed a project combining physical relocation, corrective cataloging, finding aid development, visual browsing enhancement, and contribution to the ISSN for international improvement, revolutionizing the way music and dance periodicals are arranged at the Ohio University Music and Dance Library with the help of everyone there. And all without changing a thing in cataloging practice and preserving the sanctity of Interlibrary Loan. I’ll share reasons for the revolution and the method to my madness.
Sins of Migrations Past: Figuring Out What We Broke (Before We Break It Again)
Keith Knop, University of Georgia
As UGA prepares to migrate in July, some of the cleanup work we've done has been of problems dating from three migrations ago. These projects have highlighted an elephant in the room: we used to locally edit physical descriptions for scores/parts when we could not find an exact match in OCLC, but since 2017 we've had nightly overlays from WorldCat that have wiped those edits out, leaving us with mismatches between what we actually have and what our catalog says we have. With no one system providing a good way to identify these records, I’ve resorted to a combination of Alma Analytics, MARCEdit, and Excel to narrow down the list of culprits.