Alex, thanks for the quick response.
Here’s what I did. It may not be pretty code, as I’m new to this, but it works.
In the nggCreateGallery function, I added:
global $wpdb;
$galleriesOfAlbum = $wpdb->get_results('SELECT * FROM '.$wpdb->nggallery.' WHERE gid ='.$galleryID, OBJECT);
$galleriesOfAlbum = ngg_emulate_objekt_k($galleriesOfAlbum);
$gallerycontent = $galleriesOfAlbum[$galleryID];
near the beginning, and then added:
$out .= '<h3 class="gallerytitle">'.$gallerycontent->title.'</h3>';
to show the title where I wanted it.
If there is a more elegant way to do this, please let me know.