About WebDewey user comments
Find an overview of user comments in WebDewey.
Why create user comments?
- Comments attached to DDC records provide quick access to guidelines that reflect local classification practices.
- Personal comments help individual catalogers classify similar items consistently over time.
- Institution comments promote consistent classification by multiple catalogers with varied specialties and experience.
- Comments preserve decisions about classification, saving time by avoiding duplication of intellectual effort.
Personal user comments
- Available with a single license or site license for WebDewey.
- Personal comments are associated with the authorization number of the user who creates the comments.
- Only the individual who creates a comment can retrieve it from the comments database or view the comment from a DDC record. Personal comments are not shared with other users at an institution.
Institution user comments
- Available with a site license for WebDewey.
- Institution comments are associated with the library's OCLC institution symbol.
- Institution comments are shared with all users at the same institution. Any user can retrieve comments from the comments database or view comments associated with a DDC record.
Public user comments
- Available to all WebDewey users.
User comments storage
- Comments reside on the WebDewey server.
- For an institution with a site license, the comments database contains both institution comments (shared by all users from that institution) and personal comments (available only to the user who creates the comment).