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