[WEB4LIB] Re: Use of DDC in web displays

[Sharon]

Copyrighting Dewey Decimals is ridiculous!  The man has been dead for years.
Down with subscribing to DDC.  Just use the numbers you always have on your
books!

Sharon

Thomas Dowling wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Kuntz " <jkuntz at ansernet.rcls.org>
>
> > Yesterday I received a very pleasantly written license notice from OCLC
> Forest Press; the stern part, however, noted:
> >
> > "Regarding KidsClick's current use of Dewey, our standard licensing policy
> requires libraries who wish to use the DDC Summaries (the first three levels
> of the DDC, e.g., 500 Science, 510 Mathematics, 513 Arithmetic) on their Web
> site to be current subscribers to an electronic version of the DDC...
>
> Out of curiosity, how much difference is there at the upper levels between
> the DDC of today and earlier editions, which have passed into public domain?
> This sort of attitude seems designed to send would-be web catalogers
> flocking to some such freely accessible starting point to create an
> open-source subject classification.
>
> Thomas Dowling
> Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu

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