[Web4lib] Build the Open Shelves Classification
Tim Spalding
tim at librarything.com
Wed Jul 16 17:31:15 EDT 2008
Well, this is all a matter of degree, but if you aren't an OCLC
member, you pay $315 a year for one staff member, $1,025 for ten—per
year, every year for web access. I don't think that's trivial.
Tim
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Roy Tennant <tennantr at oclc.org> wrote:
> On 7/16/08 7/16/08 € 1:08 PM, "Dan Lester" <dan at riverofdata.com> wrote:
>
>> Not defending DDC, but it isn't really expensive either.
>
> Well, OK, then I'll defend it. Small libraries can get the web version of
> Dewey for cataloging online for about the same price as a single book from
> just about any library book publisher. You may not like the Dewey Decimal
> Classification for other reasons, but price should not be one of them. See
> http://www.oclc.org/dewey/ordering/ for the details.
> Roy
> OCLC
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