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I'm a former professional librarian. Left the field in 1985, but have never heard of anyone anywhere paying for use of the dewey decimal system. OCLC services i
by johncla99 3y ago
I'm a former professional librarian. Left the field in 1985, but have never heard of anyone anywhere paying for use of the dewey decimal system. OCLC services is a different issue. You're paying for their provision of cataloging for your collection.
- JohnFen 3y agoHere's one instance where they sued over this in the early 2000's. https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2128&context=law-faculty-publications https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article... The issue was with a hotel that numbered their rooms according to the Dewey Decimal System.