Wise Community settings
Wise Community
Customers can create their own profiles to share information about book titles, movie titles, audio titles with other library users across the country.
The condition is that the customer's membership allows the use of Wise Community and the customer has no outstanding financial obligations.
Wise Community features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Profile | Create a profile, change your nickname, personal settings, and avatar. For more information, see Wise Community profile. |
| Rating |
Provide a rating in stars for titles (1-5 stars). The average number can be seen in each participating library system. For more information, see Title reviews and ratings. |
| Reviews | Leave a review to let others know what you think of a title. Reviews can be seen at each participating library. For more information, see Title reviews and ratings. |
| Tags | Give a title its own tag. A tag is a label (e.g. a subject) that allows you to easily find all titles with the same tag later on. All tags can be seen in any participating library. The maximum size of a tag is 80 characters. For more information, see Tags. |
| Lists | Create your own title lists, either for your own use or publicly. |
System Settings
Certain features require activation before they can be configured. Please contact OCLC Support to make changes to your Wise Community settings.
Wise Community data model
Each OCLC Wise system exchanges data with OCLC's Wise4all server. This is where all Wise Community data is stored. It also matches titles from the various Wise library systems.
Syncing new titles with the Wise4all server
New titles are synchronized to the Wise4all for each Wise system daily, except on Saturdays. If a title is entered into Wise before 5 p.m., it will be available for use in Wise Community the next day.
The first library to submit a title for synchronization is the “owner” of the title in Wise4all.
Statistics
On the OCLC Wise service page, you can query the usage of Wise Community by organization using the “Statistics cWise” button. The overview is chronological by month. The 'Borrowers' and 'Reviews' columns allow you to click through to details.