(27 Sep 2024) A hundred years ago, in Madras Presidency, there lived a libarian name S R Ranganathan (SRR), who was bored. So Bored that in Jan 1924, just a week after being appointed the first librarian of the University of Madras, he, quit, telling his boss he couldn’t “bear the solitary imprisonment day after…
(25 August 2016) Librarian’s Day 2016 was celebrated on 12th August 2016 to coincide with the 124th birth anniversary of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan, the father of Library Science in India. Along with the Library staff and library professionals, several other invited dignitaries from the Institute participated in this celebration and encouraged the library professionals…
(20 February 2016) On 18th February 2016, NISCAIR organized a Seminar on Philosophy and Teachings of Dr. S R Ranganathan, where the organizer formally released ALIS special issue “Philosophy and Teachings of S R Ranganathan”. ALIS is an open access scholarly journal established by S R Ranganathan in 1954. One of the speakers at this…
The January 2015 newsletter of the HathiTrust Digital Library lists the top ten most accessed volumes from its millions of titles. Among them is The Five Laws of Library Science, by S. R. Ranganathan. Ranganathan is known as the father of library science in India. In the UK too his laws and other works and…
(30 June 2014) A new OCLC Research report suggests how a reordering and a reinterpretation of S. R. Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science can be applied to today’s world. Read the report and attend a special webinar 08 July in which authors Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, and Ixchel Faniel, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist,…