October 9, 2002

Ranganathan and Library Science

Boxes and Arrows: Ranganathan for IAs talks about the UberLibrarian, S.R. Ranganathan. He invented the term library science. He invented the Five Laws of Library Science.
The Five Laws of Library Science
The Five Laws are the kernel of all of Ranganathan’s practice. They are:

1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader his or her book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. The Library is a growing organism.

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Albert

Interesting page. You may know that today, somebody invented the five laws of the Web inspired from the original Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science.

Posted by: Albert | October 22, 2004 08:06 AM

Tony

I'll bite.

What are these five laws?

Posted by: Tony [TypeKey Profile Page] | October 22, 2004 08:20 AM

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