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The first law of library science, "Books are for use," constitutes the basis for library services. This law means that books in libraries are not meant to be shut away from users. Ranganathan observed that books were often chained to prevent their removal and that the emphasis was on storage and preservation rather than use. [ 4 ]
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan [1] (listen ⓘ 9 August 1892 – 27 September 1972) was an Indian librarian and mathematician. [2] His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major faceted classification system, the colon classification.
The Punjab Library Primer was the first textbook on library science published in English anywhere in the world. The first textbook in the United States was the Manual of Library Economy by James Duff Brown, published in 1903. Later, the term was used in the title of S. R. Ranganathan's The Five Laws of Library Science, published in 1931, which ...
A library bookshelf in Hong Kong classified using the New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries, an adaptation of the Dewey Classification scheme. The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject.
020 Library and information sciences. 020 Library and information sciences; 021 Library relationships (with archives, information centers, etc.) 022 Administration of physical plant; 023 Personnel management; 024 [Unassigned] 025 Library operations; 026 Libraries for specific subjects; 027 General libraries; 028 Reading and use of other ...
The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. LCC is mainly used by large research and academic libraries , while most public libraries and small academic libraries use the Dewey Decimal ...
Lee Pierce Butler (December 19, 1884 – March 28, 1953) [1] was a professor at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School.He was one of the first to use the term "library science" (along with S. R. Ranganathan), by which he meant the scientific study of books and users, and was a leader in the new social-scientific approach to the field in the 1930s and 1940s.
Michael Gorman (born 6 March 1941) is a British-born librarian, library scholar and writer.During his tenure as president of the American Library Association (ALA), he was vocal in his opinions on a range of subjects, notably technology and education.