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Associations and their location

SR.NO.

LIBRARY

LOCATION

1

Asiatic Society Library

Bombay and Kolkata

2

British Museum

UK

3

Connemara Public Library

Chennai

4

Khudabaksha Oriental Library

Patna

5

Library of Congress

USA

6

National Science Library

Delhi

7

National Library

Calcutta

8

National Manuscripts Library

Allahabad

9

National Library for Blinds and Handicaps

Dehradun

10

National Library of Oriental Literature and Culture

Patna

11

National Diet Library

Japan

12

Raja Ram mohan Roay Library

Calcutta

13

Sarswati Mahal Library

Tanjore

14

State Lenin Library

Russia

15

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Arabic and Persian Research Institute

Tonk

16

Salar Jung Museum and Library,

Hyderabad

17

Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

Pune

18

Central Institute of Buddhist Studies

Leha

19

Government Manuscript Library

Allahabad

20

Architect of Public Library Movement in India

Iyyanki Venkata Ramanayya

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

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ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

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ย 

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ย 

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LIBRARY LEGISLATION AND YEAR OF ENACTING

SR.NO.

LIBRARY

Year

1

Andhara Pradesh Public Library Act (Second)

1960

2

Arunchal Pradesh Public Library Act

2009

3

Bihar Public Library Act

2007

4

Chattisgarh Public Library Act

2007

5

Goa Public Library Act

1993

6

Gujrat Public Library Act

2001

7

Haryana Public Library Act

1989

8

Karnataka (Mysore) Public Library Act (Third)

1965

9

Kerala Public Library Act

1989

10

Maharashtra Public Library Act (Fourth)

1967

11

Manipur Public Library Act

1988

12

Mizorum Public Library Act

1993

13

Madras (Tamil Nadu) Publicย  Library Act (First)

1948

14

Orrissa Public Library Act

2001

15

Pondichery Public Library Act

2007

16

Rajasthan Public Library Act

2006

17

Uttar Pradesh Public Library Act

2005

18

Uttrakhand Public Library Act

2005

19

West Bengal Public Library Act

1979

ย 

ย 

LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS/ HEAD OFFICE AND YEARS

SR.NO.

ASSOCIATIONS

CITY/COUNTRY

YEAR

1

Indian Library Association

Calcutta

1933

2

International Federation of Library Association (IFLA) Founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1927, IFLA was registered in the Netherlands in 1971

Netherlands

ย 

1927

3

Commonwealth Library Association (COMLA)

Lagos

1972

4

Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers (IASLIC)

Calcutta

1955

5

Association for Special Libraries and Information Bureauย  (ASLIB)

London

1926

6

Government of India Libraries Association (GILA)

New Delhi

1933

7

Special Libraries Association

New York

1909

8

Library Associationย  (UK)

UK

1877

9

American Library Association (ALA)

America

1876

15

Andhra Pradesh Library Association

Andhra Pradesh

1914

16

Madras Library Association

Madras

1928

17

Bengal Library Association

Bengal

1929

18

ย Hyderabad Library Association

ย 

1953

19

ย Bihar Library Association

Bihar

1936

20

Kerala Pradesh Library Association

Kerala

1942

21

Delhi Pradesh Library Association

Delhi

1953

22

Madhya Pradesh Library Association

ย 

1957

23

Bombay Pradesh Library Association

ย 

1944

ย 

ย 

ย 

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CLASSIFICATION / CATALOGUING SCHEMES

Sr. No.

Classification / Cataloguing Schemes

Inventor

Year

1

Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)

Melvil Dewey

1876

2

Colon Classification (CC)

S.R. Rangnathan

1933

3

Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)

FID(Henry La Fontine and Paul Otlet)

1905

4

Library ofย  Congress Classification (LC)

Library of Congress

1904

5

Subject Classificationย  (SC)

J.D. Brown

1906

6

Expansive Classification (EC)

Cutter C.A.

1891

7

Bibliographic Classification (BC)

Bliss H.E.

1935

8

International Classification (IC)

F.Rider

1961

9

Library Bibliographic Classification (LBK)

Lenin Library Moscow

1959

10

Broad System of Ordering (BSO)

FID/Unesco

1978

ย 

CATALOGUING SCHEMES

Sr. No.

Cataloguing Schemes

Inventor

Year

1

Vetican Code

ย 

ย 

2

Anglo American Code

ALA

1908

3

ALA Code

ALA

1949

4

British Museum Code

The British Museum Research Board

1841

5

Rules For Dictionary Catalogues

Cutter C.A.

1876

6

Classified Catalogue Code (CCC)

Dr. S.R. Ranganathan

1934

7

Anglo American Cataloguing Rules โ€“I

ALA

1967

8

Anglo American Cataloguing Rules โ€“II

ALA

1978

9

World cat(Union Catalogue)

OCLC(Fred Kirlgour)

1967

10

Copac(Union Catalogue)

Research Library UK

ย 

11

Amicus(Union Catalogue)

Library and Archives Canada.

ย 

ย 

INDEXING SYSTEMS/ ORIGINATORS AND YERS

Sr. No.

Indexing System

Inventor

Year

1

PREserved Context Indexing System(PRESIS)

Derik Austin

1968

2

Chain Indexing

Dr. S.R. Rangnathan

1934

3

Postulate Based Permuted Subject Indexing (POPSI)

G. Bhattacharya

1979

4

Uniterm Indexing

  1. M.ย ย  Taube

1953

5

Citation Indexing

  1. A.ย ย ย  Garfield

ย 

6

Subject Indexing

M.E. Sears

ย 

7

Key Word Indexing

H.P. Luhn

1959

8

Automated Indexing

H. Ohlman

ย 

9

SLIC Indexing

J.R. Sharma

ย 

10

Thesaurus Indexing

P.M. Rogget

ย 

11

Systematic indexing

Kaiser, J.

1911

ย 

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND ORGANISATIONS

Sr. No.

Organization

Place

Year

1

International Federation for Documentation (FID), It is not working it dissolved in the year 2002

Hague

12 September, 1895

2

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Viena

1957

3

International Council of Scientific Union (ICSU)

Brussels

1931

4

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Jeeneva

1967

5

International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA)

Scotland

1926

6

Bhabha Automic Research Center (BARC)

Mumbai

1967

7

Documentation Research & Training Center (DRTC)

Bangalore

1962

8

University Grand Commission (UGC)

New Delhi

1953

9

Defenece Research & Development Organization

New Delhi

1958

10

Patent Information System (PIS)

Nagpur

ย 

11

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Viena

1969

12

Agricultural Information System of FAO (AGRIS)

Rom

1975

ย 

ย 

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

Sr. No.

Organization

Place

Year

1

Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)

Dublin (Ohio)

1967

2

Joint Academic Network (JANET)

UK

1984

3

Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN)

ย 

1978

4

Information And Library Network (INFLIBNET)

Ahmadabad

1991

5

Education and Research Network (ERNET)

ย 

1986

6

National Information Center Network (NICNET) (NIC)

New Delhi

1977

7

Indian National Scientific Documentation Center (INSDOC)

New Delhi

1952

8

Defence Science Documentation Center (DESIDOC)

New Delhi

1958

9

National Social Science Documentation Center (NASDOC)

New Delhi

1970

10

Small Scale Enterprise National Documental Center (SENDOC)

Hyderabad

1971

11

National Information Centerย  (NIC)

New Delhi

1975

12

SAARC Documentation Centre

New Delhi

June 1994

13

Society For Information Science

ย 

1976

14

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals(United Kingdom)

UK

Merger of Library Association(LA), UK in 2002

ย 

LIBRARIES AUTOMATION SOFTWARE

ย Sr. No.

Software

Developed By

Year

1

CDS/ISIS

UNESCO

1985

2

Sanjay

DESIDOC

ย 

3

Minisis

IDRC

1970

4

e-Grathalaya

INSDOC (NIC)

2002

5

Libsys

Infotech

1988

6

TULIPS

Tata Unisis

ย 

7

OASIS

Soft Link

ย 

8

LIBRIES

Frontier Info Technology

ย 

9

SLIIM

Algorthics

ย 

10

Soul

INFLIBNET

2000

11

E-granthalaya

NIC(KARANATAKA)

2002

12

Koha

KatipoCommunications Horowhenua Library Trust

2000

ย 

DIGITAL LIBRARY SOFTWARES

Sr. No.

Software

Developed By

Year

1

GreenStone

New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikatoย  Supported by UNESCO and Human Info NGO

1995

2

D Space

DuraSpace

2002

3

Eprints

University of Southampton

2000

ย 

PROGRAMMING LANGUGES

Sr. No

Programming Language

Year

Expansion

1

ENIAC coding system

1943

ย 

2

FORTRAN

1955

FORmula TRANslator

3

LISP

1958

LISt Processor

4

COBOL

1959

COmmon Business Oriented Language

5

PASCAL

1970

ย 

6

C

1972

ย 

7

SQL

1978

Simple Query Language

8

C++

1980

ย 

9

Perl

1987

ย 

10

Python

1991

ย 

11

HTML

1991

Hyper Text Markup Language

12

Java

1995

ย 

13

PHP

1995

ย 

ย 

Ranganathan Important Books And Their Publication

Sr.No.

Title

Year

1

Five Laws of Library Science

1931

2

Colon Classification

1933

3

Prolegomena to Library Classification

1937

4

Theory of the Library Catalogue

1938

5

Classified catalogue Code

1934

6

Elements of Library Classification

1945

7

Classification and International Documentation

1948

8

Classification and Communication

1951

9

Headings and Canons

1955

10

Philosophy of Library Classification

1950

ย 

Networking and Year of Establishment

Sl No

Network

Expansion

Year

Sponsored body

Location

1

Del Net

Developing Library Network

1988

NISSAT and DSIR

Delhi

2

ERNET

Education Research Network

1986

Dept. Of Electronics, and UNDP

IIT college centers

3

INFLBNET

Information And Library Network

1991

UGC

Ahmadabad

4

NICNET

National Information Centre Network

1975

ย 

Delhi

5

JANET

Joint Academic Network

ย 

ย 

ย 

6

BLAISE

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

7

OCLC

Online Centre for Library catalogue

ย 

ย 

ย 

ย 

Important Management Schools of thought

Sl. No

School of Thought

Founder

Year

1

Scientific management Theory

Term derived by Louis Brandies

Father of Scientific theory F W Taylor

1910

2

Classical Theory or Generalist Theory

Henry Foyal

1916

3

Human Behavioral Theory

Elton Mayo

1933

4

Burocractic theory

Max Webber

1864-1920

4

Hierarchy ofย  need theory

Abraham Maslow

1943

5

Motivation theory

Abraham Maslow

1943

6

Motivation Theory โ€˜X โ€˜and โ€˜Yโ€™

Mc Gregor

1960

7

Management by Objectives(MBO)

Peter Brucker

1954

ย 

Important terms in library science

Sl No

Terms

Developed by

1

Information Society

Japan 1966 โ€œJohoka Shakalโ€

2

Knowledge Society

Peter Druckorย  (1969)

3

Electronic Society

Zblgnlew Brozozinski (1970)

4

Information Science

Calvin Moores, 1959

5

Information centre

U S A

ย 

Library Celebrations

Sl No

National Days

Celebrations

Commencing Year

1

National Library week

November 14 to November 20.

1968 Started by ILA but In the world first library week Celebrated by ALA in 1958

2

Librarians Day

12th August

ย 

3

National Book week

ย 

ย 

4

Open Access Week

October 18-24

ย 

5

Library day

20 December

ย 

6

E- Book day

March 8th - 14th

ย 

ย 

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