Every field has its laws — physics, mathematics, grammar. Library science (yes, that’s really what it’s called, and yes, you really can go to school for it!) has some, too. The Indian ...

Have you ever heard of S.R. Ranganathan? He was a mathematician and librarian from India who developed what are known as the Five Laws of Library Science. These laws, first proposed by Dr ...

Therefore, UNESCO suggests the following Five Laws of Media and Information Literacy. They are inspired by the Five Laws of Library Science proposed by S. R. Ranganathan in 1931. The Five Laws of MIL ...

The latter is essentially a dissertation on the five ‘laws’ or principles of library science which Dr. Ranganathan enunciated nearly twenty years ago: books are for use ; every reader his book ...

Scratch a librarian and you're likely to find some Ranganathan. The "five laws of library science" were first formulated by Indian librarian S. R. Ranganathan in 1931, but even today many fledgling ...