Open Access to Ranganathan

Posted in access, librarians | Monday, July 10th, 2006 | 6 Comments » Trackback
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I know, I know, I’m like a Ranganathan fangirl. “The library is a growing organism! blah blah blah” But this is Ranganathan news that is current! And cool! The Digital Library of Information Science & Technology Classics Project has gotten permission from the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science to provide open access to many of Ranganathan’s works. There is some preliminary material scanned from the Five Laws of Library Science available already.

6 Responses to “Open Access to Ranganathan”

  1. Greg Says:
    July 10th, 2006 at 9:14

    Amen and Hallelujah

  2. Fiona Says:
    July 10th, 2006 at 9:32

    That rocks! Ranganathan’s works apart from Colon Classification etc are sometimes hard to find in libraries here, and if they are available they are locked up in stacks or rare books etc.

  3. lbr.library-blogs.net Says:
    July 10th, 2006 at 9:49

    Open-access Ranganathan coming soon to dLIST

    This is fantastic news that I just came across at Jessamyn’s librarian.net and at ResourceShelf. The Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) has granted the dLIST Classics Project permission to publish online and “provide

  4. Anne Says:
    July 12th, 2006 at 4:40

    Oh thank heavens! Do you mean I’m not the only librarian in the world that has Ragnathan’s 5 laws of librarianship tacked up on my cubicle wall?

  5. Dr. Mohamed Taher Says:
    August 6th, 2006 at 8:42

    Hello
    I thank you for this information.
    I have cited you in my blog: Visualizing the Emerging Nexus: Five Laws of Ranganathan and the WWW Era

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    September 20th, 2006 at 2:56

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