NET/SLET/SET: September 2013

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Year Wise Development of Library and Information Science in the World and India

Year Wise Development of Library and Information Science in the World and India

440: Bibliothec Nationale, Paris (National Library, France).
1774: Rampur Raza Library, Uttar Pradesh.
1800: Library of Congress, USA.
1808: Funds for the encouragement of literature.
1810: American Patent Law.
1835: National Library of India.
1841: Henri Fayol was born.
1850: First library act was enacted in Great Britain.

1852: British Patent Law.

1852: Roget’s Thesaurus.

1856: Frederick Winslow Taylor was born.

1856: Intellectual Property Right Act (India).

1861: Henry Laurence Gantt was born.

1862: State Lenin Library, Moscow.

1864: Max Weber was born.

1867: The Press and Registration of books Act Enacted.

1867: The Press and Registration of books Act was enacted (India).

1876: American Library Association (ALA) was established.

1876: Cutter’s Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue.

1876: Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) by Melvil Dewey.

1876: First Journal of Librarianship was published.

1877: Library Association (LA), UK was formed.

1879: Expansive Classification by C. A. Cutter.

1985: CDS/ISIS software.

1886: Berne convention was adopted.

1890: Connemara Public Library.

1891: Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library.

1891: Lyndall Urwick was born.

1895: Browne charging system started.

1898: Library of Congress Subject Headings.

1902: Library of Congress Classification.

1905: The first edition of Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) was published.

1906: Douglas McGregor was born.

1906: Subject Classification by J. D. Brown.

1908: Abraham Maslow was born.

1908: Catalog Rules: Author and Title Entries. (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) first published)

1909: Peter Drucker was born.

1909: Special Library Association (SLA).

1910: A. W. Borden start a refresher course for librarians in India.

1911: Kaisers systematic Indexing.

1911: The Design Act.

1912: National Library, Germany.

1914: Andhra Pradesh Library Association.

1914: The Andhra Desa Library Association was founded.

1917: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune.

1917: David McClelland was born.

1918: Sarasvati Mahal Library.

1921: Maharashtra Library Association.

1923: Frederick Herzberg was born.

1923: Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH).

1925: Bengal Library Association.

1926: Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureau (ASLIB).

1928: Madras Library Association.

1929: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

1929: Karnataka Library Association.

1929: Punjab Library Association.

1931: ‘Five Laws of Library Science’ was first published.

1931: International Institute of Documentation was established.

1931: Melville Dewey Passed away.

1931: Samastha Kerala Pustakalaya Samiti.

1932: Electrically operated book charging system firstly introduced.

1933: Colon Classification (CC) was first published.

1933: India Library Association (ILA).

1934: Headquarter of International Federation of Documentation (FID) was shifted from Brussels to The Hague.

1935: Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss.

1936: Bihar Library Association.

1937: International Institute of Documentation changed to International Federation of Documentation.

1938: Assam Library Association.

1939: Henry Mintzberg was born.

1944: Utkal Library Association.

1945: Kerala Library Association.

1945: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

1947: Indian National Bibliography first appeared.

1947: National Medical Library, New Delhi.

1948: Bradford formulated the law of scatter.

1948: National Diet Library, Japan.

1948: Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras) Public Libraries Act.

1949: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto first issued.

1950: Relational Indexing.

1951: Delhi Public Library.

1951: Hyderabad Library Association.

1951: National Library of India.

1951: The Wheat loan Educational Exchange Programme.

1951: Uttar Pradesh Library Association.

1952: Universal Copyright Conventions.

1953: Delhi Library Association.

1953: Gujarat Library Association.

1953: UNITERM.

1954: Peter F. Drucker defined Management by Objectives (MBO).

1954: The Delivery of Books (Public Libraries) Act was passed.

1955: Hyderabad public libraries Act.

1955: Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centre (IASLIC) was founded.

1956: Delivery of Books (Public Libraries Act) 1954 was amended.

1957: Indian Library Association (ILA) became the member of International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

1957: Indian National Bibliography (INB) first appeared.

1957: Madhya Bharat Library Association.

1957: System analysis has been used first by H. Khan and Mann of RAND Corporation.

1958: First Ph.D in the Library and Information Science in India.

1958: Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was developed.

1960: Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries Act.

1961: Gomantak Library Association.

1961: International Classification by F. Rider.

1961: International Conference on Cataloging Principles, Paris.

1962: Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore.

1962: Dr. S. R. Ranganathan was appointed as a National research professor of Library science.

1962: Rajasthan Library Association.

1963: Coats Subject Indexing.

1964: POPSI.

1965: Karnataka Public Library Act.

1966: Jammu & Kashmir Library Association.

1966: Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC).

1967: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - I (AACR-I).

1967: Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC) project completed.

1967: Maharashtra Public Libraries Act.

1967: Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC).

1967: Tripura Library Association.

1967: World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) was established by the WIPO Convention.

1969: The term "Bibliometrics" was coined by Alan Pritchard.

1970: The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) organized its annual meeting around the theme “the information conscious society”.

1970: Zero Base Budgeting system was first prepared.

1971: Berne Convention and Universal Copyright Convention was revised in Paris.

1971: International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).

1971: UNISIST Programme.

1972: Common Communication Format (CCF).

1972: International Book Year celebrated by UNESCO.

1972: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) took up the “Universal Availability of Publication” program.

1972: Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF) was established.

1972: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto which was issued in 1949 got revived.

1973: Social Science Citation Index.

1974: International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).

1974: PRECIS.

1974: Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN

1974: Science Citation Index.

1974: Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC).

1976: Universal Availability of Publications (UAP).

1977: NICNET

1977: NICNET.

1977: Universal Machine Readable Catalogue (UNIMARC) was developed by IFLA.

1978: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - II (AACR-II).

1978: Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

1979: West Bengal Public Libraries Act.

1982: FID.

1982: Open System Interconnection (OSI) Model.

1985: CD-ROM was prepared and made.

1985: CDS/ISIS.

1985: Committee On Library and Information Science (CONPOLIS India) was set up.

1986: CALIBNET.

1986: ERNET.

1986: Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean (INFOLAC).

1986: National Information Policy.

1987: Manipur Library Association.

1987: Mizoram Library Association.

1988: Anglo American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition revised (AACR2 R)

1988: INFLIBNET.

1988: Manipur Public Libraries Act.

1989: Haryana Public Libraries Act.

1989: Kerala Public Libraries Act.

1990: Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) was first started in Singapore.

1990-93: Curriculam development committee on LIS instituted

1992: DELNET.

1993: ADINET.

1993: Goa Public Libraries Act.

1993: MALIBNET.

1993: Mizoram Public Libraries Act

1993: Project MUSE, an online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers was launched.

1993: UGC Curriculum Development Committee.

1994: Meghalaya Library Association.

1994: MYLIBNET.

1994: Orbicom, the international network of UNESCO chairs in communications.

1994: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto was last revised.

1995: Journal Storage (J-Store) was launched.

1995: Origin of Dublin Core Metadata.

1996: Nagaland Library Association.

1997: Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL).

1997: GreenStone.

1997: Joint Academic Network (JANET)

1998: China Academic Library & Information System.

1999: Global Network for Education in Journalism.

2000: EPrints Software.

2000: Information Technology Act.

2000: KOHA Software.

2000: SOUL Software.

2001: J-Gate, an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature.

2002: Chartered institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) was formed.

2002: DSpace Software.

2002: FID was dissolved.

2002: Gujarat Public Libraries Act.

2002: Orissa Public Library Act.

2002: UGC- INFONET.

2003: HELINET.

2005: Uttaranchal Public Libraries Act.

2006: Rajasthan Public Libraries Act.

2006: Uttar Pradesh Library Act.

2007: ISBN changed from 10 digits to 13 digit.

2007: National Knowledge Commission on Libraries.

2007: NEWGENLIB.

2010: ASLIB was acquired by MCB group, the holding company for emerald group publishing.

2011: DDC 23rd edition was published.

2011: International Standard Book Number (ISBN) allocation office in India shifted from Kolkatta to Delhi.

People and Their Contribution towards Library and Information Science

Here in this place, people and their contribution are arranged alphabetically by the name of the person. The prefix such as Mr./Ms./Dr./Prof. are excluded.

A. B. Maslow: Proposed Hygienic factors.
A Maslow: Hierarchy of need Theory.

Alan Pritchard: He for the first time coined the term "Bibliometrics" in a paper titled "Statistical Bibliography or Bibliometrics?"

Alireza Noruzi: Applies Ranganathan's Laws to the Web.

B. S. Jha: Was the chairman of National Library Committee of India.

B.S Kesavan: First Librarian of National Library of India.

Beesman : The propounder of the term information transfer.

Benjamin A. Custer: The Editor in Chief of 19th Edition of DDC.

C. A. Cutter: Invented the Dictionary Catalogue.

C. W. Hanson: Divides documentary sources of information into two categories i.e. Primary and Secondary.

C.E. Shannon & W. Weaver: Proposed Linear model of communication in knowledge based on Aristotles’ model of communication.

Carl Savage: Used the concept “Invisible College” for the first time.

Charles Babbage: Designed analytical engine.

Charles Babbage: The father of the computer.

Conrad Gesner: He is regarded as father of bibliography.
D. B. Krishna Rao: First Ph.D. holders in Library Science in India.

Denis Grogan: Classifies the documents into three categories, i.e primary, secondary and tertiary.

Derek Austin: Developed PRECIS.

Douglas Mc Gregor: Developed Theory X and Theory Y.

E. B. Ross: Provided casual hint to Dr. S. R. Ranganathan that makes the First law of Library to emerge.

E. C. Richardson: Defined notation as shorthand sign.

E. J. Coats: Coats Subject Indexing.
Elton Mayo: Social Relation of Management.

Edgar. F. Codd: Gives the 12 rules for relational database.

F. Monbrary Volte: The first editor of “Modern Librarian”

F. W. Taylor: The father of Scientific Management.

F W Taylor: Scientific Principles of Management.
F Herzberg: Develop Motivation Hygienic Approach.

Francis Bacon: Said that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested”.
G. Bhattacharya: Developed POPSI.

George Boole: Discussed symbolic logic in “Treatise of differential equation”.

George Kingsely Zipf: Wrote “Psycho-biology of language: An introduction to dynamic philosophy”.

H. Khan and Mann: System analysis has been used first by H. Khan and Mann of RAND Corporation.

Haines: Wrote “Living with book”.

Henri Fayol: The father of Classical School of Management.

Henri La Fontaine: Honoured with ‘Nobel Prize’ for his substantial contribution in Documentation.

J. C. M. Hanson: Devised Library of Congress Classification System.

J. D. Brown: Enunciated the subject Classification.

J. E. L. Farradane: Developed Relational Indexing.

James Duff Brown: The pioneer of open access system in British libraries.
John Macfarlane: The first librarian of the Imperial Library (now National Library, Kolkata, India).

James I. Wyer: Propounded “Conservative, moderate and liberal theories of reference service”.

James R. Rettig: Gave the sixth law of library science “Every reader his/her freedom”

John Cotton Dana: Started New York Charging system.

John S. Mitchell: The Editor in Chief of 23rd Edition of DDC.

Kaiser: Give the concept of concretes and processes.
Kumudeshar Barthakur: Took leading role for the library movement in Assam (India).

Larry Page and Sergey Brain: Developed Google.

Larry: Firstly developed Data Flow Diagram (DFD).
Luther Gulick: POSDCORB.

M. M. Kessler: Advocated Bibliographic coupling for the first time.
Melvin Dewey: He for the first time started library school.
Paul Otlet: He for the first time used the term ‘Documentation’ in a lecture at the International Congress at Brussels.
Luther Gulick: Coined the term “POSDCORB”.

M. C. Yovits: Stated that Information is data of value to decision making.

M. M. Kessler: Advocated Bibliographic coupling for the first time.

Madden, Moon, Moore, Mc Pheron: Stated that “Librarianship is not a profession”.

Martimer Taube: Developed UNITERM.

Mc Colvin: Stated the demand and supply theory of books.

Melvil Dewey: Quoted "To provide the best books to the maximum readers at the least cost".

Melville Dewey: Devised DDC system.

Melvin J. Voigt: Categorized information need into current approach, everyday approach, and exhaustive approach

Michael Gorman: Suggested for Book Order Vigilance Pad (BOVP).

Michael Gorman: Wrote “Our Singular Strengths”.
Nihar Ranjan Roy: He for the first time in India, DDC and AACR rule introduced.

Pascal: Developed Calculating machine.

Patricia B. Knapp: Contributed on the systematic use of user's education.

Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine: Devised UDC.

Peter A. Phyor: Zero Based Budget.

Peter F. Drucker: Introduced Management by Objectives (MBO).
Peter Drucker: Father of Modern Management.

Powell: Stated ”It is a library with little or no physical presence of books, periodicals, reading space or support staff, but are that disseminate disseminate selective information directly to distribute library customers, usually electronically”.

R. Astall: Stated “Special libraries serve a specialist clientele, located within a single establishment or group and all engaged in working towards one common purpose.”

Richard Matthew Stallman: Founded Free Software Foundation (FSF).
S. R. Ranganathan: Stated “A library is a public institution or establishment charged with the care of collection of books, the duty of making them accessible to those who require the use of them and the task of converting every person in its neighborhood into a habitual library goers and reader of books.”

S. R. Ranganathan: Quote “Reference service is the contact between the right reader and the right book in the right personal way”.

S. R. Ranganathan: Coined the term “Library on Wheels” for mobile libraries.

S. R. Ranganathan: Enunciated the five fundamental categories.

S. R. Ranganathan: Classified documentary sources of information into Conventional, Neo Conventional, Non Conventional and Meta Document.

S. R. Ranganathan: First professionally qualified university librarian in India.

S. R. Ranganathan: Introduced Three card system- (i) Register Card, (ii) Check Card, and (iii) Classified Index Card.

S. R. Ranganathan: He for the first time used the term prenatal cataloguing.

S. Halkett & J. Laing: The author of “Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous literature”.

Samuel Clement Bradford: Bradfords Law of Information.

Samuel Rothstein: Given the Minimal, Middling and Maximum theories of reference service.

Sam Pitroda: Was the Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission, Govt. of India.

Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III: Made first time efforts for the development of libraries in India.

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan: Classified documentary sources of information into Conventional, Neo Conventional, Non Conventional and Meta Document.

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan: Developed Colon Classification System.

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan: Father of Library science in India.

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan: Formulated Ready and Long range Reference service.

Siyaji Rao Gaikwad: The ruler of Baroda state (India).

Shannon and Weaver: Proposed Mathematical Theory of Information.

T. S. Eliot: Stated “Where is the Wisdom, We Lost in Knowledge...”

Ted Nelson: Coined the term Hyper Text.

Tim Berner's Lee: He firstly designed the World Wide Web (WWW).
William Gibson: Used the term ‘Cyberspace’ for the first time.

William Allenson Borden: The disciple of Melvil Dewey who worked in India.