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Unit 3: Concept of Library

The aforesaid change made by Ranganathan offered enough freedom to learned scholars to present Notes
the laws in any form they liked. They did not bother about the grammar and used capital letters in
the statements with absolute abandon. Many forms the laws exist today. Some of them are being
presented here verbatim.
Forms III to V are from Parekh’s paper; form VI from Thaker and Rawal’s paper, form VII from
Aghav’s paper, and form VIA and VIII from Dasgupta’s paper.

Form III [by Lenart Bjorneborn]

1. Links are for use–the very essence of hypertext
2. Every surfer his or her link–the rich diversity of links across topics and genes
3. Every link its surfer
4. Save the time of the surfer–visualizing web clusters and small-world shortcuts
5. The Web is a growing organism

Form IV [Author not mentioned]

1. Software is for use
2. Every user his or her software (or software is for all)
3. Every software its user
4. Save the time of the user
5. A software Library is a growing organism

Form V [Updated form of five laws by Walt Crawford and Michael Gorman]
1. Libraries serve humanity
2. Respect all forms by which knowledge is communicated
3. Use technology intelligently to enhance service
4. Protect free access to knowledge
5. Honor the past and create the future

Form VI

Information is for use
Every user his or her Information
Every Byte of Information its user
Save the time of the Information users & Staff
Universe of Information is growing organism
It may be noted that the author has used capital letter/s for ‘byte’ (3rd law), ‘information’ in all
places and ‘staff’ in the fourth law disregarding the rules of grammar. The definite article ‘The’ is
missing at the beginning of the fifth law.

Form VI A
1. Information is for use
2. Every user his or her information

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