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Library and Information Society

Notes 6. Ranganathan’s third law suggest that every member of the community should be able to
obtain meterials needed.
7. S.R. Ranganathan was a university librarian and professor of library science at Benares Hindu
university.
8. Ranganathan presented his five laws of library science for the 1st time in 1928.
9. Ranganathan’s five laws appeared in the book form in the year 1928.

3.5 Summary

• A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, and services: it is organized for use
and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional
sense, a library is a collection of books. Typically library functions are collected together into
libraries, which comprise suites of functions that are loosely related in some way. An example
might be a collection of functions that deal with dates and times and how they can be formatted
or represented. Libraries save programmers the bother of writing code to do the same tasks
time and time again; in short, libraries encourage code reuse. In the more traditional sense, a
library is a collection of books. The term can mean the collection, the building that houses
such a collection, or both.
• A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, books, and services, and the structure
in which it is housed.
• The purpose of the library is to be useful, for combining tailor-made image processing and
interpretation with standard methods for acquisitions, processing, display and storage of image
information.
• The Five laws of library science was a theory proposed by S. R. Ranganathan.
• The first law constitutes the basis for the library services.
• Second law suggests that every member of the community should be able to obtain materials
needed.
• Third principle is closely related to the second law but it focuses on the item itself, suggesting
that each item in a library has an individual or individuals who would find that item useful.
• Fifth law focused more on the need for internal change than on changes in the environment
itself.
• In 2004, librarian Alireza Noruzi recommended applying Ranganathan’s laws to the Web in
his paper.

3.6 Keywords

Enlightenment : The process of understanding something
Altruistic : Selfless
Variants : A thing that is a slightly different form or type of something else.

3.7 Review Questions

1. What are the facilities provided in library?
2. What are the keys used in developing in library?
3. Analyze on the library function.

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