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Reena Kapoor, Lovely Professional University Unit 2: Laws of Library Science

Unit 2: Laws of Library Science Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
2.1 Laws of Library Science: An Overview
2.1.1 Need of the Laws of Library and Information Science

2.1.2 Usefulness of the Five Laws
2.1.3 Variants of the Five Laws of LIS
2.2 First Law “Books are for Use”

2.3 Second Law “Every Reader His/Her Book”
2.3.1 Implications of the Second Law
2.3.2 Resource Sharing

2.4 Third Law “Every Book Its Reader”
2.4.1 Implications – Open Access
2.4.2 Implications – Services
2.4.3 Implications – The Library Catalogue

2.5 Fourth Law “Save the Time of the Reader”
2.5.1 Implications – Open Access

2.5.2 Implications – Classification and Cataloguing
2.5.3 Implications – Charging System
2.6 Fifth Law “Library is a Growing Organism”
2.6.1 Implications – Book Stock

2.6.2 Implications – Readers
2.6.3 Implications – Staff

2.6.4 Implications – Classification and the Catalogue
2.6.5 Implications – Modernisation
2.6.6 Implications – Provision for the Future
2.6.7 Implications – Weeding out of Books

2.7 Summary
2.8 Keywords
2.9 Review Questions

2.10 Further Readings

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