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Unit 1: Introduction to Library Science

Self Assessment Notes

Fill in the blanks:
5. The ...... was the first textbook on library science published in english anywhere in
the world.
6. The first magazine ...... appeared in 1890’s.
7. The first academic journal ...... was also launched in 1890’s.
8. 1545 Journals were identified from ...... .
9. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan was a ...... and ...... from India.

1.5 Summary

• Development of library and information science literature is mapped on the literary outputs
available through Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA).
• Library and information science literature grew right from the time when the first core trade
publication “Bookseller” (abstracted now in LISTA) appeared in 1852.
• The regional distribution of publication channels in library and information science vividly
demonstrate that the developed countries provide more publication channels.
• Term “library science” seems to have been used for the first time in a book in 1916 in the
“Panjab Library Primer” written by Asa Don Dickinson and published by the University of
the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Library science is constantly evolving, incorporating new topics like database management,
information architecture and knowledge management, among others.
• Special librarians include almost any other form of librarianship, including those who serve
in medical libraries (and hospitals or medical schools), corporations, news agencies, govern-
ment organizations, or other special collections.
• The geographic output and the date of the first issue was extracted from Ulrichsweb One of
the renowned source listing periodical publications all over the world.

1.6 Keywords

Michael Gorman’s Our Enduring Values : Librarianship in the 21st Century, features his 8
principles necessary by library professionals and
incorporate knowledge and information in all their
forms, allowing for digital information to be
considered.
Not Traceable : The literature whose chronology was not traceable was
put into a separate category called “Not Traceable”
(N.T.).

1.7 Review Questions

1. What do you mean by the term Library Science? When it was founded and by
whom?
2. Who is written and published to the Punjab Library Primer?

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