[LIS-Forum] Ranganathan’s Five-Laws re-invented by OCLC for the world of e-Libraries and e- Learning!

[Mysore Jagadish]

Dear Sathya
This looks great.
Thanks
On 11 Aug 2015 17:58, "Sathya" <sathya19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Happy Librarian's Day!*
>
> The intellectual spirit of S R Ranganathan is alive and rocking in the new
> world order of information, education and learning.  Thanks to OCLC, which
> came out with an independent report last year (2014) titled – “Reordering
> Ranganathan: Shifting user behavior, shifting priorities”.  This report is
> a well-researched effort to bring in a new perspective to Ranganathan’s
> Five Laws in a digital landscape. The report expands the scope of the five
> laws to the e-Content domain of all types in all media including e-learning
> systems.  The expanded scope covers users beyond the purview of traditional
> LIS.   One can see this in the illustrated examples in the report like
> “Every Google map its traveller”.  How universal and relevant are
> Ranganathan’s Laws is convincingly brought out in this report by the two
> OCLC researchers  (Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. and Ixchel M. Faniel,
> Ph.D.
>
> This 130 page report is also excellently summarized by Dr. K. S. Raghavan
> in a 30 page article published in the recent issue of the SRELS Journal of
> Information Management [Vol 52(1), Feb. 2015, p. 3–23].  This  was the
> journal founded by Dr. Ranganathan fifty one years ago: (
> http://i-scholar.in/index.php/sjim/article/view/60392/51360)
> The original report can be accessed form OCLC site:  (
>
> http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-reordering-ranganathan-2014.pdf
> )
>
> The complete digital archive of SRELS Journal on Information Management
> form Volume 1 is now available, published by Informatics Publishing Ltd.,
> (a subsidiary of Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore) on its i-Scholar
> platform .  (www.srels.org)
>
> As the LIS profession readies to celebrate Librarian’s Day on 12th August
> in honor of Dr. S R Ranganathan, I extend my hearty greetings to the
> members of the LIS community and wish the profession many new vistas to
> explore and strengthen its value contribution to the Society at large.
>
> Do we need to re-invent or re-order Five Laws for our Digital Times?  This
> will be an interesting question to debate over this report. Librarian's Day
> is the right occasion for this debate.
>
>
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