Dear friends, An ideology of librarianship was created by S.R.Ranganathan in his classic The Five Laws of Library Science. He formulated objectives and principles for the organization of access to and use library materials. As Ranganathan asserted, " it should be the business of the librarian to adopt all the recognized methods of attracting the public to the library, so that every potential reader may be converted in to actual one, there by increasing the fulfillment of the Third Law." The third law concerns context rather than law content. The mission of the librarian is to build a well -organised collection of resources in order to maximize the chance that users will find what they need. The third law is also tells "Every book ,its reader" almost means that "resources look for people." Who want and need them the most. Library patrons, Ranganathan points out, often do not know enough about available resources to know what to request. Any organization of the electronic or physical library that focuses only on getting the readers what they ask for neglects two key components of good library practice: browsing and linking. M.Krishnamurthy -- Dr. M Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc., Ph.D. Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.