Dear Sathya
This looks great.
Thanks
On 11 Aug 2015 17:58, "Sathya"
*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/oclcresea... )
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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