Well said, Dr SRR is known to the entire world as a great thinker with original ideas about LIS. On his birthday we should discuss about what we can do to highlight his works, teachings and research. Koteswara Rao Former librarian UoH Sent from my iPhone
On 05-Sep-2016, at 9:16 PM, mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote:
Dear Members, Please refer my posting on the above subject matter dated 25 Aug 2016. The archived copy of that message can be accessed at http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2016-August/020020.html
As reported in my communication, many of us who have registered with LIS-Forum with personal IDs, were having issues in receiving mails from LIS-Forum. Since about a week or so, I have stated receiving lis-forum mails on my personal Gmail ID. I have cross-checked with few other members, and they, too, have confirmed that they are now receiving lis-forums on the their personal IDs.
I am forwarding an important posting dated 11 August 2016 by Dr. K.S. Raghavan clarifying Dr. Ranganathan's birthday. This post was circulated on lis-forum on the 11th August, but during that period, there were some issues in the relaying of lis-forum mails to personal IDs, it is, therefore, being circulated again.
Best, Francis
Francis Jayakanth Moderator, LIS-Forum
---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Dr. Ranganathan's birthday From: mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Sat, August 13, 2016 1:48 pm To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 04:43:29 +0000 From: K.S. Raghavan <ksragav at hotmail.com>
In the last few days I have seen quite a few postings on LIS Forum and other channels on the subject of Dr. Ranganathan's birthday. Dr. Ranganathan's actual date of birth is 9th August; In the official records his date of birth is shown as 12th August. At the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science the practice was to observe the birthday on any day between 9th and 12th August. However, 12th August has been officially declared as Librarians' day.
Prof. Neelameghan had once told me that Dr. Ranganathan did not approve of any function / celebrations even on his birthday. But mortals that we are, we need something to ring the bell and wake us up from slumber and I believe that the celebrations are purely for that purpose. Let us remember that library / information service is a support service so that some one who is our customer is able to carry out his task in a more effective and efficient manner. Let us not forget what Dr. Ranganathan preached and practised. It certainly should not be that we celebrate his birthday and forget his ideals the next day ! Let us put an end to this debate and focus on what needs to be done.
Wishing all LIS Professionals a happy Librarians' Day.
Regards
K. S. Raghavan Member-Secretary, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science K. S. Raghavan
Visiting Scientist Centre for Knowledge Analytics & Ontological Engineering (KAnOE) PES University 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK 3rd Stage Bengaluru 560085
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