Dear Badan, 12 August is celebrated as Librarians day because the official birth date of S R Ranganathan is 12th August. This date is used for all official purposes. The Librarian's Day is declared by S R Ranganathan and naturally they will go for official date only. So Librarian's day is celebrated on 12th August instead of 9th August. Regards http://www.jstor.org/pss/25540934 On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Badan Barman wrote:

Respected group members, Saba Nasreen Bano http://lislinks.com/profile/sabanasreenbano posted a discussion over http://lislinks.com site. The title of which is "Why Librarians' day on 12 August, When Ranganathan's birthday is on 9 August?" : http://lislinks.com/forum/topics/why-librarians-day-on-12. We at our discussion forum unable to determine what is the right answer of the question. So, can anybody from other online group / forum will give focus on this issue? It will be a great help for all of us. The discussion is live over: http://lislinks.com/forum/topics/why-librarians-day-on-12

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Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman)

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