At this time, dLIST has only posted a preliminary scan of the Prefatory Matter and Chapter 1: The First Law of Dr. Ranganathan's Five Laws. We are currently working to complete the full text of Five Laws and other works listed below. We are pleased to note that in just over 24 hours these preliminary files have been downloaded more than 640 times by users across the world, evidence of the enduring and universal importance of Dr. Ranganathan's work: Five Laws Statistics http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1220 Respectfully, Michael May dLIST Classics Editor --- Sukhdev Singh"

the initiative of making works of Dr. SR Ranganathan openly

accessible.

Somehow, I could find only First Chapter of Five Laws in dLIST. But I do hope that the work is under progress and would be completed soon.

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

On 10 Jul 2006 12:02:47 -0000, MichaelMay.10726764@bloglines.com wrote:

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The editors of dLIST, the Digital Library of Information Science & Technology, are pleased to announce that the dLIST Classics Project has received permission from the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) to provide open electronic access to the following works by S. R. Ranganathan:

Five Laws of Library Science, 1931. New Education and School Library, 1973. Philosophy of Library Classification, 1950. Prolegomena to Library Classification, 3rd

ed., 1967.

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Classification and Communication, 1951. Documentation: Genesis and Development, 1973. Documentation and Its Facets, 1963.

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Library Book Selection, 2nd ed., 1966. Reference Service, 2nd ed., 1961.

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972) was a pioneer in the field of Library and Information Science. S.R. Ranganathan's The Five Laws of Library Science, the main premise of which is "books are for use," is arguably the most influential work in LIS to date. A preliminary scan of the prefatory matter and first chapter from the original 1931 edition of S.R. Ranganathan's Five Laws is now available at dLIST:

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http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1220/

dLIST editors thank

the

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following individuals for making open access to S.R. Ranganathan's works possible: A. Neelameghan, K. N. Prasad, and K. S. Raghavan (SRELS, Bangalore, India, and Documentation Research & Training Centre, Bangalore), and S. Arunachalam, dLIST Advisory Board Member (MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India).

dLIST is a cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences. dLIST Classics is a new project that is making fundamental and leading Library and Information Science texts openly accessible in dLIST. For more information, please visit dLIST at:

http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/

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Michael May dLIST Classics Editor michael.p.may@earthlink.net