Five Laws of Library Science Notes
The Five Laws of Library Science
were enunciated in 1928 by the late Dr. S. R.Ranganathan, the Librarian of the
University of Madras.
Five Laws of Library Science are:
Books are for use
Every reader
his/her book("Books for All".)
Every book its
reader
Save the time of
the reader
The library is a
growing organism
Implications
First Law "Books are for use "
--Location
--Library Hours
--Library Building
and Furniture
--Staff
Second Law "Every reader
his/her book"
--Obligation of
the State
--Obligation of
the Library Authority--(Choice of Books--Choice of Staff)
--Obligations of
the Staff
--Obligations of
the Reader
--Resource Sharing
Third Law “Every Book Its Reader”
- - Services---Book Exhibition, Display
of New Books,Lists of New Additions
- - The Library Catalogue
Fourth Law “Save the Time of the
Reader”
- - Open Access
- - Classification and Cataloguing
- - Charging System
Fifth Law "Library is a Growing
Organism"
- - Book Stock
- - Readers
- - Staff
- - Classification and the Catalogue
- - Modernisation
- - Provision for the Future
-- Weeding out of Books
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