S r ranganathan biography books
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In the Introduction to this book (of about pages), S.R. Ranganathan, the renowned Librarian of the Madras University, who introduced the colon system - for classification of books and periodicals - in Library Science, reveals his role [VI, p.9] in the first biographical notices on Ramanujan, which appeared in the Collected Papers [III]:
In , it was decided that a biography of Ramanujan should be given at the beginning of his Collected Papers. The University of Madras appointed a Committee to write the biography. It consisted of E.M. MacPhail, the Vice-Chancellor, P.V. Seshu Ayyar, Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Presidency College and Secretary of the Indian Mathematical Society, and R. Ramachandra Rao, Education Secretary of the Government of Madras and former President of the Society. As a junior member of the staff of the Department of Mathematics of the Presidency College, it fell to my share to prepare a draft of the biography. As Approved bygd th
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Books by S.R. Ranganathan
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The fem Laws of Library Science
Colon Classification
Classified Cataloguing Code
Prolegomena to Library Classification
Prolegomena to Library Classification (2nd ed.)
Prolegomena to Library Classification (3rd Ed.)
Classification and Communication
Documentation: Genesis and Development
Documentation and its facets
Reference Service
Library Book Selection
Library Book Selection (2nd ed.)
Philosophy of Library Classification
Library Administration
Library Manual
Ramanujan: The man and the mathematician
Suggestion for the organization of the Libraries in India
Heading and Canons
A Librarian Looks Back: An autobiography of Dr. S. R. Rangnathan (Editor: P. N. Kaula)
Colon Classification (1 " ed.)
Colon Classification (2nd ed.)
Colo
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Author : Ranganathan Yogeshwar
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ISBN : X
About the book:
This is the biography of an Indian who became an international authority on Library Science and Library Movement and was the Father of Library Science. He invented tools to store information. His ideas address the very foundations of the business of effective information storage and retrieval. He spread the concept of public libraries even in remote villages. Ranganathan's personal life is a synthesis between Indian culture and modern science
This is a very interesting biography on the life and times of S R Ranganathan who changed the ideas of library science in India and gave it a new direction. The author is his only son who saw and observed him from close quarters and was inspired by him. He has written the biography in a fascinating and lucid manner, about his own childhood, his father's participation, ideas, thoughts, habits and the like. Actually