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    National Librarian Day is celebrated annually on August 12th to commemorate the 131st birthday of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan, a pioneering Indian librarian and scholar. Some of Ranganathan's most notable accomplishments include devising the Universal Decimal Classification system and the Five Laws of Library Science, which provide principles for the profession. He worked to improve public library systems in India and helped establish the nation's first public library act. Ranganathan made significant contributions during his tenure as librarian at the Madras University Library, establishing it as a model for academic libraries worldwide.

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    National Librarian Day is celebrated annually on August 12th to commemorate the 131st birthday of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan, a pioneering Indian librarian and scholar. Some of Ranganathan's most notable accomplishments include devising the Universal Decimal Classification system and the Five Laws of Library Science, which provide principles for the profession. He worked to improve public library systems in India and helped establish the nation's first public library act. Ranganathan made significant contributions during his tenure as librarian at the Madras University Library, establishing it as a model for academic libraries worldwide.

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    National Librarian Day is celebrated annually on August 12th to commemorate the 131st birthday of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan, a pioneering Indian librarian and scholar. Some of Ranganathan's most notable accomplishments include devising the Universal Decimal Classification system and the Five Laws of Library Science, which provide principles for the profession. He worked to improve public library systems in India and helped establish the nation's first public library act. Ranganathan made significant contributions during his tenure as librarian at the Madras University Library, establishing it as a model for academic libraries worldwide.

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    National Librarian Day - 131th Birth anniversary of Dr. S. R.

    Ranganathan is celebrated on
    12/8/2023
    131th National Library Day Celebration

     Ranganathan, born on 12th August 1892, came from a moderate background in British-
    ruled India. He was born in the small town of Shiyali (now known as Sirkazhi), in the
    state of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
     Ranganathan passed Matriculation examination in 1908 in First Class. He completed the
    junior intermediate at the Madras Christian College in March 1909. Later, Ranganathan
    passed B.A. with a first class in 1913, and he did his Master's degree in 1916 from
    Madras Christian College in his home province.
     He began his teaching career as an Assistant Lecturer of Mathematics in the Government
    College in Mangalore in 1917. He was successively a member of the mathematics
    faculties at universities in Mangalore, Coimbatore and Madras (all within the span of five
    years). As a mathematics professor, he published a handful of papers, mostly on the
    history of mathematics.
     In 1924 Ranganathan joined as a librarian in Madras University. Later Ranganathan left
    for England in September 1924 and returned in July 1925.
     After coming from UK, he was heading the Madras University Library and devised a
    universal fame Colon Classification, Classified Catalogue Code and published a book
    titled Prolegomena towards Library Information Science which still known as the Bible
    of the Library Classification and Cataloguing schemes followed in all the libraries.
     Ranganathan worked meticulously with his coworkers to uplift the Indian public Library
    System and made it as open access system for common man and enacted First Tamil
    Nadu Public Library Act in the year 1948. And this paved the way for other State
    Governments of India to follow and enact the Library Act in their state.
     By recognizing his noble works for the profession, he had been honoured
    with Padmashri Award by the Government of India in the year 1957.
     He pinned Five Laws of Library Science during his tenure in the Madras University
    Library which are the Grammar for the profession of Librarianship. They are globally
    accepted and followed by all types of the Libraries in our Mother Earth.
     Since his appointment in the Madras University Library in 1924 he achieved many feat
    and laurels to the profession one among them was the establishment of DRTC in
    Bangalore in the year 1962, and he was associated with this earlier up to his death in the
    year 1972.
     Because of his contribution to the profession as Madras University Librarian, the Great
    Mother University Library achieved the status of role model for all the University
    Libraries as well as this Library considered as one of the renowned Library by the
    academic and research community of the globe.

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