Tapan Kumar Pradhan
b. 1972writer
mathematician and librarian (1892–1972)
S. R. Ranganathan
1892–1972, born Sirkazhi, writes in English, Tamil, writer
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan was an Indian librarian and mathematician. S. R. Ranganathan is widely known as the “Father of Library Science in India.” His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major faceted classification system, the colon classification. He is considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India and is widely known throughout the rest of the world for his fundamental thinking in the field. His birthday is observed every year as National Librarian Day in India.
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Books on record
Indexing Theory, Indexing Methods and Search Devices1964Five laws of library scienceclassification scheme
On Open Library
Colon classification1892
The Five Laws of Library Science1931
Library administration1935
Prolegomena to library classification1937Editions Open Library lists under this name; a namesake may slip in.
Elsewhere
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Also writing in English
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