‘God has chosen me as an Instrument, the
honor done to me should act as an incentive to the younger generation to
devote their lives wholeheartedly to library science and service’ – Dr. S. R. Ranganathan
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‘That one cannot properly
judge the work of S. R. Ranganathan without reference to the totality of
Librarianship’ – Jesse H.
Shera
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‘If there is any single
individual who merits being called a ‘one-man library movement’, certainly he
[Ranganathan] has earned that distinction through his accomplishments in
India’ - Jesse H.
Shera
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‘One of the immortals
of Library Science’ – K.G.B.
Bakewell
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Dr. S. R. Ranganathan
is ‘without question, one of the luminaries of library science’ and has had a
‘revolutionary impact on international classification theory’ – Eugene Garfield
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‘Prince among
Librarians’ – Sir Maurice
Gwyer
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‘Father of Library
Science in India’ – Sir
Maurice Gwyer
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American Library Association called him ‘World
Librarian’
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Summary of Events
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BIRTH & FAMILY LIFE
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1892
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Born
9 August at Shiyali (now, Sirkazhi) Tanjavoor District, Madras State (now,
TamilNadu).
Note: He was the
first child of his parents and the first grandchild of the grandparents both
paternal and maternal.
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1907
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Married
to Rukmini (1896-1928)
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1929
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Married
to Sarada (1908-1985)
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1932
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Blessed
with a son born on April 12, R. Yogeshwar (Engineer by Profession)
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EDUCATION
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1897-1908
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Schooling
from S. M. Hindu High School, Shiyali
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1909
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Matriculation
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1913
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B.
A. (Mathematics) Madras Christian College
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1916
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M.
A. (Mathematics) Madras Christian College
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1917
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Professional
Teaching Certificate from Teachers' College, Saidapet, Madras
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1924-1925
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EMPLOYMENT CAREER
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1917-1921
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Worked
as an Assistant Lecturer in Government College, Mangalore and Coimbatore
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1921
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Joined
the Presidency College, Madras as Assistant professor in Mathematics
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1924-1944
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Appointed
as the first University Librarian of University of Madras on 4th
January 1924
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1945-1947
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University
Librarian and Professor of Library Science, BHU, Varanasi
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HONORARY WORK
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1928-1933
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Lecturer
on school library work, Teachers' College, Saidapet, Madras
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1929-1944
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Professor
in Library Science, University of Madras, Madras
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1944
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Visiting
faculty on Library Classification, University of Bombay
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1945-1947
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Professor
in Library Science, BHU, Varanasi
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1947-1954
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Professor
in library science, University of Delhi, Delhi
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1956
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Visiting
lecturer of library schools, United Kingdom
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1957-1959
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Visiting professor in library science,
Vikram University, Ujjain
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1962
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Honorary Professor, DRTC, Bangalore
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1963
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Visiting lecturer of library schools,
University of Pittsburgh
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SUMMARY OF EVENTS/WRITINGS
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1924
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Designed the Colon Classification
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1927
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Local Secretary, All-India Public
Library Conference, Madras
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1928
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1929
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Started School of Librarianship at
Madras Library Association which was taken over by University of Madras in
1931
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1930
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1931
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1933
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Colon Classification (CC) first
published by Madras Library Association
1st ed. 1933
2nd ed. 1939
3rd ed. 1950
4th ed. 1952
5th ed. 1957
6th ed. 1960
6th rev. ed. 1963
7th ed. 1987 edited by M.
A. Gopinath, published by Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science
(SRELS)
Translated into Marathi (Dwibindu
Vargikarana Paddati) by R. S. Parkhi, 1957
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1934
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Classified Catalogue Code (CCC) first
published by Madras Library Association
1st ed. 1934
2nd ed. 1945
3rd ed. 1951
4th ed. 1958
5th ed. 1964 (Assisted by
A. Neelameghan)
Translated into Hindi (Anuvarga suchi
kalpa) by M. L. Nagar, 1953
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1935
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1937
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Published Prolegomena to Library Classification
1st ed. 1937
2nd ed. 1957
3rd ed. 1967
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1938
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Designed Chain Indexing that was first
mentioned in his book “Theory of
Library Catalogue” in 1938.
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1940
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Published Reference Service and Bibliography, 1st ed.
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1945
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1948
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1949
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President, Eighth All-India Library
Conference, Nagpur
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1950
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1951
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1952
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1954-1957
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1955
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Published Headings and Canons: Comparative Study of Five Catalogue Codes
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1957
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1959
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Chairman, Documentation Section,
Second Indian Standards Convention, Hyderabad
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1961
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1962
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1963
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1964
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1965
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Declared
national research professor by the Government of India
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1967
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Honorary
fellow, Indian Standards Institution
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1970
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Recipient
of Margaret Mann citation from American Library Association (ALA)
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1971
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Grand
knight of peace award, Mark Twain Society, USA.
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1972
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Died on 27th
September at the age of 81
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COMMITTEE WORK IN
INDIA
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1933-1935
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Member, Imperial Library Committee
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1947-1966
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Chairman,
Documentation (Sectional) Committee, Indian Standards Institution, New Delhi
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1948
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Member,
Committee on National Central Library
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1948-1951
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Member, National Library Committee
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1958-1960
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Chairman, Library Buildings, Fittings,
and Furniture Committee, Indian Standards Institution, New Delhi
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1958-1959
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Chairman, Library Committee,
University Grants Commission
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1960
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Chairman, Review Committee on Library
Science, University Grants Commission
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1961-1963
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Chairman, Committee to Draft the
Library Bill for Mysore State
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INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE WORK
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1948
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Member,
International Committee of Library Experts
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1949
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Coordinated
with UNESCO for the establishment of the Delhi Public Library
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1950
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Coordinated
with UNESCO for the establishment of INSDOC
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1951-1961
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Rapporteur-general,
FID/CA (Committee on General Theory of Classification of the International
Federation for Documentation)
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1951-1953
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Member,
International Advisory Committee on Bibliography of UNESCO
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1963
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Honorary
Chairman, FID/CR (Committee on Classification Research of the International
Federation for Documentation)
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WORKED WITH ASSOCIATIONS
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1916-1972
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Member,
Indian Mathematical Society
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1928-1953
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Founder-Secretary,
Madras Library Association
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1930-1933
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Member,
International Library Committee of the World Association for Adult Education
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1933-1972
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Member,
Indian Library Association (ILA)
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1937-1944
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Vice-President,
Indian Library Association
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1944-1953
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President,
Indian Library Association
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1949-1953
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Secretary,
Indian Adult Education Association
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1953-1957
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Vice-President,
Madras Library Association
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1958-1967
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President,
Madras Library Association
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1958
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1965-1972
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Vice-President,
Governing Council, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
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EDITOR OF PERIODICALS
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1937-1947
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Editorial
Board, Modern Librarian
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1949-1953
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Editor,
ABGILA, Indian Library Association.
The confluence of three journals (i.e. Annals, Bulletin and Granthalaya) took
place at the time of Dr. Ranganathan tenure as President of ILA (1944-1953)
and given a new acronym ABGILA, first published in 1949 and continued until
1953. In 1965, it was revived with a new title ‘Journal of Indian Library Association (JILA)’, published
Quarterly.
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1951
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Associate
Editor, Libri
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1954-1963
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Editor,
Annals of Library Science. INSDOC
launched ‘Annals of Library Science’
in 1954 and Dr. Ranganathan was its founder editor. In 1964, the journal
title was expanded to ‘Annals of
Library Science and Documentation’. The Journal title was renamed again as ‘Annals
of Library and Information Studies’ in 2001 and continues till today.
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1964-1972
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Editor, Library Science with a Slant to
Documentation. The Journal was founded by Dr. Ranganathan in 1964 and he
was the editor of this journal till his death in 1972. The Journal title was
changed to ‘Library Science with a
Slant to Documentation and Information Studies’ in 1988 and again to ‘SRELS Journal of Information Management’
in 2000.
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