Anil Menon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:10:57 GMT

Ref: “S.R. Ranganathan was the greatest librarian of the 20th Century. No one else even comes close.”

Hmmm. A bit too sweeping perhaps. That knocks out Melvil Dewey, Archibald Macleish, Jorge Louis Borges and other philosopher-librarians. Ranganathan was a book fiend alright, but he was also bit of a crack. I’d say his five laws are about as useful for library science as the three laws of robotics are useful for automotive engineering.

But I enjoyed the facet stuff. Some of the design patterns stuff, popular in object oriented programming, might be especially useful.

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