devadason francis — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:45:38 GMT

My guru Dr.Ranganathan not only designed the Colon Classification he also contributed (wrote books on) almost all aspects of librarianship of that time. Edition 15 of Dewey Decimal in two volumes was about 3500 pages, but the colon classification Edition 5 (only the schedules part) was only 128 pages and could construct class numbers to all those provided in the DDC 15 as well as much more. He wrote books on “Book Selection”, “Library Administration” (which could all be transformed in to flow charts), :Cataloging “Classified Catalogue Code with Additional Rules for Dictionary Catalogue”, “Reference Service”, “Documentation” – the forerunner to the current so called knowledge management, Planning of Libraries, of course his monumental “Prolegomena to Library Classification” (three editions), and much more. He also developed a system of indexing called “Chain Indexing”. A small write-up “Ranganathan had SEVEN Facets and not FIVE : Facet Analysis and Semantic Web” is available at <http://www.geocities.com/devadason.geo/FASEMWEB.html> I would appreciate you views. You can ask me anything about Ranganathan I have recently immigrated (legally) to USA. F.J. Devadason

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