Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan was a librarian and mathematician from 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 the National Librarian Day in India.
S. R. Ranganathan's Portrait at City Central Library, Hyderabad, Chennai
Portrait of SR Ranganathan preserved in SKB Library of Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam. Which is a premier educational institute of Northeast India since 1901.
Ranganathan on a 1992 stamp of India
Library and information science
Library and information science (LIS) are two interconnected fields of study that deal generally with organization, access, collection, and regulation of information, whether in physical or digital forms.
The Library of Alexandria, an early library
Portrait of Gabriel Naudé, author of Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque (1627), later translated into English in 1661