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Year Wise Development of Library and Information Science in the World

1440: Bibliothec Nationale, Paris (National Library, France).1800: Library of Congress, USA.1810: American Patent Law.1841: Henri Fayol was born.1850: First library act was enacted in Great Britain.1852: British Patent Law.1852: Roget’s Thesaurus.1856: Frederick Winslow Taylor was born.1861: Henry Laurence Gantt was born.1862: State Lenin Library, Moscow.1864: Max Weber was born.1876: Cutter’s Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue.1876: American Library Association (ALA).1876: Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) by Melvil Dewey.1876: First Journal of Librarianship was published.1877: Library Association (LA), UK was formed.1879: Expansive Classification by C. A. Cutter.1886: Berne convention was adopted.1891: Lyndall Urwick was born.1895: Browne charging system started.1898: Library of Congress Subject Headings.1902: Library of Congress Classification.1905: The first edition of Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) was published.1906: Subject Classification by J. D. Brown.1906: Douglas McGregor was born.1908: Catalog Rules: Author and Title Entries. (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) first published)1908: Abraham Maslow was born.1909: Special Library Association (SLA).1909: Peter Drucker was born.1911: Kaisers systematic Indexing.1912: National Library, Germany.1917: David McClelland was born.1923: Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH).1923: Frederick Herzberg was born.1926: Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureau (ASLIB).1929: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

1931: International Institute of Documentation was established.1931: Melville Dewey Passed away.1932: Electrically operated book charging system firstly introduced.1934: Headquarter of International Federation of Documentation (FID) was shifted from Brussels to The Hague.1935: Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss.1937: International Institute of Documentation changed to International Federation of Documentation.1939: Henry Mintzberg was born.1945: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).1948: Bradford formulated the law of scatter.1948: National Diet Library, Japan.1949: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto first issued.1950: Relational Indexing.1951: The Wheat loan Educational Exchange Programme.1952: Universal Copyright Conventions.1953: UNITERM.1954: Peter F. Drucker defined Management by Objectives (MBO).1957: System analysis has been used first by H. Khan and Mann of RAND Corporation.1958: Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was developed.1961: International Conference on Cataloging Principles, Paris.1961: International Classification by F. Rider.1963: Coats Subject Indexing.1964: POPSI.1966: Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC).1967: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - I (AACR-I).1967: Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC) project completed.1967: World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) was established by the WIPO Convention.1967: Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC).1969: The term "Bibliometrics" was coined by Alan Pritchard. 1970: The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) organized its annual meeting around the theme “the information conscious society”.1970: Zero Base Budgeting system was first prepared.1971: International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).1971: UNISIST Programme.1971: Berne Convention and Universal Copyright Convention was revised in Paris.1972: Common Communication Format (CCF).1972: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) took up the “Universal Availability of Publication” program.1972: International Book Year celebrated by UNESCO.1972: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto which was issued in 1949 got revived.1973: Social Science Citation Index.1974: International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).1974: Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN1974: Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC).

1974: PRECIS.1974: Science Citation Index.1976: Universal Availability of Publications (UAP).1977: Universal Machine Readable Catalogue (UNIMARC) was developed by IFLA.1978: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - II (AACR-II).1978: Arts & Humanities Citation Index.1982: FID.1982: Open System Interconnection (OSI) Model.1985: CD-ROM was prepared and made.1985: CDS/ISIS.1986: Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean (INFOLAC).1988: Anglo American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition revised (AACR2 R)1990: Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) was first started in Singapore.1990-93: Curriculam development committee on LIS instituted1993: Project MUSE, an online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers was launched.1994: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto was last revised.1994: Orbicom, the international network of UNESCO chairs in communications.1995: Journal Storage (J-Store) was launched.1995: Origin of Dublin Core Metadata.1997: Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL).1997: GreenStone.1998: China Academic Library & Information System.1999: Global Network for Education in Journalism.2000: EPrints Software.2000: KOHA Software.2002: Chartered institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) was formed.2002: DSpace Software.2002: FID was dissolved.2007: ISBN changed from 10 digits to 13 digit.2010: ASLIB was acquired by MCB group, the holding company for emerald group publishing.2011: DDC 23rd edition was published.

Year Wise Development of Library and Information Science in India

1774: Rampur Raza Library, Uttar Pradesh.1808: Funds for the encouragement of literature.1835: National Library of India. 1856: Intellectual Property Right Act. 1867: The Press and Registration of books Act was enacted. 1890: Connemara Public Library. 

1891: Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library. 1910: A. W. Borden start a refresher course for librarians in India. 1911: The Design Act.1914: The Andhra Desa Library Association was founded.1914: Andhra Pradesh Library Association.1917: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune.1918: Sarasvati Mahal Library.1921: Maharashtra Library Association.1925: Bengal Library Association.1928: Madras Library Association.1929: Punjab Library Association.1929: Karnataka Library Association.1931: ‘Five Laws of Library Science’ was first published.1931: Samastha Kerala Pustakalaya Samiti.1933: Colon Classification (CC) was first published. 1933: India Library Association (ILA).1936: Bihar Library Association.1938: Assam Library Association.1944: Utkal Library Association.1945: Kerala Library Association.1947: Indian National Bibliography first appeared.1947: National Medical Library, New Delhi.1948: Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras) Public Libraries Act. 1951: Delhi Public Library.1951: National Library of India.1951: Uttar Pradesh Library Association.1951: Hyderabad Library Association.1953: Gujarat Library Association.1953: Delhi Library Association.1954: The Delivery of Books (Public Libraries) Act was passed. 1955: Hyderabad public libraries Act. 1955: Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centre (IASLIC) was founded.1956: Delivery of Books (Public Libraries Act) 1954 was amended.1957: Indian Library Association (ILA) became the member of International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). 1957: Indian National Bibliography (INB) first appeared.1957: Madhya Bharat Library Association.1958: First Ph.D in the Library and Information Science in India. 1960: Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries Act.1961: Gomantak Library Association.1962: Rajasthan Library Association.1962: Dr. S. R. Ranganathan was appointed as a National research professor of Library science. 1962: Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore. 1965: Karnataka Public Library Act.1966: Jammu & Kashmir Library Association.1967: Maharashtra Public Libraries Act.

1867: The Press and Registration of books Act Enacted.1967: Tripura Library Association.1972: Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF) was established.1977: NICNET1979: West Bengal Public Libraries Act. 1985: Committee On Library and Information Science (CONPOLIS India) was set up.1986: ERNET.1986: National Information Policy. 1986: CALIBNET.1987: Mizoram Library Association.1987: Manipur Library Association.1988: Manipur Public Libraries Act.1988: INFLIBNET.1989: Haryana Public Libraries Act. 1989: Kerala Public Libraries Act.1992: DELNET.1993: Goa Public Libraries Act.1993: MALIBNET.1993: ADINET.1993: Mizoram Public Libraries Act 1993: UGC Curriculum Development Committee.1994: MYLIBNET.1994: Meghalaya Library Association.1996: Nagaland Library Association.2000: Information Technology Act.2000: SOUL Software.2001: J-Gate, an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature. 2002: UGC INFONET.2002: Gujarat Public Libraries Act.2002: Orissa Public Library Act.2003: HELINET.2005: Uttaranchal Public Libraries Act. 2006: Rajasthan Public Libraries Act.2006: Uttar Pradesh Library Act.2007: National Knowledge Commission on Libraries.2007: NEWGENLIB.2011: International Standard Book Number (ISBN) allocation office in India shifted from Kolkatta to Delhi.