Year Wise Development of Library and Information Science in the World and India Year Wise Development of Library and Information Science in the World and India

440: Bibliothec Nationale, Paris (National Library, France). 1774: Rampur Raza Library, Uttar Pradesh. 1800: Library of Congress, USA.

1808: Funds for the encouragement of literature. 1810: American Patent Law. 1835: National Library of India.

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.

1856: Intellectual Property Right Act (India).

1861: Henry Laurence Gantt was born.

1862: State Lenin Library, Moscow.

1864: Max Weber was born.

1867: The Press and Registration of books Act Enacted.

1867: The Press and Registration of books Act was enacted (India).

1876: American Library Association (ALA) was established.

1876: Cutter’s Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue.

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.

1985: CDS/ISIS software.

1886: Berne convention was adopted.

1890: Connemara Public Library.

1891: Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library.

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: Douglas McGregor was born.

1906: Subject Classification by J. D. Brown.

1908: Abraham Maslow was born.

1908: Catalog Rules: Author and Title Entries. (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

(AACR) first published)

1909: Peter Drucker was born.

1909: Special Library Association (SLA).

1910: A. W. Borden start a refresher course for librarians in India.

1911: Kaisers systematic Indexing.

1911: The Design Act.

1912: National Library, Germany.

1914: Andhra Pradesh Library Association.

1914: The Andhra Desa Library Association was founded.

1917: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune.

1917: David McClelland was born.

1918: Sarasvati Mahal Library.

1921: Maharashtra Library Association.

1923: Frederick Herzberg was born.

1923: Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH).

1925: Bengal Library Association.

1926: Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureau (ASLIB).

1928: Madras Library Association.

1929: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

1929: Karnataka Library Association.

1929: Punjab Library Association.

1931: ‘Five Laws of Library Science’ was first published.

1931: International Institute of Documentation was established.

1931: Melville Dewey Passed away.

1931: Samastha Kerala Pustakalaya Samiti.

1932: Electrically operated book charging system firstly introduced.

1933: Colon Classification (CC) was first published.

1933: India Library Association (ILA).

1934: Headquarter of International Federation of Documentation (FID) was shifted from

Brussels to The Hague.

1935: Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss.

1936: Bihar Library Association.

1937: International Institute of Documentation changed to International Federation of

Documentation.

1938: Assam Library Association.

1939: Henry Mintzberg was born.

1944: Utkal Library Association.

1945: Kerala Library Association.

1945: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

1947: Indian National Bibliography first appeared.

1947: National Medical Library, New Delhi.

1948: Bradford formulated the law of scatter.

1948: National Diet Library, Japan.

1948: Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras) Public Libraries Act.

1949: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto first issued.

1950: Relational Indexing.

1951: Delhi Public Library.

1951: Hyderabad Library Association.

1951: National Library of India.

1951: The Wheat loan Educational Exchange Programme.

1951: Uttar Pradesh Library Association.

1952: Universal Copyright Conventions.

1953: Delhi Library Association.

1953: Gujarat Library Association.

1953: UNITERM.

1954: Peter F. Drucker defined Management by Objectives (MBO).

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.

1957: System analysis has been used first by H. Khan and Mann of RAND Corporation.

1958: First Ph.D in the Library and Information Science in India.

1958: Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was developed.

1960: Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries Act.

1961: Gomantak Library Association.

1961: International Classification by F. Rider.

1961: International Conference on Cataloging Principles, Paris.

1962: Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore.

1962: Dr. S. R. Ranganathan was appointed as a National research professor of Library

science.

1962: Rajasthan Library Association.

1963: Coats Subject Indexing.

1964: POPSI.

1965: Karnataka Public Library Act.

1966: Jammu & Kashmir Library Association.

1966: Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC).

1967: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - I (AACR-I).

1967: Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC) project completed.

1967: Maharashtra Public Libraries Act.

1967: Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC).

1967: Tripura Library Association.

1967: World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) was established by the WIPO

Convention.

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: Berne Convention and Universal Copyright Convention was revised in Paris.

1971: International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).

1971: UNISIST Programme.

1972: Common Communication Format (CCF).

1972: International Book Year celebrated by UNESCO.

1972: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) took up the

“Universal Availability of Publication” program.

1972: Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF) was established.

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: PRECIS.

1974: Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN

1974: Science Citation Index.

1974: Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC).

1976: Universal Availability of Publications (UAP).

1977: NICNET

1977: NICNET.

1977: Universal Machine Readable Catalogue (UNIMARC) was developed by IFLA.

1978: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - II (AACR-II).

1978: Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

1979: West Bengal Public Libraries Act.

1982: FID.

1982: Open System Interconnection (OSI) Model.

1985: CD-ROM was prepared and made.

1985: CDS/ISIS.

1985: Committee On Library and Information Science (CONPOLIS India) was set up.

1986: CALIBNET.

1986: CALIBNET.

1986: ERNET.

1986: ERNET.

1986: Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean (INFOLAC).

1986: National Information Policy.

1987: Manipur Library Association.

1987: Mizoram Library Association.

1988: Anglo American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition revised (AACR2 R)

1988: INFLIBNET.

1988: INFLIBNET.

1988: Manipur Public Libraries Act.

1989: Haryana Public Libraries Act.

1989: Kerala Public Libraries Act.

1990: Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) was first started in Singapore.

1990-93: Curriculam development committee on LIS instituted

1992: DELNET.

1992: DELNET.

1993: ADINET.

1993: ADINET.

1993: Goa Public Libraries Act.

1993: MALIBNET.

1993: MALIBNET.

1993: Mizoram Public Libraries Act

1993: Project MUSE, an online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit

publishers was launched.

1993: UGC Curriculum Development Committee.

1994: Meghalaya Library Association.

1994: MYLIBNET.

1994: MYLIBNET.

1994: Orbicom, the international network of UNESCO chairs in communications.

1994: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto was last revised.

1995: Journal Storage (J-Store) was launched.

1995: Origin of Dublin Core Metadata.

1996: Nagaland Library Association.

1997: Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL).

1997: GreenStone.

1997: Joint Academic Network (JANET)

1998: China Academic Library & Information System.

1999: Global Network for Education in Journalism.

2000: EPrints Software.

2000: Information Technology Act.

2000: KOHA Software.

2000: SOUL Software.

2001: J-Gate, an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature.

2002: Chartered institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) was formed.

2002: DSpace Software.

2002: FID was dissolved.

2002: Gujarat Public Libraries Act.

2002: Orissa Public Library Act.

2002: UGC- INFONET.

2003: HELINET.

2005: Uttaranchal Public Libraries Act.

2006: Rajasthan Public Libraries Act.

2006: Uttar Pradesh Library Act.

2007: ISBN changed from 10 digits to 13 digit.

2007: National Knowledge Commission on Libraries.

2007: NEWGENLIB.

2010: ASLIB was acquired by MCB group, the holding company for emerald group

publishing.

2011: DDC 23rd edition was published.

2011: International Standard Book Number (ISBN) allocation office in India shifted from

Kolkatta to Delhi.