[WEB4LIB] RE: Ranganathan - off-topic digression

[Bill Manson]

Not to be confused with Sturgeon's Law "90% of everything is, er, crud."

Bill Manson
Executive Director
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
123 Tewksbury Street
Andover, MA 01810
voice:  978 475 7115   fax 978 475 7179




----- Original Message -----
From: <Heidi.Yelk at courts.state.wi.us>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 9:49 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Ranganathan - off-topic digression


> I graduated from UW-Milwaukee in 1995 and Raganathan was indeed part of
the
> course work.  The Five Laws of Library Science were taught along with
> another rule - my favorite - the 80/20 rule which seems to have a strange
> hold on most aspects of our world.  I thought we called it Truswell's(sp?)
> Rule but a quick search only finds "Pareto's Principle." ??
> Books are for use!
> Heidi
>
> Heidi A. Yelk - Reference Librarian
> Wisconsin State Law Library
> 608/261-7555
> heidi.yelk at courts.state.wi.us
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julia Schult [mailto:jschult at elmira.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 8:24 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Ranganathan - off-topic digression
>
>
>
> I asked our newest librarian, fresh out of SUNY Albany, if
> she'd ever heard of Ranganathan, and her first thought was
> that I was approaching her about a new religion.  ;-)  No,
> they didn't cover him or as far as she remembers even
> mention him in library school.
>
> For anyone who is curious, see
>
> http://www.uniroma1.it/Mathematics/I-Ranganathan.html
>
> He was a great librarian, and influenced the history of the
> profession.  I think it is a shame if library schools are no
> longer touching on his Five Laws of Library Science, which
> can be found at:
>
>
http://www.ala.org/editions/openstacks/insidethecovers/insideexcerpts1A.html
>
> ---Julia E. Schult
> Access/Electronic Services Librarian
> Elmira College
> Jschult at elmira.edu