Computer retrieval as seen through the pages of Journal of Documentation

This paper will contrast the broad contours of Ranganathan’s legacy in North America with a general assessment of contemporary North American facet applications. It will also offer a potential model for contemporary researchers that outlines heritage facet-analytical protocols currently in use.

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The Heritage of Facet Analysis in North America: Past Lessons as Pathways for Contemporary Exploration

Extending Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan in the 21st Century: Social Justice Laws of Librarianship

This chapter describes the emphasis on organization and efficiency that resulted from the rise of nation-states and international commercial competition during the latter part of the nineteenth century and how this impacted the growth of science and technical knowledge and the operations of libraries, especially advances in bibliographic cooperation and indexing technologies. 

Progress, Public

This chapter traces the actualities and possibilities of representing social justice and social equity concerns in LIS via extending Ranganathan's five laws of librarianship within today's contemporary neoliberal and geopolitical realities. Blinders in librarianship are identified in its resistance to intentional, systematic, action-oriented, community-engaged, and impact-driven strategies of social justice and real change owing to its White-IST (white + elitist) roots. These are speculated in relation to the profession's undervaluing of Ranganathan's contributions because of his South Asian (i.e., East Indian) origins as a result of the pedestalizing of its Anglo/Eurocentric components within the legacies of a colonized and imperialistic world order. A manifesto of social justice laws of librarianship is proposed to address past and recent lapses in LIS. 

Extending Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan in the 21st Century

Summary: Team‐work needed by modern research; need for division of labour and externalized memory; emergence of the library profession in relation to recalling memory and of the profession of the data‐specialist in relation to correlating memory; differences in the function and training of the two professions; factors which militate against their being distinguished; the need for both professions to have a common classification technique with special reference to punched cards and similar machinery for search.

J.W. Perry

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External memory and research