Chronologically

1948 Tamil Nadu (Madras) Public Libraries Act, 1948;

1960 Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad) Public Libraries Act, 1960

1965 Karnataka (Mysore) Public Libraries Act, 1965;

1967 Maharashtra Public Libraries Act, 1967;

1979 West Bengal Public Libraries Act, 1979.

1988 Manipur Public Libraries Act, 1988;

1989 Haryana Public Libraries Act, 1989;

1989 Kerala Public Libraries Act, 1989;

1993 Goa Public Libraries Act, 1993;

1993 Mizoram Public Libraries Act, 1993;

2001 Gujarat Public Libraries Act, 2001;

2001 Orissa Public Libraries Act, 2001;

2005 Uttar Pradesh Public Libraries Act, 2005;

2005 Uttarakhand (Uttaranchal) Public Libraries Act, 2005 and

2006 Rajasthan Public Libraries Act, 2006;

2007 Bihar Public Libraries Act, 2007;

2007 Chattisgarh Public Libraries Act, 2007;

2007 Pondichery Public Libraries Act, 2007;

2009 Arunachal Pradesh Public Libraries Act, 2009;

Chronology of Library and Information Science

NET SET Examination Chronology of Library and Information Science 1
NET SET Examination
Chronology of Library and Information Science
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Development in Libraries (United Kingdom)
1st Library act ant National Level in the world- 14 August 1850
Public Library and Museum Act-1964
UGC-UK (Parry Committee Report)-1964
Various Reports
1) Adams Report-1915
2) Mitchell & Kenyon Report-1924
3) McColvin Report-1942
4) Robert Report-1959
Development in Libraries (United States of America)
Pioneer of Social Libraries- Benjamin Franklin
Boston Public Library Act-1848
1st General library Law-1956
Library of Congress-1800
Library of Congress Shared Cataloguing service-1901
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National Libraries of the worlds
State Lenin Library, Moscow 1862
National Library of India- 1835
Bibliothec Nationale, Pris (National Library, France) 1440
National Diet Library, Japan 1948
National Library, Germany 1912
Library of Congress, USA 1800
Library Associations World and India
Library Association (UK)-1877 now Known as
Chartered institute of Library and Information
Professionals (From 2002)
1877 (now name
changed in 2002 as
CILIP)
American Library Association- 1876
Association of Special Libraries and Information
Beureaux -ASLIB
1926
IFLA-1929 1929
UBC-1974, UAP-1976
Special Library Association(SLA) 1909
FID 1982
UNESCO 1945
India Library Association 1933
IASLIC 1955
RRRLF 1972
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Library Classification
DDC by Melvil Dewey 1876
Expansive Classification by C.A. Cutter- 1879
Library of Congress Classification 1902
Subject Classification by J. D. Brown 1906
Colon Classification 1933
Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss 1935
International Classification by F. Rider 1961.
Cataloguing and Bibliographic Description Standards, Subject
Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings 1898
Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH) 1923
AACR first published 1908
MARC 1966
AACR-I 1967
CCF 1972
ISBD 1974
UNIMARC 1977
AACR-II 1978
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Indian States Library Acts
No. State Name Nature of Law Year
1. Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras)
Public Libraries Act.
library cess (10%) on property
tax.
1948
2. Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries
Act.
library cess (8%) on lands and
buildings;
1960
3. Karnataka Karnataka Public Library Act
library cess (6%) on lands,
buildings, vehicles and
profession.
1965
4. Maharashtra Maharashtra Public Libraries Act No library cess 1967
5. West Bengal West Bengal Public Libraries Act No library cess 1979
6. Manipur Manipur Public Libraries Act No library cess 1988
7. Kerala Kerala Public Libraries Act
library cess (5%) on property tax
and not less than 1% of State
expenditure on education.
1989
8. Haryana Haryana Public Libraries Act Local bodies to levy cess 1989
9. Mizoram Mizoram Public Libraries Act No library cess 1993
10. Goa Goa Public Libraries Act
Surcharge on IFML @ 0.50 ps.
Per ltr. And 0.50
1993
11. Gujarat Gujarat Public Libraries Act No library cess 2002
12 Orissa Orissa Public Library Act No library cess 2002
13 Rajasthan 2005
14 Uttar Pradesh 2005
15 Uttrakhand 2005
16 Pondichery 2007/2008
Source: http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s8/annual/cr02-in.htm And
http://publiclibraryindia.blogspot.com/2009/07/states-of-india-those-passedpublic.
html
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Library Networks –World
Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC) 1967
Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN 1974
Joint Academic Network (JANET)
Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) 1997
China Academic Library & Information System 1998
Australian Academic & Research Library Network
Library Networks –India
NICNET 1977
CALIBNET 1986
ERNET 1986
INFLIBNET 1988
DELNE 1992
ADINET 1993
MALIBNET 1993
MYLIBNET 1994
UGC INFONET 2002
HELINET 2003
UNESCO Contributions (Library Networks)
Asia and Pacific Information Network (APIN)
Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean
(INFOLAC)
1986
Global Network for Education in Journalism 1999
Orbicom 1994
UNESCO Network for Associated Library (UNAL)
UNISIST Programme 1971
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Library Related Software
Library Management Software and Digital Library Software
Operating Systems
CDS/ISIS 1985
WINISIS Distributed in 1995, Version 1.31 launched in November 1998.
SOUL 2000
GREENSTONE 1997
DSPACE 2002
KOHA 2000
NEWGENLIB 2007
EPRINTS 2000
UNIX 1969
LINUX 1991
MS-DOS 1982
WINDOWS 1985
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Programming Languages
FORTRAN 1957
PASCAL
COBOL
JAVA 1994
VB 1991
C 1972
C++ 1983
VB .NET
JAVA SCRIPT 1995
AJAX
PHP 1995
HTML
XML
MS-SQL
MySQL
PostGreSQL
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Indexing
Pre-Coordinate Indexing
1 Kaisers systematic Indexing 1911
2 Chain Indexing
3 Relational Indexing- J.E.L.Farradane 1950
4 Coats Subject Indexing- E.J. Coats 1963
5 PRECIS-Derek Austin 1974
6 POPSI- G. Bhattacharya 1964
Post-Coordinate Indexing
1 UNITERM- Martimer Taube 1953
Year of Pub.
Science Citation Index 1974
Social Science Citation Index 1973
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1978
Thesaurus
1 Roget’s Thesaurus 1852
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Scopus Abstract and citation database of research literature
J-Store (1995) Journal Storage
Emeralds Full text Journal Publishers
Science Direct full-text scientific database
ERIC Education Resources Information Center, is the world's largest digital
library of education literature
J-Gate (2001) J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature
Project MUSE (1993) Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers
EBSCO Reference Databases
Pubmed citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE
IndMed A Bibliographic Database of Indian Biomedical Literature is an
indexing of medical and other biomedical journals from India not
cover in Medline
INIS The INIS Database, contains over 3 million bibliographic records
LISA Library and Information Science Abstracts is an international
abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and
other information specialists
Genamics JournalSeek Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database
of freely available journal information available on the internet. The
database presently contains 95320 titles. Journal information includes
the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal
homepage link, subject category and ISSN.
Econlit The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography,
EconLit, indexes more than thirty years of economics literature from
around the world. Compiled and abstracted in an easily searchable
format, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books,
book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and
dissertations
REPEC Research Papers in economics. Collaborative volunteer effort to
enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The database
contains information on more than 585,000 items
OCLC Worldcat A global catalog of library collections.
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Libraries & LIS Training in India
National Library of India
Delhi Public Library 1951
DRTC, Bangalore 1962
Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation 1972
Connemara Public Library 1890
Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library 1891
Asiatic Society Library, Mumbai
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune 1917
Rampur Raza Library, Uttar Pradesh 1774
Sarasvati Mahal Library 1918 (Became public Library)