Revisiting Raganathan – A New OCLC Report
The five traditional tenets of librarianship get an overhaul.
Written by Senior Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Associate Research Scientist Ixchel Faniel, Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities suggests that Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science can be reordered and reinterpreted to reflect today’s library resources and services, as well as the behaviors that people demonstrate when engaging with them.
Although Lynn and Ixchel believe Ranganathan’s five laws are still relevant today, their intent is to help evolve both the work done by librarians and the perceptions of libraries and librarians. By changing how we think about the five laws in terms of interpretation and order of importance, Lynn and Ixchel hope to reflect the current resources and services available for use and the behaviors that people demonstrate when engaging with them.
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