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.