Libary and Information Science Chronology

Useful For UGC NET June Exam 2012

1792--Bibliothec Nationale, Paris (National Library of France)
1800--Library of Congress, the natiional and parliamentary library of the USA was established.
1836--Calcutta Public Library(India) was opened to the public.
1837 (14 March)-- Birth of C.A. Cutter in Boston
1848--Boston Public Library Act
1850 (14 August)--First Library act at National Level in the world, United Kingtom
1851 (10 Dec)--Birth of Melvil Dewey in Adams Centre, near Water town, New York
1852--Roget's Thesaurus
1862--State Lenin Library, Moscow, Russia
1862 (6 Nov)-- Birth of James Duff Brown in Edinburgh.
1870(20 Jan)--H.E. Bliss, The creator of Bibliographic Classification was born. Considered to be one of the Greatest Classificationist produced by the USA
1876--Dewey Decimal Classification devised by Melvil Dewey
1876--formation of American Library Association (ALA), the oldest library association in the world.
1877 (5 Oct)--Library Association (UK) was founded.
1879--Expansive Classification by C.A. Cutter
1887--Melwil Dewey founded the First School for Librarianship in the world at Columbia
1891--Imperial Library, Calcutta (India)
1892 (9 Aug)-- Birth of  Dr. S.R. Ranganathan in Shiyali, Tanjore District of Madras State. But in Official Records, 12th of August has came into use as his Date of Birth.
1898--Library of Congress Subject Headings
1901--Library of Congress Shared Cataloguing service
1902--Library of Congress Classification
1905-First edition of the Universal Decimal Classification was published
1906--Subject Classification by J. D. Brown
1908--Anglo American Code
1909-Special Libraries Association (SLA) was formed, Special librarians in the field of  chemistry are the first professionals to specialize in chemical information science
1911-- Kaisers systematic Indexing
1912--National Library of Germany
1914 (10 April)--The first Conference of the Andhra Desa Librarians was held at Bezawada (Vijayawada) which resulted in the formation of the first library assocation in India. i.e. The Andhra Desa Library Association.
1915--Adams Report (U.K)
1923--Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH)
1924--Mitchell and Kenyon Report
1924 (4th Jan)--Dr.S.R. Ranganathan took charge of the Madras University Library is Librarian.
1924--Indian Library Journal was first Library Journal in English published in India
1926 -Association of Special Libraries and Information
Beureaux (ASLIB)
1927-International Federation of Library Associatons (IFLA) was established
1931-- Madras University was the first University that started full time Diploma course in Library Science in India
1933--Colon Classification by Dr. S.r. Ranganathan
1933(13, September)--Indian Library Association(ILA) was formed at the First All India Library Conference at Calcutta.
1933--First All India Library Conference at Calcutta (India)
1935--Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss
1939 (10 March)--The Delhi Library Association was formed.
1942--McColvin Report (U.K)
1946-- Establishment of UNESCO.
1948--Government of India changed the name of the Imperial Library to the National Library, with the enactment of the Imperial Library (Change of Name) Act, 1948
1948 (25 Nov)--First Public Library Act (Madras, Tamil Nadu) Passed in India
1948--National Diet Library, Japan
1948 (7 March)-- Dr. S.R. Ranganathan was conferred with the Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the Governor-General of India, Lord Mountbatten the then Chancellor of the University of Delhi.
1948--University of Delhi was first university in India that provided the facilities for conducting Masters Degree (M.Lib. Sc.) and Ph.D
1950--Relational Indexing by J.E.L.Farradane
1950 (4 Jan)-- The first issue of the British Natiional Bibliography (BNB) was brought out.
1951 (27 Oct)-- Inauguration of the Delhi Public Library (DPL) by late Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.
1952 (24 March)--Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC) was set up in New Delhi by Govt. of India with the help from UNESCO
1953--The National Library of India is opened for Public
1953-UNITERM by Martimer Taube
1955-Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) was founded at  Kolkata (India)
1955--Post-Coordinate Indexing UNITERM by  Martimer Taube
1957 (29)--Padmasri was awarded to Dr. S.R. Ranganathan by the President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
1957-- First International Study Conference on Classification was held at Dorking (England)
1959--Robert Report (U.K)
1961--International Classification by F. Rider
1962 (18 Aug)-- DRTC, Bangalore was inauguratd by Dr. C.D. Deshmukh.
1963--Coats Subject Indexing by E.J. Coats
1964--Public Library and Museum Act
1964--UGC-UK (Parry Committee Report)
1964--POPSI by G. Bhattacharya
1965 (22 April)--The Mysore Public Libraries Act came into effect.
1966--MARC
1967--AACR-I
1967--Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC)
1971--UNISIST Program
1972--Common Communication Format (CCF)
1972 (22 May)--Establishment of Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation at Kolkata (India)
1972 (27 Sep)--Dr. S.R. Ranganathan breathed his last at Bangalore.
1972--INPADOC (International Patensts Documentations Centre, Vienna) was founded on agreement between the Republic of Austria and WIPO
1973 (2 July)--The British Library was established in London
1973--Social Science Citation Index
1974--ISBD
1974-Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC)
1974--Science Citation Index
1974--Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN
1974--PRECIS by Derek Austin
1976-UAP
1977--UNIMARC
1978--AACR-II
1978--Arts & Humanities Citation Index
1982 -FID
1985--Library Management Software and Digital Library Software CDS/ISIS
1992- Cetenary Year of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan
1993--Project Muse
1995--J-Store was launched
1995--Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community
1997--Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL)
1997--Greenstone Digital Library Software, produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, New Zealand
1998--China Academic Library & Information System
1998--WINISIS Distributed in 1995, Version 1.31 launched in November
1999--KOHA, Open Source Integrated Library Management System (ILMS) by Liblime
2000--Software for University Library(SOUL) by INFLIBNET (India)
2000--EPRINTS a Open source Digital Library Software by University of Southampton (School of Electronics and Computer Science)
2001--J-Gate
2001--OAI-PMH version 1.0 was Launched at Washington
2002--DSPACE, Open Repositories Software by MIT and HP labs, United States
2005--NEWGENLIB, Open Source Integrated Library Management Software by Verus Solutions Pvt Ltd (Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management in Hyderabad, India)