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CHRONOLOGY OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
SCIENCE
21st CENTURY
2000 SOUL
2000 KOHA
2000 EPRINTS
2002 DSPACE
2002 UGC INFONET
2002 Gujarat Public Libraries Act
2002 Orissa Public Library Act
2003 HELINET
2005 Rajasthan Public Library Act
2005 Uttar Pradesh Public Library Act
2005 Uttrakhand Public Library Act
2007 Pondicherry Public Library Act
2007 NEWGENLIB
20th CENTURY
1901 Library of Congress Shared Cataloguing service
1902 Library of Congress Classification
1905 First edition of the Universal Decimal Classification is published (Emard, 1976).
1906 Subject Classification by J. D. Brown
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1906 Paul Otlet (Belgium) proposes the use of standardized microfiche for
documentation work (Buckland, 1996).
1908 AACR first published
1909 Special Library Association(SLA)
1911 Kaisers systematic Indexing
1912 National Library, Germany
1915 Adams Report
1917 Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune
1918 Sarasvati Mahal Library
1923 Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH)
1924 Mitchell & Kenyon Report
1926 Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux –ASLIB
1929 IFLA
1933 Colon Classification
1933 India Library Association
1935 Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss
1942 McColvin Report
1945 UNESCO
1947 National Medical Library, New Delhi
1948 National Diet Library, Japan
1948 Tamil Nadu Public Libraries Act.
1950 Relational Indexing- J.E.L.Farradane
1951 Delhi Public Library
1952 Roget’s Thesaurus
1953 UNITERM- Martimer Taube
1955 IASLIC
1956 1st General library Law
1957 FORTRAN
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1959 Robert Report
1960 Andhra Pradesh Public Library Act.
1961 International Classification by F. Rider
1962 DRTC, Bangalore
1963 Coats Subject Indexing- E.J. Coats
1964 POPSI- G. Bhattacharya
1964 Public Library and Museum Act (U.K.)
1964 UGC-UK (Parry Committee Report)
1965 Karnataka Public Library Act
1966 MARC
1967 Maharashtra Public Library Act
1967 AACR-I
1967 Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC)
1969 UNIX
1971 UNISIST Programme
1972 CCF
1972 RRRLF
1972 C
1973 Social Science Citation Index
1974 PRECIS-Derek Austin
1974 ISBD
1974 Science Citations Index
1974 Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN
1974 UBC ( Universal Bibliographical Control)
1976 UAP (Universal Availability of Publication)
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1977 UNIMARC
1977 NICNET
1978 Arts & Humanities Citation Index
1978 AACR-II
1979 West Bengal Public Library Act
1979 Kerala Public Library Act
1982 FID
1982 MS-DOS
1983 C++
1985 WINDOWS
1985 CDS/ISIS
1986 CALIBNET
1986 ERNET
1986 Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean (INFOLAC)
1988 INFLIBNET
1988 Manipur Public Library Act
1989 Haryana Public Library Act
1991 LINUX
1991 VB
1992 DELNET
1993 ADINET
1993 MALIBNET
1993 Mizoram Public Library Act
1993 Goa Public Library Act
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1994 JAVA
1994 MYLIBNET
1994 Orbicom
1995 WINISIS
1995 JAVA SCRIPT
1995 PHP
1997 GREENSTONE
1997 Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL)
1998 China Academic Library & Information System
1999 Global Network for Education in Journalism
19th CENTURY
1800 Library of Congress established
1801 Joseph Marie Jacquard (France) invents a punched card system to control
operations of the cloth weaving loom. First use of "memory storage of patterns"
system (Reichman, 1961).
1804 Asiatic Society Library, Mumbai started
1822 Charles Babbage develops his "difference engine," the first step towards the
modern computer.
1834 Babbage designs his "analytical engine."
1835 National Library of India , Kolkata started
1841 The Chemical Society of London is established.
1848 Boston Public Library Act
1850 1st Library act ant National Level in the world- 14 August (U.K.)
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1854 George Boole publishes his An Investigation into Laws of Thought..., which lays
the foundations for Boolean algebra, which is later used in information retrieval
(Smith, 1993).
1862 State Lenin Library, Moscow
1876 DDC by Melvil Dewey
1879 Expansive Classification by C.A. Cutter
1876 American Library Association
1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
The American Library Association (ALA) is founded in Philadelphia.
American Chemical Society (ACS) is formed in New York City. First
proceedings are published in the following year.
1877 Library Association (UK) - now known as Chartered institute of Library
and Information Professionals (From 2002)
1890 Connemara Public Library
1891 Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library
1895 Paul Otlet and Henri LaFontaine found the International Institute of Bibliography
(IIB) (Rayward, "International Federation," 1994).
18th CENTURY
1774 Rampur Raza Library, Uttar Pradesh
1778 Chemisches Journal, thought to be the first chemical journal, is established by
Lorenz von Crell. Published 1778-84, subsequently renamed Chemische Annalen
and published 1784-1803. It already included some abstracts (Skolnik,
"Milestones," 1976).
17th CENTURY and below
1665 The Royal Society (London) published the first issues of Philosophical
Transactions, generally considered the first scientific journal.
1440 Bibliothec Nationale, Paris (National Library, France)
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