Works of Dr. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (S.R. Ranganathan) need no
introduction. They are renowned not because they cover certain facet of library
and information science, but because they have been written by the father of
library science in india, Dr. Ranganathan. These library science classics have
been reprinted to make Dr. Ranganathan's work available to the current
generation of librarians and for those to come. The ideas contained in this book
form the foundation of subject classification and the book is S.R. Ranganathan s
magnum opus in that field. A most precise, theoretical, practical, and
comparative exposition of library classification theory ... intensely original.
It is not within