Top 6 Quotes by S. R. Ranganathan

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!

S. R. Ranganathan

Inspirational, Learning, Library

S. R. Ranganathan (2006). “The Five Laws of Library Science”, Ess Ess Publications

A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.

S. R. Ranganathan

Depressing, Book, Home

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

S. R. Ranganathan

Book, Law, Library