Events

Sr No Date Event
1 1440 Bibliothec Nationale, Pris (National Library, France)
2 1774 Rampur Raza Library, Uttar Pradesh
3 1800 Library of Congress, USA
4 1835 National Library of India
5 1848 National Diet Library, Japan
6 1862 State Lenin Library, Moscow
7 1876 American Library Association
8 1876 DDC by Melvil Dewey
9 1877 Library Association (UK) (Now Name Changed in 2002 as CILIP)
10 1879 Expansive Classification by CA Cutter
11 1890 Connemara Public Library
12 1891 Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library
13 1898 Library of Congress Subject Headings
14 1902 Library of Congress Classification
15 1906 Subject Classification by J D Brown
16 1908 AACR first published
17 1909 Special Library Association(SLA)
18 1912 National Library, Germany
19 1917 Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune
20 1923 Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH)
ASLIB - Association of Special Libraries and Information Beureaux
21 1926
(Presently Association of Information Management)
22 1933 ADINET
23 1933 India Library Association
24 1933 MALIBNET
25 1933 Colon Classification
26 1935 Bibliographic Classification by H E Bliss
27 1938 FID
28 1945 UNESCO
29 1955 IASLIC
30 1961 International Classification by F Rider
31 1962 DRTC, Bangalore
32 1966 MARC
33 1967 AACR-I
34 1967 Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC)
35 1972 International Book Year celebrated by UNESCO
The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto which was issued in 1949 got
36 1972
revived
37 1972 CCF
38 1972 RRRLF - Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation
39 1973 Social Science Citation Index
40 1974 International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)
41 1974 PRECIS
42 1974 Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN
43 1974 Science Citation Index
44 1974 Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC)
46 1974 ISBD
47 1974 Reearch Library Group (RLG)
48 1976 Universal Availability of Publications (UAP)
Universal Machine Readable Catalogue (UNIMARC) was developed by
50 1977
IFLA
51 1977 UNIMARC
52 1977 NICNET
53 1978 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules – II (AACR-II)
54 1978 Arts & Humanities Citation Index
55 1978 AACR-II
56 1980 Joint Academic Network (JANET)
57 1982 FID
58 1982 Open System Interconnection (OSI) Model
59 1985 CD-ROM was prepared and made
60 1985 CDS/ISIS
Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean
61 1986
(INFOLAC)
62 1986 ERNET
63 1986 CALIBNET
64 1988 Anglo American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition revised (AACR2 R)
65 1988 INFLIBNET
66 1990 Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) was first started in Singapore
67 1992 DELNET
Project MUSE, an online database of more than 200 journals from
68 1993
nonprofit publishers was launched
69 1994 Orbicom, the international network of UNESCO chairs in communications
70 1994 The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto was last revised
71 1995 Journal Storage (J-Store) was launched
72 1995 Origin of Dublin Core Metadata
73 1997 Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL)
74 1997 GreenStone
75 1997 Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL)
76 1998 China Academic Library & Information System
77 1998 China Academic Library & Information System
78 1999 Global Network for Education in Journalism
79 2000 EPrints Software
80 2000 KOHA Software
Chartered institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) was
81 2002
formed
82 2002 DSpace Software
83 2002 FID was dissolved
84 2007 ISBN changed from 10 digits to 13 digit
ASLIB was acquired by MCB group, the holding company for emerald
85 2010
group publishing
86 2011 DDC 23rd edition was published
87 1990-93 Curriculam development committee on LIS instituted