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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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