Awards BY LA UK

Awards BY LA UK 

This association also distributes awards to recognise excellence and outstanding performance in the library field. Some of them are: 

(a) Carnegie Medal for best children’s book,

(b) Kate Greenway Medal for best illustrated children’s book, 

(c) Wheatley Medal for outstanding index, 

(d) Besterman Medal for outstanding bibliography, 

(e) McColvin Medal for best reference work.

Principles of Facet Sequence: Ranganathan formulated four principles of Facet Sequence, viz

1) Wall-Picture Principle 

2) Whole-Organ Principle 

3) Cow-Calf Principle 

4) Act  Action-Actor-Tool Principle 

These principles guide us in deciding the sequence of facets, which may appear in a compound subject.

DRTC (India) Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) 

It was founded in India in 1962 at Bangalore with the efforts made by Dr. Ranganathan. 

👉Basically this centre was founded to develop documentation activities and programmes in the country, but provisions were also made in its aims to work in other fields of library science also, such as classification, cataloguing, formation of subjects, schedules of classification, documentation, etc. 

👉Dr. Neelamegham and Dr. Seetharam were also engaged in research with Dr. Ranganathan at the centre.

MEDLARS — MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System 

👉The National Library of Medicine of USA has been providing traditional network services in the libraries of the country since 1880 and also has been publishing an international index named 

👉Index Medicus, a biggest printed index of the articles of the research periodicals in the field of medical sciences and its related subjects.

👉But in 1964 a bibliographical database was made as a method by changing the formation of Index Medicus which is called MEDLARS, whose full form is MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System.

👉MEDLARS is a computer aided indexing service. It was developed in 1968 for online search and in 1972 MEDLARS was established in the form of MEDLINE as a national service in the USA.

👉In the first stage its scope was not so wide as it was in MEDLARS, but since 1977 the scope of the MEDLINE service has become equal to earlier.

NKN 

👉Application Areas The application areas envisaged under the National Knowledge Network cover: 1. Agriculture 2. Education 3. Health 4. e-governance 5. Grid Computing (High Performance Computing)

👉The objective of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) is to interconnect all institutions of higher learning and research with a high speed data communication network to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaborative research 

👉The government approved the project on the Establishment of National Knowledge Network in March, 2010 with an outlay of Rs. 5990 Cr. over a period of 10 years. 

👉National Informatics Centre (NIC) is the implementing agency 😱🦊