Librarian’s Day: At the 9th Indian Association of
Special Libraries and Information Centre (IASLIC) seminar held at Nagpur (1980) initiative
were made to form JOint Council of Library Association of India (JOCLAI). In
the JOCLAI meeting held at Jaipur during the seventeenth conference in 1989 it
was decided to observe the birth day of Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, the
father of Library Science in India
as Librarians Day all over the country every year. So considering this, 12th
August, which was the birthday of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan has been assign as
librarian’s day. At Kolkata since 1990, a day long Programme purely
professional is held every year not necessarily on 12th August but
on Sunday following the date. This is as because librarianship is a service
profession so the user cannot be disappointed on working days in the name of
the profession itself. This is what librarianship is.
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