LIS Notes for Competitive Examinations 8: Year Wise Development of Library and Information Science in the World

1440: Bibliothec Nationale, Paris (National Library, France).

1800: Library of Congress, USA.

1810: American Patent Law.

1850: First library act was enacted in Great Britain.

1852: British Patent Law.

1852: Roget’s Thesaurus.

1862: State Lenin Library, Moscow.

1876: Cutter’s Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue.

1876: American Library Association (ALA).

1876: Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) by Melvil Dewey.

1876: First Journal of Librarianship was published.

1877: Library Association (LA), UK was formed.

1879: Expansive Classification by C. A. Cutter.

1886: Berne convention was adopted.

1895: Browne charging system.

1898: Library of Congress Subject Headings.

1904: Library of Congress Classification.

1905: The first edition of Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) was published.

1906: Subject Classification by J. D. Brown.

1908: Author and Title Entries. (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) first published.

1909: Special Library Association (SLA).

1911: Kaisers systematic Indexing.

1912: National Library, Germany.

1923: Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH).

1924: Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureau (ASLIB).

1927: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

1931: International Institute of Documentation was established.

1931: Melville Dewey Passed away.

1932: Electrically operated book charging system firstly introduced.

1934: Headquarter of International Federation of Documentation (FID) was shifted from Brussels to The Hague.

1935: Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss.

1937: International Institute of Documentation changed to International Federation of Documentation.0

1945: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

1948: Bradford formulated the law of scattering.

1948: National Diet Library, Japan.

1949: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto first issued.

1950: Relational Indexing.

1951: The Wheat loan Educational Exchange Programme.

1952: Universal Copyright Conventions.

1953: UNITERM Indexing.

1954: Peter F. Drucker defined Management by Objectives (MBO).

1957: System analysis has been used first by H. Khan and Mann of RAND Corporation.

1958: Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was developed.

1961: International Conference on Cataloging Principles, Paris.

1961: International Classification by F. Rider.

1963: Coats Subject Indexing.

1964: POPSI.

1966: Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC).

1967: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules – I (AACR-I).

1967: Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC) project completed.

1967: World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) was established by the WIPO Convention.

1967: Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC).

1969: The term “Bibliometrics” was coined by Alan Pritchard.

1970: The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) organized its annual meeting around the theme “the information conscious society”.

1970: Zero Base Budgeting system was first prepared.

1971: International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).

1971: UNISIST Programme.

1971: Berne Convention and Universal Copyright Convention was revised in Paris.

1972: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) took up the “Universal Availability of Publication” program.

1972: International Book Year celebrated by UNESCO.

1972: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto which was issued in 1949 got revised.

1973: Social Science Citation Index.

1974: International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).

1974: Research Library Group (RLG)

1974: Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC).

1974: PRECIS.

1974: Science Citation Index.

1976: Universal Availability of Publications (UAP).

1977: Universal Machine Readable Catalogue (UNIMARC) was developed by IFLA.

1978: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules – II (AACR-II).

1978: Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

1984: Open System Interconnection (OSI) Model.

1984: Common Communication Format (CCF).

1985: CD-ROM was prepared and made.

1985: CDS/ISIS.

1986: Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean (INFOLAC).

1988: Anglo American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition revised (AACR2 R)

1990: Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) was first started in Singapore.

1993: Project MUSE, an online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers was launched.

1994: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto revised second time.

1994: Orbicom, the international network of UNESCO chairs in communications.

1995: Journal Storage (J-Store) was launched.

1995: Origin of Dublin Core Metadata.

1997: Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL).

1997: GreenStone digital library softwear.

1998: China Academic Library & Information System.

1999: Global Network for Education in Journalism.

2000: EPrints Software.

2000: KOHA Software.

2002: Chartered institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) was formed.

2002: DSpace Software.

2002: FID  was dissolved.

2007: ISBN changed from 10 digits to 13 digit.

2010: ASLIB was acquired by MCB group, the holding company for emerald group publishing.

2011: DDC 23rd edition was published

2012: DDC Abridged edition -15 was published.