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Thanks to Steve Abram’s blog for a quite deliciously concise translation by Peter Binkley of Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan’s Five LawsRanganathan, S. R. (1957). The five laws of library science. London: Blunt and Sons, Ltd. The implications of Ranganathan’s work continue to be explored in the world of Web 2.0.

Libri utendi.
Omni libro lector.
Omni lectori liber.
Otium lectoris servandum.
Virescat biblioteca

So elegant in its simplicity

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  1. Simon Fodden
    February 13th, 2006 at 6:05 pm

    I do like it better in Latin, but then I was once made to read Winnie Ille Pu.

    In case others (who are non-librarians) took algebra instead of Latin when the opportunity presented itself:

    1. Books are for use.
    2. Every reader his or her book.
    3. Every book its reader.
    4. Save the time of the reader.
    5. The Library is a growing organism.