It is a worlds renowned fact that Ranganathans Colon classification has been considered as a Classic. However it was not popularized in our own Indian libraries because the laymen and the students of LIS formed a opinion that it is difficult to understand. But in reality it is a most wonderful classification system which can adopt any new emerging discipline and quite suitable even to classify the information found in the Internet. Ranganathan combined his mathematical Knowlegge and divided the whole universe of subjects on the basis of five fundamental categories, which are similar to the five elements of Hindu mythology (Pancha Boothas-Agayum, Neer, Neruppu, Nilam, Vayu (Space, Water, Fire, Place, & Air). One cannot be oblivious of his acumen with which he modified the five elements as Personality, Matter, Energy, Time and Space. (PMEST). This book provides a simplified approach to the rules of Postulation Procedure of S.R. Ranganathan, and it will help the LIS students to have a better understanding of the great work, Colon Classification. The authors hope that this book may contribute a little, to revive the gradual entropy of Colon Classification from the Curriclum of LIS.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A. Bagavathi
Dr, A Bagavathi is completed her Ph.D. in Libray and Information Science, from University of Madras under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Manorama Srinath in the year 1999. She has worked as a Part-time faculty for Regular M.Sc. Students for a brief period in the Department of library and information Sciene, University of Madras and for Distance Education also . She got the best article award in the International Conference held in National Law University, Delhi, 2012.She has guiding a number of research scholars. She has conducted workshops and National Seminars.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Manorama Srinath
Prof. Manorama Srinath is the fiest Ph.D candidate in library science, in the University of Madras. Her teaching in library Science started in 1975 for certificate course. Later she was elevated to Professor post in the same department and retired in 2007 while she was heading the department, after completing thirty seven years of service in the University of Madras. National seminar and organized refresher course in Library Science, sponsored by the UGC. She conducted a major research project with the financial assistance provided by UG in 1990, and the project is entitled as 'Animal Encyclopedia for childern in Tamil: A hypertext document'. She has guided twenty five candidate for Ph.D programe. She is a recipient of IATLIS - Smt. N. Ratnalaxman Rao Best Women teacher award in 2001.
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