Professor Pauline Atherton, who came to be known to Indian librarian through her scholarly review of Dr. Ranganathan’s Classified Catalogue Code in the American periodical Library Resources and Technical Services, Interprets in this book, Ranganathan’s five laws of library science in a comprehensive and a scientific way. She also deals with such important topics as library education, library use, system evaluation and improvements in the principles and practices of cataloguing and classification based on assistance from computers and empirical research. The book also discusses the application of the five Laws in library and information work and reviews critically, the prevailing cataloguing practices. It also provides the information on the emergence of the Five Laws.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pauline A. Atherton
Pauline A. Atherton Cochrane is Professor Emerita from both Syracuse University and the University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been a researcher, teacher, consultant, writer and critic of subject access techniques in indexes, library catalogs, and other retrieval systems for over 50 years, having received her MA in Library Science from Rosary College (now Dominican University)in 1954. Some of her writings on these subjects have been gathered in a book entitled "Redesign of Catalogs and Indexes for Improved Online Subject Access". During her career she has been involved in a number of major research projects and consulting including: Indexing of The World Book Encyclopedia during its major revision in 1960, American Institute of Physics Documentation Research Project, Leep, audacious, Supars and SAP (Subject Access Project) research at Syracuse during the 1970s, Consulting at the Library of Congress, OCLC, and NLM in the 1980s and 1990s, Participated in teh Digital Library Initiative at the University of Illinois in the 1990s. Honours include: A festschrift to honor her 70th birthday, The Asist Annual Award of Merit, The FID-CR Ranganathan award.
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