Library and Information Science - Importance Notes for All Competitive Exams

• Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC) 1967

• Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN 1974

• Joint Academic Network (JANET)

• Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) 1997

• China Academic Library & Information System 1998

• NICNET 1977

• CALIBNET 1986

• ERNET 1986

• INFLIBNET 1988

• DELNET 1992

• ADINET 1993

• MALIBNET 1993

• MYLIBNET 1994

• UGC INFONET 2002

• HELINET 2003

• Asia and Pacific Information Network (APIN)

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

• Global Network for Education in Journalism 1999

• Orbicom 1994

• UNESCO Network for Associated Library (UNAL)

• UNISIST Programme 1971

• CDS/ISIS 1985

• WINISIS Distributed

• SOUL 2000

• GREENSTONE 1997

• DSPACE 2002

• KOHA 2000

• NEWGENLIB 2007

• EPRINTS 2000

• Relational Indexing- J.E.L.Farradane 1950

• Coats Subject Indexing- E.J. Coats 1963

• PRECIS-Derek Austin 1974

• POPSI- G. Bhattacharya 1964

• Kaisers systematic Indexing 1911

• UNITERM- Martimer Taube 1953

• Science Citation Index 1974

• Social Science Citation Index 1973

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1978

• Roget’s Thesaurus 1852

• Andhra Pradesh Library Association, 1914

• Maharashtra Library Association, 1921

• Bengal Library Association, 1925

• Madras Library Association, 1928

• Karnataka Library Association, 1929

• Punjab Library Association, 1929

• Samastha Kerala Pustakalaya Samiti, 1931

• Bihar Library Association, 1936

• Assam Library Association, 1938

• Utkal Library Association, 1944

• Kerala Library Association, 1945

• Hyderabad Library Association, 1951

• U.P.Library Association, 1951

• Delhi Library Association, 1953

• Gujarat library Association, 1953

• Madhya Bharat Library Association, 1957

• Gomantak Library Association, 1961

• Rajasthan Library Association, 1962

• Jammu & Kashmir Library Association, 1966

• Tripura Library Association, 1967

• Manipur Library Association, 1987

• Mizoram Library Association, 1987

• Meghalaya Library Association, 1994

• Nagaland Library Association, 1996

• A&I - Abstracting and Indexing

• UNESCO 1945 

• India Library Association 1933

• IASLIC 1955

• RRRLF 1972

• DDC by Melvil Dewey 1876

• Expansive Classification by C.A. Cutter- 1879

• Library of Congress Classification 1902

• Subject Classification by J. D. Brown 1906

• Colon Classification 1933

• Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss 1935

• International Classification by F. Rider 1961.

• CRG – Classification Research Group

• DRTC, Bangalore 1962

• Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation 1972

• Connemara Public Library 1890

• Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library 1891

• Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune 1917

• Rampur Raza Library, Uttar Pradesh 1774

• State Lenin Library, Moscow 1862

• National Library of India- 1835

• Bibliothec Nationale, Pris (National Library, France) 1440

• National Diet Library, Japan 1948

• National Library, Germany 1912

• Library of Congress, USA 1800

• Library Association (UK)-1877 now Known as Chartered institute of Library and

• Information Professionals (From 2002) 1877 (now name changed in 2002 as CILIP)

• American Library Association- 1876

• Association of Special Libraries and Information Beureaux –ASLIB 1926

• IFLA-1927 

• UBC-1974

• UAP-1976

• Special Library Association(SLA) 1909

• FID 1982

• Library of Congress Subject Headings 1898

• Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH) 1923

• AACR first published 1908

• MARC 1966

• AACR-I 1967

• CCF 1972

• ISBD 1974

• UNIMARC 1977

• AACR-II 1978