Michael Gorman has reinterpreted Ranganathan’s laws in the context of today’s library and its likely future, and reformulated them calling them as [Gorman’s] “Five New Laws of Librarianship”.
They are:
1) Libraries serve humanity;
2) Respect all forms by which knowledge is communicated;
3) Use technology intelligently to enhance service;
4) Protect free access to knowledge; and
5) Honour the past and create the future.
Recognising Ranganathan’s five laws of library science and their underlying concepts as powerful inspirations for social change, Mentor Cana [2003], analysed the “Open Source Software”, as defined by Open Source Initiative (OSI) and its congruency with the five laws
1) Software is for use
2) Every user his / her software (or software for all)
3) Every software its user
4) Save the time of the user
5) A Software Library is a growing organism
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