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Important Notes:- Michael Gorman Five New Laws of Librarianship and Open Source Software with the five laws

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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