Dr. S. R. Ranganathan was an important component of India's library as it is today. He was an advocate of incorporating the Dewey Decimal system and created the Colon Classification system in 1933. His classification system is used worldwide and has had an affect on the way other systems, including Dewey, classify information. He also deviced the method of chain indexing for subject-indexing.He started a Library school in Madras in 1929 teaching both old (Dewey) and new (Colon) classification schemes.
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