Raganathan's Five Laws Still Relevant to Libraries

S.R. Ranganathan, an Indian librarian who invented the Colon Classification System, also penned the Five Laws of Library Science:

• Books are for use.
• Every reader, his or her book.
• Every book, its reader.
• Save the time of the reader.
• A library is a growing organism.

These rules may seem simplistic but there is great meaning and wisdom behind them.