Thursday, August 15, 2024

Happy Independence Day 2024




The NCC Cadets of 2 PB Air Sqn NCC Battalion of PM SHRI K V No. 3 Pathankot, along with Vidyalaya, celebrated 78th Independence Day 2024.

On August 15, 2024, India celebrated its 78th Independence Day, a significant day commemorating the country's liberation from British colonial rule. This year's celebrations will have a renewed sense of purpose and aspiration as the country gets closer to realizing its dream of being a developed nation.
 

Monday, August 12, 2024

Happy Librarian Day 2024

Mathematician and librarian Siyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (S.R.R.) was an Indian national. His creation of the colon classification, the first significant faceted categorization system, and his five laws of library science are his most renowned contributions to the area. In India, he is revered as the founding father of library science, documentation, and information science, and his groundbreaking contributions to the discipline are well-known worldwide. In India, his birthday is commemorated as National Librarian's Day each year.

He taught library science and served as a university librarian at Banaras Hindu University from 1945 to 1947. From 1947 to 1955, he was a professor at the University of Delhi. His most recent position saw him appointed director of the first higher degree-granting Indian school of librarianship. From 1944 until 1953, he served as the Indian Library Association's president. In 1957, he was appointed vice-president of the Library Association of Great Britain for life and designated an honorary member of the International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID).