4. Five laws of library science with digital library
A digital library is the infrastructure, policies and procedures, and organizational, political and economic
mechanisms necessary to enable access to and preservation of digital content. In some instances a digital
library may be a new entity, but in most cases it will be the electronic or digital face of a traditional library
and its activities will be embedded within current and evolving service structures.
Ranganathan (1999) [8] uses his five law to drive the classification and management of printed information.
He started the classic five laws of library science as a sprit behind architecting and managing the libraries. We
shall attempt to arrive at frameworks and structures that will help as build future digital information systems.
The same five laws of library science may be rephrased as given below with somewhat different relative
emphasis to guide us in architecting managing digital information systems of the 21st century:
(1) Digital resources are for use.
(2) Every user seeks digital resource.
(3) Every digital resources needs it’s user.
(4) Save the time of the user.
(5) Digital library is a growing organism worldwide.