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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on December 10, 2013 at 23:00

Thanks Dear Dr. Jain.

I presume it is World wide gradation.

Indian gradation may be of somewhat different (delayed) timeline.

I would like to add some inputs which are essentially my personal opinion!!

As I can recall, the NISSAT was established in early 80's (under Mr. Thyagarajan's) and the free distribution of CDS/ISIS s/w started from late 80's or early 90's .

The NIC too was established in early 80's (in a pink coloured building; unfortunately I can't remember the name of the Building nstantly!!) & shifted to CGO Complex in 1985-86; The Indian MEDLARS Centre or ICMR-NIC Centre for Biomedical Information started functioning from 1986. The first training on Library s/w however was on MINI/ISIS the IDRC product

 As such, the Third Generation of Library Services in India basically started from late 80's or early 90's (However, the first ever training course in India on Online searching of Bibliographical databases was probably the one that was organized by ICMR in April 1984 and the online connection was made through Telephone line!!)

The first full text clustered electronic journals, as I can remember had been ADONIS a product of Elsevier available in CDs.with monthly updates which started from 1990 and that began a new era of what we called Online Journals.

Later (post 1990) the abstract databases like MEDline, CA, BA also  used to come in CDs. Only soft versions of "Current Contents" the flagship product of ISI  started  with Diskette which in short, called CCOD and later shifted to CDs (called CCCD)

Since I was personally associated with the above activities either as a participant &/or a service provider , they still have a lasting impression on my mind.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by Manjunath K S on December 11, 2013 at 19:15

            Yes sir if include your suggestions it very nice.

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Permalink Reply by Sanjay Singh on December 11, 2013 at 5:26

बहुत अच्छा सर हमारे पास पूरी हिस्ट्री है . लाइब्रेरी और डॉक्यूमेंटेशन सिस्टम्स की

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Permalink Reply by Dr.Tuhina Choudhury DebRoy on December 11, 2013 at 18:27

Well defined Sir. According to me the 5th generation of library services has fulfilled Dr. Ranganathan's five laws of library science to the fullest extent.

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Permalink Reply by Alka Babariya on December 11, 2013 at 18:37

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Permalink Reply by Dr. N K Pachauri on December 11, 2013 at 19:07

very good sir

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Permalink Reply by Yagyadutta dixitsharma on December 11, 2013 at 22:08

very nice sir

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Permalink Reply by K. anand on December 12, 2013 at 1:17

well done ....sir

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Permalink Reply by SUMAN SINGH on December 12, 2013 at 2:22

Thanks sir,
For this valuable information.

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Permalink Reply by SOFIA ALVERA on December 15, 2013 at 7:43

hello sir 

thanks to informing me for different Gen. of Library.

m from Lucknow, I have done my MLISc from AMU .

Thanks 

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Permalink Reply by VIVEKANAND JAIN on December 15, 2013 at 20:46

Thanks to all who replied / respond to "Five Generations of Library Services in India.
V. Jain

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