The present book on "Prolegomena to the Universe of Knowledge" is written
keeping in view the difficulties generally students of MLIS face in the paper of
the universe of Knowledge and those who feel that the paper on the Universe of
Knowledge is quite tough, hard ad less securing in their examination conducted
by various Indian Universities either as a regular student or students perusing
MLIS through correspondence/distance education. In the present book an effort is
made to interweave each concept systematically, philosophically and
scientifically a very simple and lucid style. There are many books available in
the market authored by very learned scholars and we do not claim that our book
is the best as UK is an ocean of knowledge and no one can claim to be the master
of all concepts or chapters dealt in the book. But whatever problems and
difficulties we had faced during our student life we had tried to solve them as
authors. We assure our readers that this book if studied systematically and
scientifically, might fetch them very good marks in their examinations leading
to MLIS degree. It corers the syllabi of all the important Indian Universities
teaching this subject to their students.
Preface
Introduction
1.Knowledge: A Conceptual Framework
2. Knowledge's Structure/Classification
3. Formation of Subjects
4. Development, Attributes and Formation of Subjects
5. Mapping of Universe of Subjects in Various Classification Schemes
6. Philosophy: its contributions to Knowledge
7. Relegion: Its Contributions to Knowledge
8. Science: Its Contributions to Knowledge
9. Social Sciences: Its Contribution To Knowledge
10. Appendix
11. Bibliography
Suresh C. Sinha (born on 09.07.1937) holds the M. A. in Sociology, and M.A.
(Honors) in Sociology, M. L. I. Sc. and Associateship in information science
form INSDOC, Delhi. He is a retired Library Officer E-I, Central for Industrial
Relations and Human Resources, New Delhi during 1971-2 and at D.B.S. (PG)
College, Dehradun during 1965-66. He was deputed to the Republic of Somalia
(East Africa) under as ITEC Expert to re-establish the library of National
University of Somalia, Mogadishu (East Africa) from 21st July 1982 to 22nd June
1984. He is a life member of IASLIC (Calcutta), ILA (New Delhi) and UPLA
(Lucknow). He has over two dozen papers and three books to his credits is the
field of Library and Information Science. At present, he is the Counselor of
Library Science at Hardware Chapter of UP Rajrishi Tandon Open University
Allahabad .
Dr. Anil Kumar Dhiman (born in 1965) holds M.A., M.Sc., M.L.I.Se., B.Ed.,
P.G.D.C.A., and Ph.D degree in Botany. He is a Fellow of Society of Ethno
botanists (FES) and Fellow of United Writers' Association (FUWAI). He is also
the life member of various professional association, viz., ILA (Delhi), IASLIC
(Calcutta), IATLIS, UPLA, ULA, APSI, IBS and SEB (Lucknow). At present, he is
working in the University Library at Gurukul Kangri University, Hardware.
Besides, he is also rendering his services Training Centre, Roorkee since 1994
and as Counsellor for Library Science at Hardware Chapter of UP Rajrishi Tandon
Open University, Allahabad since 2000. He has four dozen papers and four books
to his credits in the field of Library & Information Science and Botany. He has
been awarded with APSI Young Scientist Award and Gold Medal for the year 1999
and also nominated for 'International Scholar of Twentieth Century Award' by the
American Organization of Intellectuals Inc., USA.
