International meeting for the 50th anniversary of the death of S.R. Ranganathan (1892-1972)

University of Pavia
Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage, Cremona
May 23rd, 2022

14.30 Welcome greetings

First session

15.00 PM
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan's "Library Tour" (1948): the construction of the Indian librarian self through a 'tour of the West'
Fiammetta Sabba, University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, Italy

15.20 PM
Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science in Pandemic Argentina
Ignacio Mancini, INIBI, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

15.40 PM
Document and Documentation in the universe of Ranganathan
María Arminda Damus, Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Argentina

16.00 PM
Ranganathan e the social role of Bibliography
Carlo Bianchini, University of Pavia, Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage (Cremona), Italy

16.20 PM
Between scientific communication and document science: Ranganathan and documentation in the 1950s and 1960s
Giulia Crippa, University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, Italy

16.40-16.50 Break

Second session

16.50 PM
Ranganathan and international library associations
Lucia Sardo, University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, Italy

17.10 PM
Ranganathan between philosophical and epistemological methods: the problem of Library Science "scientificity" in the 1930s
Gustavo Silva Saldanha, Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, Brasile

17.30 PM
Ranganathan’s Legacy and Implications of The Five Laws of Library Science on School Librarianship: An Explorative Study
Luisa Marquardt (University of Rome - Roma Tre, Italy) and Raj Kumar Bhardwaj (University of Delhi, India)

17.50 PM
Ranganathan in Italy and the friendship with Vittorio Camerani
Enrico Pio Ardolino, University of Rome Sapienza, Italy

18.10 PM
The reference service in Ranganathan's futuristic vision of librarianship
Elsa Margarita Ramírez Leyva, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México