1- National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC) was established in 1970 as a Division of the ICSSR with the objective to provide library and information support services to researchers in social sciences.

2- INSSPEL (Indian Social Science Periodical Literature) database is developed by NASSDOC.

3- UGC-INFONET has been set up by UGC and ERNET India, Scientific Society and the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

4- Inter library resource centre was establish in 1975 by NASSDOC in JNU New Delhi.

5- INFLIBNET has developed SOUL (Software for University Libraries) software to facilitate automation of housekeeping operations of participating libraries.

6- The Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), established in 1962 by Prof. S. R. Ranganathan is an internationally recognized centre for advanced training and research in Library and Information Science.

7- DRTC is a unit under the Computers and Communication Science Division of the Indian Statistical Institute. DRTC unit is located at the Bengaluru centre of the institute.

8- Professor P. C. Mahalanobis, the founder Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, and his solid confidence in such services to the budding Indian economy are credited with the creation of the DRTC, according to Dr SR Ranganathan.

9- Documentation: Genesis and Development (1972) is written by Dr. SR Ranganathan.

10- Library Science with a slant to documentation is published by DRTC.

11- National Union Catalogue of Scientific Serials in India (NUCSSI) is the first indigenous database that serves as an ideal tool to access Journal holdings information. Journals are the main source of Science and Technology information.

12- Indian Library Association was founded in 1933 at Calcutta. It is a registered society, with headquarters now located at Delhi.

13- The Canadian Library Association (CLA) was founded in Hamilton, Ontario in 1946, and was incorporated under the Companies Act on November 26, 1947.Freda Farrell Waldon was its first president.

14- The Special Libraries Association (SLA) traces its beginnings to July 1909, when a group of 20 librarians gathered at the Mt. Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods

15- John Cotton Dana (1856-1929) was the founder and first president (1909-1911) of SLA.

16- In 1979, SLA created the John Cotton Dana Award to recognize selected information professionals for a lifetime of achievement as well as exceptional service to special librarianship.

17- In 1959, SLA published “Special Library Association-Its First Fifty Years, 1909-1959”.

18- The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) was established at a meeting in Chicago in December 1932, by the directors of 42 major university and research libraries.

19- S.R. Ranganathan  2^nd Edition of Five laws of library science (1957) added a chapter entitled “Spiral of Scientific Method” to silence or convince the skeptics of the scientific nature of library science discipline.

20- Correct order of “Spiral of Scientific Method” as propounded by Dr SR Ranganathan is Empirical- Hypothesizing- Deductive- Verification.

21- Library consortium is an association of two or more libraries formed to work together toward achieving a chosen goal such as resource sharing. Consortium libraries often pool resources for joint purchase of e-journals and share them for access and delivery online.

22- The “Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology (INDEST) Consortium” was set up in 2003 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).

23- INDEST Consortium was re-named as INDEST-AICTE Consortium in December 2005.

24- IIT Delhi has been designated as the INDEST Consortium Headquarters to coordinate its activities.

25- INDEST consortium is merged in e-Shodh Sindhu from December 2015.

26- INDEST consortium is also a member of International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC).

27- International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) is an informal, self-organized group currently comprising approximately 200 library consortia in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa.

28- IAP is an International Advocacy Program started by IFLA

29- Society of College, National & University Libraries (SCONUL) is an organization for academic & national libraries in the UK & Ireland & founded in 1950. The Seven Pillars of Information Literacy are Identify, Scope, Plan, Gather, Evaluate, Manage, and Present.

 30- Dr. S R Ranganathan, a member of the committee drafted a Library Development plan in 1950 with a 30-year programme and a draft Library Bill for the states and Union Public Library Act.

31- Gregory Bateson defined "information as a difference that makes a difference".

32- Article 246 of Indian constitution based on issues of library.

33- “How the information world connects” tagline is given by NISO

34- Library of Congress classification (LCC) scheme, divides all knowledge into 21 basic classes, each identified by a single letter of the alphabet.

35- Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is a system of library classification developed by the Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine.

36- CRG (Classification Research Group) was formed in London in 1952.

37- DRTC was established in Bangalore in 1962 by S.R. Ranganathan.

38- International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) was founded at Frankfurt, Germany, in 1989. Its founder -president is Dr Ingetraut Dahlberg.

39- “We inspire, engage, enable & connect the global library field” tagline is given by IFLA

40- Michael Gorman has given us his five new laws of librarianship:

1. Libraries serve humanity.
2. Respect all forms by which knowledge is communicated.
3. Use technology intelligently to enhance service.
4. Protect free access to knowledge; and
5. Honor the past and create the future

41- The DRTC offers a Master of Science in Library & Information Science (MS-LIS) with the primary objective of preparing the next generation information managers.

42- The British Museum Library was founded in 1753.

43- The first known circulating library was established in. Edinburgh in 1725 by a well-known bookseller, Allan Ramsay.

44- The British Library Association, LA (UK) was established in 1877.

45- Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux (ASLIB) came up in 1926 now known as Association for Information Management (ASLIB).

46- The Journal of Indian Library Association (JILA) is an official organ of Indian Library Association (ILA) & started since 1965. The Journal is issued as a quarterly publication.

47- The Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (lASLIC) drafted a model interlibrary loan code.

48- Library on Wheels term was coined by Dr. S. R. Ranganthan’s for mobile libraries.

49- Elton Mayo propounded the “Management theory of Human Relation”.

50- Dr. S.R. Ranganathan initiated the Model Library Act as a conference paper during All Asia Educational Conference held at Banaras in 1930 and later he revised it as Model Public Libraries Act.