An essay titled for this discipline “and Scientific Method” opens with the question “Is there a [this discipline]?”, which was posed by P. S. Sivaswami Iyer. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this field of study whose fifth law by S. R. Ranganathan describes its central locations as “living organisms.”
ANSWER: library science [accept library and information science or LIS; accept “Library Science and Scientific Method”; prompt on libraries or librarian or library alone; prompt on information science]
[10m] In “Library Science and Scientific Method,” Ranganathan proposed a law of this concept which states that books with a small audience should not be allocated money. A principle of this concept is often stated as “the simplest solution is the best solution.”
ANSWER: parsimony [accept law of parsimony; accept principle of parsimony; prompt on Occam’s razor with “What concept is an alternative name for that principle?”]
[10e] One way that librarians handle the “living organism” of the library posited by Ranganathan is by organizing books using systems such as this man’s namesake Decimal System.
ANSWER: Melvil Dewey [accept Dewey Decimal System or Dewey Decimal Classification]
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