Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan

Positions Held

• Member Imperial Library Committee (1932-1934)
• Committee on National Central Library (1948)
• International Committee Of Library Experts, United Nations (1948)
• Faculty, UNESCO International School on Public Librarianship (1948)
• Advisory Committee of INSDOC, New Delhi (1951)
• International Committee on Bibliography of UNESCO (1951-1953)
• Board of Studies in Library Science, Osmania University (1960)

Secretary

• Lunch Club, Presidency College, Madras (1922-1923)
• Mathematics and Science Section, Madras Teachers' Guild (1922-1923)
• Madras Library Association (1928-1948)
• Library Service Section of All Asia Educational Conference, Benaras (1930)
• Indian Adult Education Association (1949-1953)
• FID committee on general classification. (He was also the Chairman of the FID Committee) (1954-1964)

President/Chairman

• President, Indian Library Association (1944-1953)
• Chairman, Documentation Committee of Indian Standards Institution (1947)
• Vice President, FID (1953-1956)
• Vice President, Indian Adult Education (1953)
• Chaiman, FID Committee on General Classificiation. (He was also the Secretary of the FID Committee) (1954-9164)
• President, Madras Library Association (1958)
• Chairman, Library buildings , fittings and furniture committee of the Indian Standards Institution (1958)
• Vice President, FID (1958-1961)
• Chairman, Library Committee University Grants Commission, New Delhi (1958-1959)
• Chairman, Review Committee on Library Science, University Grants Commission (1960)
• Chairman, Library Science Courses Committee, University of Madras (1960)
• Chairman, Expert Committee on Library Science, Banaras Hindu University (1960)
• Chairman, Committee for Library Science Course, Mysore University (1960)
• Chairman, Preservation of Documents Section, Indian Standards Institution, Kanpur (1961)
• Chairman, Committee to draft the Library bill for Mysore State (1962)

Founder

• Professor B. Ross endowment in Mathematics at the Christian College, Madras (1925)
• Abgila (1949)
• Library Research Circle, Delhi (1950)
• Delhi Seminar in Library Science, University of Delhi (1950)
• FID Committee on General Classification (1954)
• Annals of Library Science (1956)
• MP Library Association (1958)
• Documentation Research and Training Center, Bangalore (1962)
• Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (1963)
• Library Science with a Slant to Documentation (1965)

Editor

• Editorial Board, Modern Librarian (1937-1947)
• Editorial Board, Indian Librarian (1947)
• Abgila , Indian Library Association (1949-1953)
• Associate Editor, Libri (1951)
• Annals of Library Science (1956-1963)
• American Documentation (1959)
• Library Science with a Slant to Documentation (1965-1972)

Consultant

• UNESCO for preparing the place of machinery in literature search (1950)
• Jaffna Public Library (1952)
• Library Development Plan for Kerala State

Positions held in Conferences/Seminars

• President, Pudukkotta Library Conference (1926)
• Local Secretary, All India Public Library Conference held in Madras (1927)
• President, First Library Conference of Central Provinces and Berar (1946)
• President, All India Adult Educational Conference, Mysore (1948)
• President, All India Library Conference, Nagpur (1949)
• President, Gwalior Library Conference (1950)
• Secretary, Seminar on Literature for Neoliterates, Okhla, Delhi (1953)
• Director, Seminar on Social Service Research on Libraries (1959)
• President, Bengal Library Conference at Nawadwip (1959)
• Director, UGC Seminar on Work flow from publisher to reader - workflow in college and  university libraries (1959)
• Chairman, Indian Library convention, Delhi (1959) Chairman, Documentation Section, Second Indian Standards Convention, Hyderabad (1959)
• Director, Govt. of India, Seminar on School Libraries, Bangalore (1962)
• Director, Govt. of Andra Pradesh Seminar (1962)
• Director, National Seminar , DRTC, Bangalore (1963)
• Director, MWF - Masters' course and T, Th and PhD course, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (1964)
• Chairman, International Study Conference on Classification, Elsinor, Denmark (1964)
• Director, International Seminar on Colon Classification, Rutgers University, USA (1964)