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Library Committees and Commission Appointed by UGC

Name of Committee	Year	Name of the Chairman	Suggestion/Decision /Results / Work
Library Committee	1957	Dr. S.R. Ranganathan	Regarding Library Grants, Purchase of Books, Cultivating Reading habits, Facilities for Inter-Library loan, Photocopying, Reference and Documentation Service, etc.
Review Committee on Library Science	1961	Dr. S.R. Ranganathan	Regarding standard for teaching, Curriculum, Qualification of the students for each course, Guidelines for conducting an examination, and lay down minimum standard for passing.
Education Commission	1964-1966	D.S. Kothari	To evaluate our education system as well as the libraries.
Mehrotra Committee	1983	R.C. Mehrotra	To consider the revision of pay scale, career/professional development, and service condition of teacher in Universities and Colleges.
Committee on National Network set up for Universities/ Libraries	1988	Prof. Yash Pal	The Chairman of the Committee suggested a measure of networking and information centre in Universities, Information Centre, Colleges.
Curriculum Development Committee in Library and Information Science	1990-1993	Members of Committee are Prof. P.N Kaula, Prof. S.G. Mahajan, Prof. A.K. Anand, Dr P.K. Mahapatra, etc.	Regarding the Curriculum Development of Library Science.

Library Committee Important Programs of the UGC for Developing of the Academic Libraries
1.	Wheat Loan Educational Exchange Programs	1951-61
2.	Books Banks	1963-64
3.	Regional Library Centre	1974
4.	National Information Center and Inter-University Center
5.	Library Buildings