List of Nickname of People Related to Library and Information Science

Name of the Person	Nickname
Abraham Harold Maslow	Father of the “Hierarchy of Needs”
Aristotle	Father of Encyclopedia
Bellary Shamanna Kesavan	Father of Indian National Bibliography
Bill Smith	Father of Six Sigma
Charles Babbage	Father of the Computer
Claude Elwood Shannon	Father of Information Theory
Conrad Gessner	Father of Bibliography
Derek John de Solla Price	Father of Scientometrics
Frederick Irving Herzberg	Father of Corporate Strategy
Frederick Winslow Taylor	Father of Scientific Management
George Elton Mayo	Father of Human Relations School
George Kelly	Father of Cognitive Clinical Psychology
Harry Igor Ansoff	Father of Strategic Management
Henri Fayol	Father of Classical School of Management / Father of Administration
Kurt Zadek Lewin	Founder of Social Psychology
Mary Parker Follett	Mother of Modern Management
Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey	Father of Modern Librarianship / Father of Library Movement in USA
Mortimer Taube	Father of Coordinate Indexing
Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet	Father of Information Science
Peter Ferdinand Drucker	Father of Modern Management
Samuel Swett Green	Father of Reference Work
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan	Father of Library Science, Documentation, and Information Science in India
Walter Andrew Shewhart	Father of Statistical Quality Control
William Charles Berwick Sayers	Grammarian of Library Classification
William Edwards Deming	Father of Modern Quality Control

Dr. Badan Barman at present working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam, India. He is the creator of the LIS Links (http://www.lislinks.com) - India’s most popular social networking website for Library and Information Science professionals. He also created the Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE) (http://www.oajse.com), UGC NET Guide (http://www.netugc.com), Assam Archive (http://www.assamarchive.com) and LIS Study (http://www.lisstudy.com) website.