Abstract
Defines an empirical law as discovered, defined and formulated by scientists and states their kinds. Explains how S R Ranganathan sensed a lack of normative laws to guide library services and methods and subsequently formulated by Five Laws of library Science in 1920s. Examines the question whether the laws, which worked well in the print on paper paradigm, are still valid in electronic information. Characteristics of virtual libraries and that of ultra modern documents facilitated by the IT are examined. Enumerates the implication of the Laws with respect to the ubiquitous Internet, Electronic publishing, Information Literacy, Virtual Reference Desks, Open Access Archives, Information Transfer, Knowledge Management, Information Marketing, OPACs and Hypermedia. Finds that all the new concepts and processes facilitate the implications of the Laws which square well with the IT enabled services and information society.
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