Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Libraries and library movement. 2. Newton, mathematics and Ramanujan. 3. Library responsibilities of independent India. 4. Special librarianship - what it connotes. 5. IFLA - what it should be and do. 6. Library science and scientific method. 7. Library grant to Indian universities: some suggestions for the UGC. 8. Document, documentation and standardization. 9. Library development in India.10. Intellectual problems and equipment consideration in the design of new systems.11. Revolutions in library science.12. Documentation: a vital link in communication (documentations in many lands 7). 13. Model public libraries bill: an evaluation sponsored by the union ministry of education.14. Evolution of reference service and documentation service. 15. Emergence of library science (Development of library science).16. Reference service through four centuries.17. Documentation, computer and classification. 18. Is there a library profession? 19. Librametry and its scope. 20. Unified view of education and library work. Index. This book comes the closest to 'The Science and Profession of Libraries' since both of them contain the articles penned by the Father of Library Science, Dr. S.R. Ranganathan. The book 'A Librarian Looks Back' has not been available for readers for decades now leaving vacuum for the readers who wish to read such a book written by a legend.