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Sánchez González, José Fernando (2026). NEO library.org [website, version 3.0]. https://neolibrary.org/
Bibliography
The sources of the library.
The thesisFoundation of NEO library.org
- Sánchez González, José Fernando (2014). La biblioteca digital de la comisión organizadora de las conmemoraciones de 2010: una propuesta para su mejoramiento [Tesis de licenciatura en Bibliotecología y Estudios de la Información]. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. TESIUNAM 0723641. tesiunamdocumentos.dgb.unam.mx
- Authors cited through the thesis include Vannevar Bush, Jesse H. Shera, Yoneji Masuda, Manuel Castells, Martin Hilbert, William Arms, David Stern, Rosalía Peña, Ian H. Witten, Raúl Trejo Delarbre and Viviana Fernández; see the bibliography of the thesis.
Library and information scienceThe laws and their lineage
- Ranganathan, S. R. (1931). The Five Laws of Library Science. Madras: The Madras Library Association.
- Ranganathan, S. R. (1933). Colon Classification. Madras: The Madras Library Association.
- Ranganathan, S. R. (1937). Prolegomena to Library Classification. Madras: The Madras Library Association.
- Gorman, M. (1995). Five new laws of librarianship. American Libraries, 26(8), 784–785.
- Crawford, W., & Gorman, M. (1995). Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality. Chicago: American Library Association.
- Noruzi, A. (2004). Application of Ranganathan's laws to the Web. Webology, 1(2).
- Egan, M. E., & Shera, J. H. (1952). Foundations of a theory of bibliography. The Library Quarterly, 22(2), 125–137.
- Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. The Atlantic Monthly, 176(1), 101–108.
- Sánchez González, José Fernando (2026). The Neo Laws. In NEO library.org. neolibrary.org/philosophy
Web, data and accessibilityThe semantic ground of SESY.AI
- Berners-Lee, T. (2006). Linked Data. Design Issues. W3C. w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData
- Berners-Lee, T. (2025). This Is for Everyone. London: Macmillan.
- W3C (2023). Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2. W3C Recommendation. w3.org/TR/WCAG22
- Wilkinson, M. D., et al. (2016). The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Scientific Data, 3, 160018.
- GIDA (2019). The CARE Principles for data governance. gida-global.org/care
Frameworks we followFrameworks, not partnerships
- United Nations (1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 27.
- United Nations (2015). Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (A/RES/70/1).
- United Nations (2024). Global Digital Compact.
- UNESCO (2003). Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Paris: UNESCO.
- UNESCO (2015). Recommendation concerning the Preservation of, and Access to, Documentary Heritage Including in Digital Form. Paris: UNESCO.
- UNESCO (2021). UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. Paris: UNESCO.
- UNESCO (2021). Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Paris: UNESCO.
- UNESCO (2022). MONDIACULT 2022 Declaration, World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development, Mexico City.
- IFLA & UNESCO (2022). IFLA-UNESCO Public Library Manifesto 2022.
- IFLA (2012). IFLA Code of Ethics for Librarians and other Information Workers.
- Mexico: Ley General de Bibliotecas (2021); Ley General de Derechos Lingüísticos (2003); Ley Federal de Protección del Patrimonio Cultural (2022).
The great librariesOfficial sites
- Library of Congress. loc.gov
- Biblioteca Nacional de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, UNAM. bnm.iib.unam.mx
- Library and Archives Canada. library-archives.canada.ca
- Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, Brazil. gov.br/bn
- Bibliothèque nationale de France. bnf.fr · Gallica: gallica.bnf.fr
- World Digital Library, at the Library of Congress. loc.gov/collections/world-digital-library
Encyclopedic sourcesAccessed 6 October 2026
Quotations from the thesis are English translations of the Spanish original, with their page numbers. Figures about the great libraries come from their official sites and the encyclopedic sources above.
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