Shabnam Shahini; Gholamreza Heidari; Abdolhosein Farajpahlou
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This research attempted to investigate the e-readiness of academic libraries in Ahvaz from the viewpoints of their directors and librarians to identify their strengths and weaknesses in terms of e-readiness dimensions, and to offer suggestions to improve their services. The research is of a descriptive-analytic ...
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This research attempted to investigate the e-readiness of academic libraries in Ahvaz from the viewpoints of their directors and librarians to identify their strengths and weaknesses in terms of e-readiness dimensions, and to offer suggestions to improve their services. The research is of a descriptive-analytic type and a survey method was used. This study used Noorafruz, Hariri, and Hanafizadeh model (2010) and the model based on IUP (Mutula & Van Brakel, 2006) presented by Noroozi and Jafarpur (2011) as well as the international STOPE model used in Badamchi Wayghan (2012) to formulate three questionnaires. The validity of the questionnaires was determined using facial validity method and the reliability of the questionnaires was measured through Cronbach’s Alpha. Descriptive statistics including frequency, frequency percentage and mean were used. To determine the normality of distribution of the data, Kolmogorov-Smirinov test was applied. To measure the e-readiness dimensions of the libraries One-sample t-test was used. Findings showed that in general, the libraries are at “medium’ level in e-readiness. The libraries were not significantly different in terms of different dimensions of e-readiness; however, directors were significantly different in their e-readiness. It seems that libraries need to reconsider every aspects of e-readiness to reach a level of readiness appropriate for the information society of today. Since it is important to pave the path for every dimension of e-readiness to serve the clients better, library directors and university chancellors must focus on these dimensions.
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Aim: This research aimed at the study of the concept of knowledge, identification of the important components of knowledge sharing and transformation, and the study of implementation of knowledge management in the Academy of Arts of the IRI based on the views of the staff members of this organization.Method: ...
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Aim: This research aimed at the study of the concept of knowledge, identification of the important components of knowledge sharing and transformation, and the study of implementation of knowledge management in the Academy of Arts of the IRI based on the views of the staff members of this organization.Method: This research is a descriptive kind based on a survey which is administered among 190 staff members employed in different departments of this academy. The data collection tool was a survey questionnaire that was devised and administered for the purpose of this research.Findings: Considering the present situation and conditions of the Academy of Arts of the IRI, KM can be implemented successfully provided that its organizational culture could change in line with KM implementation requirements. There are three kinds of knowledge current in the academy of which what is a little complicated to be managed is the 3rd kind which requires identification and examination of the concepts embedded in the art works.Keywords: knowledge in arts, knowledge management, implementation, Academy of Arts of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Hossein Safari; Abdolhossein Farajpahlou
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هدف: هدف این پژوهش بررسی گرایشهای مطالعاتی اعضای کتابخانههای عمومی استان خوزستان بر اساس قومیتها و شهرهای مختلف استان است تا مشخص شود که آیا این افراد دارای گرایش ...
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هدف: هدف این پژوهش بررسی گرایشهای مطالعاتی اعضای کتابخانههای عمومی استان خوزستان بر اساس قومیتها و شهرهای مختلف استان است تا مشخص شود که آیا این افراد دارای گرایش مطالعاتی یکسانی هستند یا اینکه به منابع خاص خود و متفاوت با دیگر اقوام و شهرهای استان نیاز دارند.
روش: پژوهش حاضر پیمایشی بوده و بر اساس پرسشنامه مبتنی بر ردهبندی دیویی به بررسی گرایشهای مطالعاتی اعضای کتابخانههای عمومی خوزستان که متعلق به یکی از اقوام عرب، بختیاری و شهرهای دزفول، بهبهان و شوشتر هستند، پرداخته است. جامعه پژوهش 118000 نفر بوده است که 254 نمونه از میان اعضای عرب، بختیاری، بهبهانی، شوشتری و دزفولی پاسخگوی پرسشنامه بودند. برای تجزیه و تحلیل دادهها از آمار توصیفی و آزمون کروسکال-والیس استفاده شده است.
یافتهها: موضوعهای اسلام، هنر و ادبیات فارسی رتبه‌های اول تا سوم را در میان گرایش مخاطبین به دست آوردند. این 5 گروه به جز رده کلیات و زبان، در بقیه رده‌ها بر اساس آزمون آماری دارای تفاوت معناداری هستند. این 8 رده عبارتند از فلسفه و روان‌شناسی، مذهب، علوم اجتماعی، علوم محض، تکنولوژی، هنر، ادبیات و تاریخ. این پژوهش به عنوان یک راهنما برای انتخاب منابع میتواند به کار رود. این نکته با توجه به سیاستهای هدفمندی یارانهها و افزایش قیمت منابع و جوابگویی دقیق به گرایشهای مطالعاتی اعضای کتابخانههای عمومی هر شهر و قوم از اهمیت بیشتری برخوردار میشود.
