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zahra neamatollai; faride asare
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This research project aims to evaluate different universities' libraries in Shiraz in providing information technology and communication services. This study is based on a model which is designed by Noorafrooz, Hariri and Hanafizadeh. The present project is analytical and descriptive, and the method ...
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This research project aims to evaluate different universities' libraries in Shiraz in providing information technology and communication services. This study is based on a model which is designed by Noorafrooz, Hariri and Hanafizadeh. The present project is analytical and descriptive, and the method used in this research is based on information collated (in the year 1389) via a questionnaire prepared by the above mention authors. The statistical packages used in this survey were SPSS and Microsoft Excel.The findings of this survey demonstrate the strong and weak points of all the university. The library of the College of Dentistry of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences ranked first among all of the surveyed libraries. In contrast, the library of the College of Human Sciences of Shiraz University had the lowest score of -1.09. Overally, the results of this study show that the majority of the libraries of universities in Shiraz have average or below average electronic facilities and services offered to their users.
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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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Sedigheh M.Esmaeil; Mahboobeh Ghorbani
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The purpose of this research is to determine effect of librarians and information professional's deal with soft war with achieves insights of them about soft war characteristics. This research library study and survey using questionnaire that has been confirmed by a number of teachers and professionals. ...
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The purpose of this research is to determine effect of librarians and information professional's deal with soft war with achieves insights of them about soft war characteristics. This research library study and survey using questionnaire that has been confirmed by a number of teachers and professionals. Collected data analyzed in SPSS software. Population study is over 80 faculty members at governmental LIS research institutes, organizations and universities that about 45 questionnaires has been received. The findings show that 82.2% of population study believes the satellite TV's has the highest efficiency compared with other tools of soft war. 66.7% state that changing in beliefs is the most important goal of soft war. 84.4% state that young people are the most important of target group of soft war , and also 80% state increasing public awareness is the most effective strategies to address soft war and 64.4% believe that librarians and information specialists have the main role in creating current awareness services to deal soft war. At the end, there is a significant relationship between importance of war objectives and general strategies.From the results of this article, it is obvious that the role of librarian and information specialists is momentous in strengthening the incentive and awareness-raising strategies.At the same time, these groups must act and be effective in modifying controlling and limiting policies that can sometimes lead to resilience and negative impacts.
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Mahboobeh Shokohian; Asefeh Asemi; Ahmad Shabani
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Purpose:The main purpose of the study was to identify the teenagers' need from the public libraries' services and resources under supervision IPLFMethodology: This study was a descriptive-survey and the research population contained teenager's members in the public libraries. Random sampling method was ...
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Purpose:The main purpose of the study was to identify the teenagers' need from the public libraries' services and resources under supervision IPLFMethodology: This study was a descriptive-survey and the research population contained teenager's members in the public libraries. Random sampling method was used. A researcher-made questionnaire formed the major instrument for data gathering. Finding: The findings show that first preference and most using LR were Educational Extra Books and the last preference is Indexed Journals Database. first priority of teenagers' use of the LS belongs to the Lending services and the last priority belongs to extra services. the first priority meeting teenagers' need by the LR is for Educational Extra Books and the last priority is for Indexed Journals Database. the first priority teenagers’ answers to the question of how much their needs are met by the LS is for Lending Services and the last priority is for Familiarity to Library service. first priority of the problems of teenagers in using the library is for lack of knowledge about new resources and the last priority is for lack of providing training programs to get familiar to the library. finally The most favorite topic for teenagers is technology.Conclusion: comparing the results of the questionnaires with the adolescents' needs, recognize that libraries under IPLF are almost successful in meeting the needs of the customers based on their priorities. Also we can conclude that public libraries have been successful in lending services but couldn’t meet other needs of the public services.
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Amirreza Asnafi; Salma Keshavarzian
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Purpose: In current research, after a comprehensive review on academic genealogy, some important projects were introduced and related software was described. Research Methodology: This is a review paper and in current research literature review was used. Results: The present study revealed that several ...
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Purpose: In current research, after a comprehensive review on academic genealogy, some important projects were introduced and related software was described. Research Methodology: This is a review paper and in current research literature review was used. Results: The present study revealed that several projects have been operating on the genealogy of the scientific supervisor-student relationship is drawn through that can be a model for similar projects in Iran. On the other hand, in this study it was found there are several software programs that genealogy researchers to identify scientific and scientific relations researchers can draw benefit from them. In the genealogy of the emphasis on the relationship of people like peer, or teacher-student. Thus, in the majority of genealogy projects, is working in a scientific field, relationships can be determined. In recent decades, citation analysis and synthesis methods have been used to analyze scientific collaboration between writers However, the authors of these methods cannot be determined.
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Ezatollah Ghadampour; Maryam Zandkarimi
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This study aimed to investigate relationship between organizational communication and Knowledge sharing with the role of positive organizational trust in teachers. This research is of descriptive correlational study. Research community is included all highschool teachers of first and secund class in ...
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This study aimed to investigate relationship between organizational communication and Knowledge sharing with the role of positive organizational trust in teachers. This research is of descriptive correlational study. Research community is included all highschool teachers of first and secund class in the year of 1395 in bijar city whom were 500 people. The statistical sample was 217 people. For data collection questionnaires, a organizational communication doaee (1372) with alpha (0.91), Knowledge sharing Bock, Zmud, Kim & Lee(2005) with alpha (2006) with alpha (0.75) and organizational trust Ellonen, Blomqvist & Puumalainen (2008)with alpha (0.94) was used. For data analysis of structural equation modeling using pls was used. The results show that organizational communication directly (β=0.185) and indirect(β= 0.103) on In other words it can be said that organizational communication with role mediator organizational trust of the Increase Knowledge sharing placed school teachers.In this regard, when the organizational trust as a mediating variable in the equation is treated with more power
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Zahra Batooli; Fatemeh Fahimnia
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Purpose: review of articles in the field of Game in libraries and provide scientometric and content analysis of this field.The study population included 86 articles in the field of Game in libraries that indexed in Scopus by the end of 2016.Articles information saved in Excel to be analyzed in the final ...
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Purpose: review of articles in the field of Game in libraries and provide scientometric and content analysis of this field.The study population included 86 articles in the field of Game in libraries that indexed in Scopus by the end of 2016.Articles information saved in Excel to be analyzed in the final stage. Title and Abstracts and If availability, the fulltext of the articles were studied. 66.3 percent of articles were "Research paper". Collection of these articles was cited 134 times. The results of articles analysis are provided based on the type of library, research methods, game style and Subject. The most important subjects in in the field of "Game in libraries" were Game-based learning, Game collection development, Game programs, Game design, Game analysis, Information literacy, Library instruction, search ethics, plagiarism and gamification. Identify different subjects of the field of game in libraries Will be most effective to the success of research projects in this field and to provide long-term planning for Implementation of game programs in libraries and using game in education such as library instruction, information literacy education
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Hanieh Zare; Saeideh Ebrahimi; Abdolrasool Jowkar
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Objective: The aim of the study is to investigate the role of knowledge management components in corporate entrepreneurship of information science specialists, employed in shiraz university libraries.Methodology: The used tools of the study include KM questionnaire of Nayyer (1390) and the CE questionnaire ...
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Objective: The aim of the study is to investigate the role of knowledge management components in corporate entrepreneurship of information science specialists, employed in shiraz university libraries.Methodology: The used tools of the study include KM questionnaire of Nayyer (1390) and the CE questionnaire of Hooman (1381). Stability alpha coefficient of Cronbach was used to measure internal parallelism of KM and CE questionnaires, which gained 0/89 and 0/92, respectively. The studied society includes the librarians, employed in shiraz university libraries (87 people).Findings: Results indicated, among the components of KM, components "people", "process" and "culture" had a significant and positive relationship with corporate entrepreneurship, but between the component of the "Technology" with corporate entrepreneurship, there was no significant relationship. Conclusions: Libraries need to implement knowledge management and utilization of its intellectual capital, In creating entrepreneurship in the over time that, depends on the knowledge exchange process. In this way the most important factor of corporate entrepreneurship achievement effective management of knowledge in the organization. In other words, knowledge management in libraries could be considered as the bedrock of corporate entrepreneurship.
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Parisa Kamranian M.; Mozafar Cheshmehsohrabi
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This research examines the relationship between psychological capital and organizational commitment in public university librarians in Isfahan. Materials and Methods: the methoe of reaserch is correlation with stratified random sampling method. The population of this research were all librarians in Isfahan ...
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This research examines the relationship between psychological capital and organizational commitment in public university librarians in Isfahan. Materials and Methods: the methoe of reaserch is correlation with stratified random sampling method. The population of this research were all librarians in Isfahan universities which 128 employees were selected. Data is based on standard questionnaires were analyzed according to the statistical society. The data collected used with software spss 21. Results: The findings of the analysis showed self-efficacy (confidence), hoped, optimism, and flexibility librarians of Isfahan public universities and their organizational commitment there is a significant relationship but The relationship between psychological capital and organizational commitment there is no significant relationship between demographic characteristics librarians of Isfahan public universities. Conclusion: The results of this research is to discover new solutions based on modern science to managers and supervisors libraries, so that is a step, to improve the working conditions of workers and librariansbecome better.
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mahboobeh farzinyazdi; roya baradar; Amir Ghaebi
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive framework on the factors affecting the acceptance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Iranian academic libraries.Method: The present research is applied in terms of its purpose and in terms of its implementation method ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive framework on the factors affecting the acceptance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Iranian academic libraries.Method: The present research is applied in terms of its purpose and in terms of its implementation method is an analytical survey that has been carried out with a mixed (quantitative-qualitative) approach. In the first part, content analysis method and in the second part, the Delphi technique and a researcher-made questionnaire were used. The research community in the first part includes the title, abstract, and keywords of the 3922 records identified in the Web of science as Citation Database. The research community in the second part consists of 40 IT experts that were selected using objective sampling method. Findings: The findings indicate that in 82.93% of the research, 9 technology acceptance models have been used; among them, TAM with the frequency of 694 has been the most used model in previous research. Other findings showed that the acceptance framework of ICTs in Iranian academic libraries includes 42 components. Also, perceived of usefulness, system quality (technological features) and user satisfaction with mean rank of 32.10, 28.63 and 26.97 were respectively recognized as the most important components influencing the acceptance of technology in Iranian academic libraries. Result: The present research, by identifying and prioritizing the effective components of technology acceptance, can play a significant role in user satisfaction and increase the effectiveness of technologies in libraries when changing, developing or transforming.
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Amir Hessam Radfar
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Goal: This study aims to discover self-directed learning’s components among the university students studying in the field of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, as well as to apply two new teaching methods including concept maps and collaborative learning. Method: Considering the type of ...
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Goal: This study aims to discover self-directed learning’s components among the university students studying in the field of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, as well as to apply two new teaching methods including concept maps and collaborative learning. Method: Considering the type of data collection, this research is classified as the semi-experimental method along with pre-test and post-test. Firstly, the influential elements impacting on self-directed learning and its different components were discovered by text analysis method. Then, the Fisher’s questionnaire was used to measure the self-directed learning’s components of the mentioned students in the pre-test stage. Improving the self-directed learning’s components, two new teaching methods including concept maps and collaborative learning were applied. Finally, the Fisher’s questionnaire was used for the post-test stage.Results: The findings indicate that utilizing collaborative learning has a meaningful impact on the self-directed learning’s components among the students studying in the field of Information Science and Knowledge Studies in University of Tehran, while concept map method has no such meaningful impact.
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Firoozeh Zare-Farashbandi; Azra Daei
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Purpose: It’s essential to review and update medical library and information science curriculum, because of influence from developments in other related sciences. This study aimed to compare and implement the curriculum of the Master of Science curriculum of medical library, with curriculums of ...
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Purpose: It’s essential to review and update medical library and information science curriculum, because of influence from developments in other related sciences. This study aimed to compare and implement the curriculum of the Master of Science curriculum of medical library, with curriculums of similar fields in Iran. Methods: This research used comparative method. Checklist of curriculums was used for data collection, medical library and information science, knowledge and information science, library and information science. Results: Medical Library and information science curriculum was mostly similar with field of study curriculum in Islamic Azad University. Compare in current areas of study showed this medical librarianship had most closely match with information science area of study (93.75%) and the lowest similarity with digital library management (37.5%). Conclusion: Similarity between medical library and information science curriculum with other curriculums showed this field couldn’t fulfill numerous and varied needs of the medical community and related sciences. Changing in curriculum and creation of area of study like medical librarianship, hospital librarianship, evidence base librarianship and etc. could fill the gaps.
