Original Article
Gholamreza Heidari
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Information combinations theory: depth and range (theory and practical dimensions) of Information in Information combinationsGholam Reza Heidari Abstract:Purpose: The purpose of this study is to show the position and strength of contraction and stretch in information combinations in Both the Information ...
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Information combinations theory: depth and range (theory and practical dimensions) of Information in Information combinationsGholam Reza Heidari Abstract:Purpose: The purpose of this study is to show the position and strength of contraction and stretch in information combinations in Both the Information Society in general and particularly in the context of specialized knowledge and information science.Methodology: The depth and breadth of the subject areas can be studied from different perspectives. Explore a concept through combinations of this, and words that with syntagmatic and co-words, one of these techniques. This point of view, while the rest of the literature and researcher studies, are more exploratory mode.Necessity and innovation: the depth, scope and location of the combinations and their associated data can be, to a large extent on and follow-up. In this context, the present paper to shape innovative combinations of types of information has been reviewed and scrutinized. This study looked at data from internal and continuing concern and long, reflection, and a discovery about the status information.Findings and conclusions: Contraction and expansion of existing combinations, universalize these combinations, the analysis and the data as the center of gravity of these combinations, messages and implications for all aspects of theory and practice in knowledge and information science (information management and science) will be visible and many topics. Keywords: information status, information combinations, information scope, information application, interdisciplinary relationship in information, information barriers.
Original Article
Knowledge Management
Fatemeh Navidi; Mohammad Hasanzadeh
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Changing Knowledge Audit Factors in Project-Based Organizations:From Present to FutureAbstractAim: The creation and flow of knowledge in the Project-Based organizations has unique characteristics, Also the audit of the created knowledge in these organizations significantly differs from other organizations. ...
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Changing Knowledge Audit Factors in Project-Based Organizations:From Present to FutureAbstractAim: The creation and flow of knowledge in the Project-Based organizations has unique characteristics, Also the audit of the created knowledge in these organizations significantly differs from other organizations. On the other hand, knowledge audit plays a key role in the success of knowledge management these organizations, the purpose of this study is investigating the importance and compliance of identified knowledge audit factors in these types of organizations.Methodology: The present study is an applied research that follows a quantitative approach using case study and survey in order to investigate the status and importance of knowledge audit factors in four PBOs: ICT Research Institute, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Niroo Research Institute; and, Iranian Space Research Center. The research data were collected through a survey of 220 project managers, project control and knowledge management managers in these four research institutes. The data were collected and analyzed in two available and ideal conditions.Results: At present, the knowledge valuation factor with a mean of 2.61 and the knowledge need analysis factor with the mean of 2.56 have the highest attention, while in the ideal state, the factors of knowledge inventory (4.287) and knowledge valuation (4.28) should be considered. In all four research institutes, there is a significant difference between the mean of knowledge audit factors in both the current and the ideal situation.Conclusion: The emphasis on knowledge valuation, knowledge needs analysis and knowledge inventory indicate the importance of knowledge assets in the Project-Based Organizations. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the importance and weight of the knowledge audit factors in designing the knowledge audit model in the PBOs.Keywords: Knowledge audit, knowledge audit factors, knowledge management, project- based organizationsKeywords: Knowledge audit, knowledge audit factors, knowledge management, project- based organizations
Review
University Libraries
Farnoosh Reghabi; Abdolhossein Farajpahlou; Nadjla Hariri
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Goal: Academic libraries need to illustrate a realistic picture of the future to keep pace with modern developments, effectively confront them, and maintain their status durability in current competitive conditions. In this way, they can make accurate decisions and plans about selecting future directions. ...
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Goal: Academic libraries need to illustrate a realistic picture of the future to keep pace with modern developments, effectively confront them, and maintain their status durability in current competitive conditions. In this way, they can make accurate decisions and plans about selecting future directions. Achieving such a picture is usually possible by conducting systematic studies about the future. Thus, the present study aimed to systematically review the studies on the future of libraries in Iran and across the world, explain the research gap, and investigate, review, and summarize the proposed driving forces of the future of academic libraries. Method: The present study implemented a systematic review methodology. For this purpose, the relevant studies were extracted from national and international databases and were investigated. Finally, 29 studies were analyzed. Findings: Reviewing the studies resulted in a list of 112 candidate driving forces that could influence the future of academic libraries. The items were extracted in eight dimensions, including political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental (to investigate the external environments), in addition to the “structural-administrative” and the “nature and services of libraries” dimensions (to investigate internal environments). Moreover, it was discovered that conducting future studies on academic libraries and developing prioritized scenarios for the future of the libraries were the research gaps in the field. Results: The directors and librarians of academic libraries have to develop strategic and future-oriented plans to maintain the durability of their organization in the face of environmental changes and developments arising from modern informational and communication technologies and effectively respond to the expectations of a knowledge-based society. The first step in this path is identifying and detecting the driving forces that influence the future of academic libraries and endeavoring to develop relevant scenarios. Thus, future studies can act as convenient bases to effectively direct academic libraries toward a desirable or prioritized future
Original Article
Knowledge Management
solyman shafee; daryosh ghafari; Mohsen Jafari
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Purpose: The importance of culture in knowledge creation is because a great deal of knowledge has been learned as a culture from previous generations. Therefore, organizations need to examine organizational culture before undertaking knowledge management. If an organization understands its type of culture, ...
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Purpose: The importance of culture in knowledge creation is because a great deal of knowledge has been learned as a culture from previous generations. Therefore, organizations need to examine organizational culture before undertaking knowledge management. If an organization understands its type of culture, it can consider the degree of appropriateness between its knowledge management practices and the culture for a specific business environment. the purpose of this article is to investigate the impact of different organizational cultures based on Cameroon and Queen's Competitive Values Framework on knowledge creation process in Kermanshah Public Libraries.Methodology: This study is descriptive based on the purpose of data collection and on the way of data collection. The study population was 87 managers and staff of Kermanshah General Department and Public Libraries. Based on the Krejcie and Morgan table, the sample size was 70 people. 51% (73%) answered the questionnaire. Data collection was done by library and field methods. Findings: the results of regression analysis and t-test show that organizational culture has a significant impact on the development of knowledge creation process in Kermanshah public libraries. Also, organizational culture has a positive and significant effect on the process of socialization, externalization, composition and internalization of knowledge in these centers. Market culture the dominant culture in these centers is that it has a positive and meaningful impact on the composition of knowledge. The study of the status of knowledge conversion showed that it is oriented towards the socialization and externalization of knowledge. Path analysis results showed that market culture had a direct effect and indigenous culture, adhocrasi culture and hierarchical culture had an indirect effect on the knowledge creation process. Based on the results of path analysis, an experimental framework was presented.Conclusion: Market culture is the dominant culture in public libraries. This is the kind of competitive and resultant culture. Leadership style is based on productive competition and strategic emphasis on competitive advantage and market superiority, so library compliance with the environment and adaptation to the needs of the organization are essential. On the other hand, it is about the process of creating knowledge to pay attention to the socialization and externalization of knowledge. This situation is consistent with Nonaka's and Tacuchi's theory, which emphasizes the importance of hidden knowledge in the process of knowledge creation, and that outsourcing is the main process of knowledge creation.
Original Article
Mahboubeh Ghorbani; fahimeh babalhavaeji; Fatemeh Nooshinfard
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The present study aims to investigate Greening in Iranian central Academic libraries from perspective of their managers. The study is an applied research and was performed by an evaluative survey method. For data collection, a researcher-made questionnaire was utilized containing six sections relevant ...
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The present study aims to investigate Greening in Iranian central Academic libraries from perspective of their managers. The study is an applied research and was performed by an evaluative survey method. For data collection, a researcher-made questionnaire was utilized containing six sections relevant to Environmental management. The research population was comprised of the managers of Iranian Academic libraries affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education, Iran’s Islamic Azad University and a total of 186 libraries were included . The Green Library measures included the construction and equipment, management and planning, librarians’ motivation and commitment, acquisition and protection, information organization and dissemination, and participation and support national and international programs were in an intermediate state, and there was not any differences between the three groups of central academic libraries in terms of observance of these measures. Iranian Academic libraries can be due to the fact that in Iranian academic system, Environmental management has not yet been turned into the university managers’ concerns, and no significant difference has been observed in this situation.
Original Article
moujan moaref; sudabeh shapoori; Hajar Zarei; shahram salavati
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The main purpose of this article is to determine the mixed elements of promotion and ranking and rating of digital libraries in Iran in terms of the use of these elements.Research Method: This research is descriptive and survey and its purpose is applied. The data collection tool is a checklist (checklist) ...
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The main purpose of this article is to determine the mixed elements of promotion and ranking and rating of digital libraries in Iran in terms of the use of these elements.Research Method: This research is descriptive and survey and its purpose is applied. The data collection tool is a checklist (checklist) which, after conducting documentary and field studies, compiled a promotion checklist and through content validity identified the most important promotion tool of Iran's digital libraries based on criteria and identified as a statistical population in the form of a census of It is used to the point where each of the libraries is evaluated based on their score on the use of promotion components.Findings show that Tebyan Digital Library and Digital Library of Science and Information Technology of Iran have the highest rank with 44 points and Niroo Research Institute digital library has the lowest rank with 6 points using the elements of promotion. Iranian digital libraries have an average of 26.3% of the 49 mixed promotion features; Advertising agent with an average of 9.07% feature out of 14 features; The public relations factor with an average of 10.07% of the 12 features and the promotion factor with 7.09% of the 12 features in these libraries. Online advertising with an average of 0.99 has the highest rank in advertising, specialized catalogs with 0.8 points have the highest average of public relations and display of new products on the site with 0.88 has the highest score in the promotion factor. Bring a percentage next to each of these items.The results of the present study indicate the identified promotion cases and determine the promotion elements for Iran's digital libraries and examine the extent to which they use these elements; Also, this study has ranked Iran's digital libraries based on the use of mixed promotion elements so that based on these results, it can help Iranian digital library managers to make better decisions and policies regarding the identification and prioritization of appropriate promotion promotion tools. The promotion mix in the form of advertising, public relations and promotion variables is appropriately designed to ensure the success of digital libraries for greater visibility and better customer service.
Original Article
Scientometrics
Ali Biranvand; Zahra Shanbedi
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the presence and activity of Iranian authors and researchers in the field of nursing in the ResearchGate and Mendeley databases, based on Altmetrics metrics obtained from Scopus Scientific Database.Methodology: The present study is an applied research ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the presence and activity of Iranian authors and researchers in the field of nursing in the ResearchGate and Mendeley databases, based on Altmetrics metrics obtained from Scopus Scientific Database.Methodology: The present study is an applied research and descriptive-survey that has been done by the scientometric method with the Altmetrics approach. The statistical population of the study includes Iranian authors and researchers in the field of nursing who had indexed documents in the Scopus database in the period of 2000-2019. 158 of these authors have been identified and reviewed by Scopus. In order to analyze the data, in addition to descriptive statistics, in the inferential statistics section with the help of Excel and SPSS software, the correlation test between Altmetrics indices in ResearchGate and Mendel with the database Scopus has been used scientifically.Results: The results show that except for the relationship between the follow-up index in ResearchGate with the Etch Index index and the citation received in Scopus, in other cases there is a significant relationship between the studied indicators. Also, there is a significant relationship between most of the indexes of the Researchgate and Mendelian databases, and only the RG score index in the Researchgate database has no significant relationship with the indexes of publications, citations, and the Achindex score in Mendelian. The relationship between most of the Mendelian and Scopus indices is also significant, and only the relationship of the followers in Mendelian with the Achindex index in the Scopus database lacks a significant relationship.Discussion and Conclusion: Considering the significant relationship between Altmetrics indexes of social networks and indexes of Scopus database, the discussion of the presence and activity of writers and researchers in scientific social networks should be pursued with more seriousness and importance.
Original Article
masoomeh latifi; Leili Allahbakhshian Farsani; Nasrin Davari Dolatabadi; fatemeh Mohammadbeigi
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IntroductionCommunication skills are essential for the survival and durability of variety of organizations, including libraries, which their proper use in the library environment is a critical feature of the librarianship as a profession that can affect even the management skills of libraries. The present ...
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IntroductionCommunication skills are essential for the survival and durability of variety of organizations, including libraries, which their proper use in the library environment is a critical feature of the librarianship as a profession that can affect even the management skills of libraries. The present study aims to "measure the impact of communication skills on quantum management skills of librarians and their role on agility of libraries."MethodologyThe present study is descriptive-analytic and modeling based on structural equation model. The research community is librarians of Iran University of Medical Sciences libraries.. Information gathering tool, Barton J's Communication Skills Questionnaire. E (2006), Theoretical Quantum Management Questionnaire and Basrawi (2015), and Organizational Agility Questionnaire Sharifi and Zhang (2010). FindingsThe results showed that the effect of communication skills on quantum management is higher than the hypothetical mean level of 3. Also, the effect of communication skills on organizational agility was greater than the effect of quantum skills. What was understood from the final model was that the path coefficient effect of communication skills on quantum management with the value of r = 0.87 rather than its path coefficient effect on libraries' agility with the value of r = 0.72 was higher. Also, in the final model, it is found that in the communication skills component, listening skills with standard factor load of r = 0.96, was more effective compared to the verbal component with standard factor load of r = 0.93 and the feedback component with standard factor load of r = 0.77. In the component of quantum management skills, trust with standard factor load of r = 0.94 and seeing with standard factor load of r = 0.91 compared to the other quantum management skills, had the most effect and component of action with factor load of r = 0.61 and the component of emotion with factor load of r = 0.64 had the least effect on organizational agility. In the component of organizational agility, responsiveness with standard factor load of r = 0.95 and flexibility with standard factor load of r = 0.89 compared to speed with standard factor load of r = 0.75 and competency with standard factor load of r = 0.63 received the most impact from communication skills and quantum management skills.ConclusionDue to the positive impact of communication skills and the complex nature of the communication process, it is necessary to develop interpersonal communication skills in the librarians regarding their professional needs to benefit their skills in library management and moving their activities towards dynamicity and agility.
