فصلنامه تحقیقات کتابداری و اطلاع رسانی دانشگاهی
سال چهل و دوم شماره 2 (پیاپی 48، پاییز و زمستان 1387)

This paper considers the concept and background of oral history in internal and external references. Also it studies necessity, importance and agents of arising and developing oral history in the field of archives. This research uses library and document method and its database is provided via resources in prominent libraries, databases and websites related to oral history subject. Nowadays oral history becomes known as one of the important and effective methods in historical researches. Interview is the most important base of oral history. The effect of revolutions and political changes, produces of industrial revolution and creativity of some historians are the agents of arising and developing oral history in the field of archive. Then classification, preparation and assessment of oral history sources are discussed.

To study aspects of archivists of central archive and information production unit of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting of necessity and significance of in-service training. This survey was performed that viewpoints of 29 archivists among some 40 body in his two centres (%72.5 of total community) was evaluated. All members of this community acknowledged that in-service training is necessary and some %80 of them stated that this necessity is high. Main subjects of primitive in-service programs have been about office soft wares or, in other words, ICDL skills (word processing programs, spreadsheet programs etc.) and English language and efficiency of the programs have been middle level. %58.6 of the community remarked that test and degree is necessary for evaluation of trainers. They pointed that, new areas such as information literacy, office soft wares, indexing, and abstracting must be chiefly regarded and computer and network skills must be regarded beside of them. Majority of archivists (average rating: 1.43) stated that in-house training is the best form for training and most of them (%62.06) said that educational work shops is the best fashion to execute the programs.

In this research Ph.D. dissertation of KMSU were studied so that citation behavior of authors could be identified and in so doing, the core journal were introduced. The other aims of this study are determining the type, language and half life of cited journals. Citation analysis in this study. To review the references and to determine the core journals, Bradford Law was used. The references for 88 Ph.D. dissertations presented in a five year interval between 1380-1384 in KMSU were reviewed and analyzed. They were related to the following fields: Internal, Radiology, Anesthesia, Pediatrics, Surgery, Obstetrics Gynecology, Urology, Tropical and Infectious Diseases.After reviewing citations, it was found that out of 973 citations 568 (%58.37) cited journals, Out of which 543 (%55.80) cited foreign journals and 25 (%2.56) cited Farsi journals. This study also found that each dissertation in the average cited 11.05 texts.The number of core journals in this study was four journals (%1.53). Also the analysis of dates of citation showed that the half-life of foreign journals is eight years which is too high for periodicals. The analysis of language distribution of citations of foreign journals showed that 261 (%47.36) journals were English and 20 (%3.62) was Farsi.

In this study is we want to know about the ability of students of Islamic Azad University (Qom) in using of library. In addition, knowing inadequacy and study of student's view points about user education is another aim of this study. A survey research is used. This study is performed with a statistical sample of 351 students, studying at Islamic Azad University (Qom) in all levels of education including diploma, bachelor, and Master of Science and PhD. Result show that students dont know exactly how to retrieval information. Only 32% of them can search their materials by themselves, and other students do it by the aids of others. Using expert librarian in different parts of library with offering leaflet or printed pamphlet planning workshops or educational seminars and providing video taps, placed at next stage, Also there is a meaningful relation between the rate of familiarity and proficiency among educated and uneducated students.

The survey of present collecting situation university libraries of Shiraz city and display methods for improve quality is object of this examination. This research is a survey and questionnaire is means of provide information and it is used to analyze statistical information of descriptive method (frequency percent) and Excel program. In Interpretation of results, This research showed that %53.92 of librarians are specialists in library science in university libraries of Shiraz city, only and %93.75 of librarians have a role collecting. %75 of these libraries important to clients request for selection and provide materials and their basic method is using of books fairs. There in no independent committee for selecting books and there is not written policy for selecting books and there is in %12.5 of these libraries written policy for collecting, only. Catalogs are basic method for awareness of publish new materials in %93.75 of these libraries and %31.25 of these have exchange inter libraries, only.

The aim of this research is to do an Internal Evaluation of the Academic library based on the views of experts to identify the current situation. It also aims to present a method for library evaluation and to help the planners and managers of such centers to understand and improve the condition of university libraries and information centers. The methodology of this case study is based on Internal Evaluation. Questionnaire, interview and checklists were used for gathering data. The results show that the lowest rates of Factors, belongs to the Services & Instruction Factor (%39) and the Budget Factor (%45) in the Factors are: Administration (%55.5), Staff (%58). Resources (%48), Material Organizing (%58),

The aim of this research is to determine the core journals in Hamadan University of medical sciences with Bradford's law of scattering. Survey method, bibliometrics and Bradford's law are used in this research. Research population consists of all subscribed journals of Hamadan University of medical sciences in 2004-006. Research results show that 109 journals (74.7 percent of all journals) were used and 37 journals (25.3 percent of all journals) were not used in the research period. Journals were used 984 times in research period. Average of usage rate of each journal title was 6.74 times. 13 journal titles were to determine as core journals. These core journals were used 337 times (34.2 percent of all usages) in research period. 72.3 percent of users believe that the use of journals response to their information needs a great deal.

Selective Dissemination of information (SDI) is important in quick and update availability to information. SDI has also critical role in producing of knowledge. In this article has been explained one of the new information technology about SDI. At this survey has been explained about RSS, RSS Feeds. RSS readers (news aggregators), and also about install of Feed Reader (one of the RSS Readers). In this article I have demonstrated the application of RSS in Scopus (The largest abstract and citation database) and how you can subscribe to a Scopus RSS Feed

This article is the report of a survey conducted to offer "The State of Art" of the libraries of the Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch. The methodology used in this survey is data-gathering process which is based on the collection of data from 8 libraries of this university. The instrument of the data collection was a questionnaire with 9 parts. Data are represented in tables and then they are analyzed to answer the main questions of the survey. At the end an improvement model according to the Standards of the University Libraries in Iran for calculating and estimating the collection, staff, space, budget, facilities and services, through quantitative guidelines is proposed, in order to be used in future improvements of these libraries