A Survey on the Accordance of the Iranian Public Library Management System (SAMAN) Capabilities with the Librarian's Mental Model

The main purpose of this research is a survey on the accordance of the Iranian public library management system (SAMAN) capabilities with the librarians’ mental model.
This research is functional and the method of the survey is descriptive-analytical approach. Statistical study of this research is All 220 librarians working in public libraries in the province of Khorasan Razavi that use Saman software. Cochran formula was used to determine the sample size and finally 141 was determined as sample and finally 132 questionnaire were gathered. The data collection tool is questionnaire. In order to access the reliability of the data collection tool, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used and reliability was confirmed.
Findings: The findings showed that the accordance of Saman software capabilities with the librarian's mental model is 3/934. In this part, the lowest average (3/8) is related to display capabilities of information. The highest average (4.423) is related to circulation.
Results indicated that Saman software capabilities doesn’t have any significant difference with librarians’ mental model according to any of these four characteristics: sex, level of education, field of study, and work experience.