Evaluating the social security promotion model by Foundation of Iranian Public libraries

The purpose of this study was to present a model for promoting social security factors, according to the experts’ views and test the fitness of the model by librarians ‘views of Iranian public libraries Foundation through proper statistical indicators.

The type of research was applied by purpose and the method used was analytical survey. The study population consisted of the managers of the Foundation of Iranian public libraries and the experts of its general administrations in provinces for them, the sample size was determined 428 people. The research tool was a questionnaire used by Mosayebzadeh, Mirhosseini, Abazari, Hariri (2019) which was confirmed by 50 experts in the field of Librarianship and social security using Delphi technique, which also confirms the validity of the questionnaire. Questionnaire reliability was calculated through Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 89%. Finally, the importance of effective factors was studied using structural equation modeling (SEM). Amos software was used to analyze the data.

In final model, according to the head of libraries and experts ‘views, the affecting factors consisted of 4 main factors: Social security and capital, Cultural and social activities, leisure time enrichment, promote reading which were confirmed by testing the above hypothesis and can have significant impact on Social security.

The results of this study showed that public libraries can take effective steps as social institutions to promote social security. The identified components and subcomponents of this study can be used by public library managers and practitioners as a planning tool to promote social security.