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The purpose of this research is to study the effective factors on personal information management and to recognize the strength and weakness in personal information management of postgraduate students at Alzahra University. The methodology of the research, in the part of the literature review and theoretical literature, is library study and in the part of the analysis, is survey study (descriptive and analytic). The data were gathered through a researcher made questionnaire that contained 4 parts and 73 questions. The research population includes all of the postgraduate students (at M.A/M.Sc and PhD degrees) at Alzahra University whom are studying at this university during the educational year of 2011-2012. Based on the random sampling, 309 postgraduate students at M.A/M.Sc degree and 70 postgraduate students at PhD degree participated at this research. It should be noted that personal information management of the postgraduate students has been studied under the factors of “attitude, knowledge and skill.” The research results represent that among the effective factors on personal information management, the attitude average is 3.95, knowledge’s average is 3.29, and the skills set have the average of 3.17. Furthermore, the average of the three mentioned factors’ averages is about 3.47. The amount (3.47) indicates that the situation of personal information management of postgraduate students at Alzahra University is at the upper to the average level. On the other hand, the situation of personal information management by Ph.D students is the same as M.A/M.Sc students and this amount is around 3.47. Thus it can be said that there is no significant relation between personal information management by Ph.Dstudents and M.A/M.Sc students.

The aim of this research is to study different methods of organizing oral history documents and records available in some oral history centers inside and outside Iran. It also aims to identify the most common organizing methods applied in oral history centers.

This research is conducted by using a descriptive and analytical survey. The research population consists of 7 active centers of oral history inside Iran and 12 outside Iran. The geographic distribution of the centers is taken into account so that the population includes centers from various parts of the world. The required data is collected through interviews with officials of the oral history centers. Then a comparative assessment is conducted on the collected data in order to identify the most common organization methods applied in centers of oral history.

The findings suggest that about 86% of Iran’s oral history centers studied in this research usually use alphabetic order of the family name of interviewees for organizing oral history documents. The studies conducted in other countries’ oral history centers note that these centers apply completely different and various systems for organizing their oral history documents.

The research findings clearly indicate a lack of homogeneity and integration in organizing oral history documents and this must be noticed by relevant authorities.