majideh sanji

The present research aims to study the relationship between organizational atmosphere and organizational commitment in the public libraries of Mashhad city. The present research is an applied descriptive survey research. The population is 117 librarians in the public libraries of Mashhad city. Data collection was done by questionnaires. The research questionnaire was designed based on Halpin and Craft’s organizational atmosphere description and Meyer and Allen’s organizational commitment questionnaire. The findings showed that librarians’ satisfaction with organizational atmosphere conditions in the items related to the individual’s interaction with other staff (with total average of 4. 17) is higher than their satisfaction in terms related to the interaction between the staff and the manager (with the total average of 2. 83). It was found that the respondents’ organizational commitment in all indexes is higher than average (3). Generally، there is no significant relationship between organizational atmosphere and organizational commitment in Mashhad city public libraries. Also، in terms of organizational commitment، there is no significant difference between male and female librarians، while the librarians with no degree in library science have more organizational commitment than those who have a degree. Originality/Value: Till now، no research has been conducted regarding the organizational atmosphere and organizational commitment in Iran. This research has been conducted in the public libraries of Mashhad city for this purpose. This research also discusses one of the basic issues in the field of man power in libraries which needs deeper research.

The present research aims to study the relationship between organizational atmosphere and organizational commitment in the public libraries of Mashhad city. The present research is an applied descriptive survey research. The population is 117 librarians in the public libraries of Mashhad city. Data collection was done by questionnaires. The research questionnaire was designed based on Halpin and Craft’s organizational atmosphere description and Meyer and Allen’s organizational commitment questionnaire. The findings showed that librarians’ satisfaction with organizational atmosphere conditions in the items related to the individual’s interaction with other staff (with total average of 4. 17) is higher than their satisfaction in terms related to the interaction between the staff and the manager (with the total average of 2. 83). It was found that the respondents’ organizational commitment in all indexes is higher than average (3). Generally، there is no significant relationship between organizational atmosphere and organizational commitment in Mashhad city public libraries. Also، in terms of organizational commitment، there is no significant difference between male and female librarians، while the librarians with no degree in library science have more organizational commitment than those who have a degree. Originality/Value: Till now، no research has been conducted regarding the organizational atmosphere and organizational commitment in Iran. This research has been conducted in the public libraries of Mashhad city for this purpose. This research also discusses one of the basic issues in the field of man power in libraries which needs deeper research.

Web sites are considered as an important tool on the internet and it has an important role in the utilization of students from the internet. In this study, we tried to evaluate Iranian schools web sites. Research population consists of 122 school websites. We used a check list for evaluation of school websites. We found that all aspects of Iranian school websites (authorship / sponsorship, design, contents, and information organization) are in low position. Result of Pearson test showed that there is a significant relationship between all aspects, except information organization and design aspects. On the other hand, it was also considerable that in general, non-profit school web sites were better than governmental school web sites. Results showed that website design for schools should be based on cognitive development, physical, social and emotional growth of students and it is necessary to ask children, librarian, computer specialists, children psychologists, and the other specialist to improve the Iranian school websites situation.

Today, government services or e-government is one of the most important issues in society. Since in the e-government environment, the knowledge management strategy plays a central role, this paper has aimed to study knowledge access, creation, and transfer in portals of Iran ministries. The statistical populations of this study consisted of all Iran ministries portals. An evaluation model known as knowledge access, creation and transfer (K-ACT) was presented and with using this model, a checklist was developed and applied for evaluating the portals. The findings indicated that, on average, ministries’ portals featured only about 26.4 percent of the knowledge access, 30 percent of knowledge creation, and 22 percent in knowledge transfer. The ranking of portals also showed that ministries of information and communication technology, and industry and mine in knowledge access; economic affairs and finance, health and medical education, defense, and industry and mine in knowledge creation; and the ministry of economic affairs and finance in knowledge transfer with 41 percent of criteria have won first place between the portals. Generally, the portals of economic affairs and finance, and industry and mine ministries with 42 percent and ministry of information and communication technology with 34 percent of criteria, had the highest standards in the field of knowledge management. The results indicated that there were many weaknesses in the use of new technologies - in particular, portals - in Iran that must to be examined and fixed by planning and scientific work and the use of various expert's opinions.

This study surveyed the accuracy of citations in authored articles published in the 1387 issues of Library and information Science Quarterly Journal. The statistical populations of this study consisted of 585 books and journals citations articles published in 4 issues in 1387. By using random sampling method 230 citations were selected. The findings showed that: in 51/8 percent of English journals citations, 39 percent of Persian journals citations, 28/5 percent of English books citations and 48 percent of Persian books citations have errors and 21/4 percent of this error rates are major citations errors. There is not a significant relationship between error rate and type of document and there is not a significant relationship between error rates and language of citations. The results showed that sharing of responsibility between authors, editors, and reviewers and a assessment of a certain percentage of a submitted article’s references as part of the acceptance process can be potential solutions to the problem of citations inaccuracy.