جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "information resources" در نشریات گروه "کتابداری و مدیریت اطلاعات"

The current research is practical in terms of purpose. In present study used a qualitative approach to examine and analyze the status of the Information Systems of the National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI). Documentary analysis, Tem analysis, and Fuzzy Delphi techniques were used to collect data. The research community includes the Information systems of the NLAI and experts in the field of information technology. The Information Systems consisted of Digital Library system, Iranian Newspaper System (SANA), National libraries network, National document center network, Iran Publications database, Manuscript database, Iranian Scientific Publications System. Also, 21 people (10 people to interview and 11 people to Delphi techniques) was selected experts in the fields of information systems, digital libraries, copyright and technology. For data analysis, coding and categorization of concepts were used in the form of open coding for documentary analysis and Tem analysis. Qualitative data analysis was done manually and using the MAXQDA 2020 software. Also, descriptive survey was used to analyze the indicators in fuzzy Delphi method and calculations were done using Excel. Tableau 2018 software was used to display and draw indicators better.Therefore, using Tem analysis method, 70 indicators of preventive technical requirements were identified, and then these indicators were given to 11 experts, and after two rounds of the fuzzy Delphi panel, 69 indicators identify. These indicators included 12 components was carried out. Finally, indicators “Adobe Reader and other tools” was removed from the checklist. The use of different methods to collect technical indicators and the use of triangulation method gives credibility to the research. Network Security; standards and frameworks; Authentication; digital reading tools; digital preservation; payment systems; rights metadata; access control; copy control; License; Digital repository and transfer have formed 12 components of preventive technical requirements. Also, the findings of the research showed that digital and bibliographic systems were at a weak level in terms of taking advantage of preventive technical requirements for copyright. This study offered technical framework. Also, the use of technical requirements such as: look inside, the copyright of policy, rights metadata, development and updating of systems and communication and interaction with the software support company, METS standard and use of digital repository offered in the studied information systems.

Collection Development is considered as one of the most basic activities affects the user satisfaction with libraries.The purpose of this study was to analyze the collection development of printed and electronic books in the central libraries of universities under the supervision of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in Tehran.

The study was an applied in terms of purpose, which has been done with a qualitative approach of phenomenological type. The data gathering tool was a semi-structured interview, including 15 open- ended questions, through which 10 collection experts or managers of the central libraries of universities in Tehran were interviewed. To design the interview questions, library studies were conducted in the field of collection development, its policy and the process of collecting resources in libraries.

Collection development process in academic libraries in the fields of printed books was influenced by factors that were classified into categories of collection development policies, identification of user needs, provision of sources, budget and collection evaluation. There was no written policy for e-book collection and free downloading, purchasing resources collectively, subscribing through databases, or exchanging and collaborating between libraries were used to provide them. The challenges of libraries in collection development consist of the lack of written policy, the need for librarians to increase their knowledge and library softwares weakness.

It can be concluded central libraries lack a group of important components of collection development. Accordingly, it can be concluded that a set of external and internal factors are involved in the shortcomings. International sanctions, university policies and the way the budget are allocated, the lack of need for collection policy and the lack of planning for collection evaluation were among the influential factors. The results of the present study can be used to identify the collection development methods currently used in university libraries and to address the their weaknesses and challenges.

Every organization’s commitment to its social responsibilities is a way to form a positive mental image among its audience that can affect their attitude towards using of the organization’s services. In the present era, despite the various media with diverse capabilities in the field of providing and disseminating of information, the field of information is experiencing intense competition, and this competition has affected the survival of libraries as a cultural institution with a long history. Therefore, public libraries need to take on social responsibilities to ensure their survival. Accordingly, the present study seeks to determine the impact of users’ perceptions of social responsibility on usage of public library services and resources usage through the perceived organizational image.

This is an applied research that was conducted by using a survey-correlation method with a causal approach. The study population consisted of 119,409 members of Khuzestan public libraries, 383 samples of whom were selected by stratified sampling. Data were collected using a 40-item questionnaire in a five-point Likert scale based on the previous studies such as Becker-Olsen, Cudmore and Hill (2006) and Perez and Torres (2017) and a researcher-made one based on Kamali (2019) research for the usage rate section. The reliability of the questionnaire was assessed using the composite reliability coefficient of Dillon-Goldstein (CR) average variance extracted (AVE) and Cronbach’s alpha and its divergent validity was determined by the HTMT matrix method and the average variance extracted (AVE) measure. After distributing the questionnaires, 345 items (return rate = 90%) were returned and then the data analysis was performed using SPSS25 and Smart-PLS3 software.

The results showed that the level of research variables is higher than the theoretical average (3), which is relatively desirable (mean of the users’ perception of social responsibility = 4.02, mean of use services and resources = 3.4, and mean of the perceived organizational image = 3.89). Furthermore, the impact of users’ perception of social responsibility on the usage of public library services and resources (T-Value = 2.945) and perceived organizational image (T-Value = 25.407) is significant at a lower level than 0.05.

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 The findings of the study showed that the more users understand the social responsibility of public libraries, the more they use the services and information resources of libraries. In addition, the adherence of libraries to social responsibility also led to the formation of a constructive and positive image. For this reason, the studied variables can be taken into account by policy makers and managers in developing organizational strategies.

This study is aimed to comparing the resources available in the Art and Cultural Organization of Tehran Municipality (ACOTM) and the Tehran Public Libraries Institution (PLI) concerning the conformity of these resources to the needs of library members.

This research used Analytic survey method. Sampling method is random stratified sampling. The Public Libraries affiliated with Tehran Municipality and the Public Libraries of the Institution in Tehran are divided into 22 urban districts. In order to take the sample one library is selected from each district. The statistical population of the public libraries of the Art and Cultural Organization of Tehran municipality (ACOTM) consists of 440 entities including 209 men and 231 women. The statistical population of Tehran Public Libraries Institution (PLI) consists of 440 entities including 179 men and 261 women. Questionnaire has used to gather information.

The public libraries of the Art and Cultural Organization of Tehran Municipality (ACOTM) have a better than the Tehran Public Libraries Institution (PLI) status concerning “non-book resources”. The status of libraries of Tehran Public Libraries Institution (PLI) is better than the public libraries of the Art and Cultural Organization of Tehran Municipality (ACOTM) as concerns “Dewey decimal topics”. The significance level of the test is larger than %5 in the two classes of “educational aid books” with significance level of 0.653 and “the accessibility of resources” with significance level of 0.167. Therefore, there is no significant difference between the libraries of the two institutions.

Comparing the current situation of public libraries in Iran, it seems that the number of buildings and their appearance, equipment, quality of resources and most importantly, their services are far from what is needed in a dynamic and growing society.

The present research has been performed to assess how many released final research reports are used by next final research reports.

The citations of 374 final research reports, from a collection of 15324, that were released during 2003 to 2013 were examined.

About 11031 citations have been totally used in the reviewed final reports, only a third of which (32%) were in Persian. Findings of the study show that only 181 (48%) final reports have cited previous research reports as an information resource. The findings from this study also suggest that the final reports released in 2011, 2013, and 2012 respectively , have made more extensive use of previous research reports. Those published in 2003 have made limited use of previous reports. In total, 405 (out of 11031) final reports have been cited by new final reports. Citation ratio of final reports to resources on the whole is 3.7 percent and ratio to Persian resources is about 11.4 percent. In addition, the findings indicate that 133 (33%) of citations to previous reports, represent self-citations.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the information-seeking behaviourof Shiraz Islamic Azad University postgraduate students, and how to prioritize and use of various information sources. The research also investigate the role of demographic characteristics in students information-seeking process, as well as use of various information sources. The research method is surveying. The population of the study consisted of 298 postgraduate students that randomly selected through classified ratio sampling method. A researcher made questionnaire was developed and after measuring its validity and reliability, distributed among the sample in person. Data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics and SPSS software. The results show that the students use from the electronic, printed and humanities resources respectively for fulfilling information needs and updating information. Students believe that information and communication technologies have reduced their visits to libraries. Students seek help from librarians primarily to locate books and other documents and to search for information at the first stage. Students encounter a range of problems and barriers in their information-seeking process that the most important are the Lack of resources, Expensive resources and the scattered information. Despite of the effects of new technologies on students’ presence in academic libraries, all types of information resources are still consulted by them.Various purposes for of information acquisition determines the type of information source, and students identify and use the information resources according to their information needs.

Information literacy treatment is a new concept that is an important part of the disease process and patients should have good information in this area. Therefore, the main purpose of the present study is a study of the needs and information resources for cancer patients in the components of information literacy treatment. The research is an applied type that was conducted by survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of 570 cancer patients who completed their treatment stages at Omid Hospital in Mashhad. They were referred to this center at the time of conducting the research. 230 patients were selected by stratified random sampling as sample size. Data were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire that includes 37 items for 6 components of information treatment literacy (medications, treatment, nutrition, tests, treatment costs and sport) as well as 19 items on various sources of information literacy treatment. The method of scoring the questionnaire was based on a Likert scale (from 1 to 5). The validity of the questionnaire has confirmed by specialists and stability of the questionnaire also approved considering to Cornbrash's coefficient alpha. To calculate the Cronbach's alpha coefficient, 30 questionnaires were distributed among the sample, the results showed that in all dimensions of the questionnaire, the coefficient was more than 9/0. The findings showed that among 6 components of information literacy treatment, 5 components such as medication, treatment, nutrition, testing and treatment costs are the most information needs of the patient and their least information needed was allocated with an average of 2.72 in the sport component. In relation to the information resources, the lowest mean refers to educational classes and the hospital librarian and only in 5 sources, the average was higher than the average level (3), these sources of information were in the order of average: "therapist", "other non-specialists in the disease", "hospital nurse", "nurse in the department of chemotherapy", and "other patients with the same illness". Patients' resources and how to understand the use of information resources should be given special attention because patients are exposed to a wide range of information sources. The role of hospital librarians in this regard can be very high, as they can provide information to the medical staff and also patients because they have enough cognitive information resources and they have the ability to identify quality and reliability of information.

The purpose of this study is to determine the role of scholar librarians in collecting Information resources for research projects nursing and midwifery students in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences.

Type and method of research is descriptive and survey. The statistical population of the study is all nursing and midwifery students studying in 2015 year. According to Krejcie and Morgan's table for 570 people, 225 people were selected as the sample size. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data and Cronbach's alpha Obtained 0.967. In descriptive statistics, frequency, frequency Percent and Mean and in inferential statistics were used for comparing the qualitative variables of the Chi square test and the quantitative variables of the t-test. Data were analyzed by SPSS16.

The findings showed that 34% agree that a Scholar librarian can help in educating and responding to student information needs. 29% agree that a Scholar librarian offers services that help design proposals for research projects. 26% agree that a Scholar librarian is trying to provide the students necessary information resources to develop research projects. 34% agree that a Scholar librarian is trying to serve students in selecting and retrieving sources in designing research projects. Also, 26% agree that a Scholar librarian is aware of student problems in drafting proposals for research projects.

Librarians as researchers of information resources play an important role in the design of student research projects. Scholar librarians play an important role in the provision and retrieval of information resources and familiarity with search strategies.

INTRUDUCTION: Children need help for the use of information, and questioning is the start point of their information behavior or verbal information behavior. While most researches in this area have studied the behavior of the community with reading literacy, the purpose of the present research was to change the verbal information behavior of children in the pre-school age range in Tehran with making them familiarity with information sources. In order to observe the changes in the verbal information behavior in children, the researchers conducted a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test and control and experimental groups. Research population included preschool children centers located in Tehran. Due to the uniformity of the research conditions, two centers were selected where the books were identical and the environmental conditions were in the same conditions. Each preschool class had 10 students. In this way, 20 students were selected as a research sample from two pre-school centers. The data collection tool was a semi-structured questionnaire for parents. The observation made by the teacher in the class was another tool. FINDINGS: According to the views of parents and the first to fourth questions, the status of passive attention (frequent attention to printed and non-printed resources in daily life, passive search (the desire to obtain information from printed and non-printed resources, search activists (use of human resources to do research assignments), and the processing and use of information in doing research assignments for children in the pre-school age were changed in the experimental group. Considering the change in the various verbal information behavior of the experimental group, it can be concluded that this intervention has changed their verbal information behavior, and the results of their use of information sources and the provision of research assignments showed an improvement in this condition in preschool children. Due to the limited possibilities, children's continuous search of information was not investigated in this study. Familiarity with information sources and strengthening the verbal information behavior of children can be beneficial for information behavior in adulthood. Therefore, adding literacy courses and critical thinking units and familiarity with information resources in pre-school education can contribute to the development of the verbal information behavior of children and training researcher students. To further generalize and extend the results, the research should be repeated in larger samples

To evaluate the cost–benefit of electronic resources in central library of Bu-Ali Sina University of Hamedan.
This study is an applied research that has been carried out by the documentary and the survey method. Two scientific methods, usage frequency and cost-benefit analysis were used for gathering information. Statistical society of this research included the subscribed electronic resources of central library of Bu-Ali Sina University, covering electronic journals and databases available through servers of Sport Discus, ASME, ASCE, ACS, MathSciNet, Scopus, Emerald, Econlit, Science Direct, ProQuest, Institute of Physics, Oxford university of Press databases in annual period of 2011.
Findings: Findings showed that redundancy of usage counts based on electronic resources indicator SAMA (count of paper download with HTML and PDF formats, count of abstract downloads) in different databases had significant difference.
Among 12 databases, ScienceDirect had highest counts of usage with 91% and Econlit had the lowest usage counts with 0008/0%. Cost-benefit in different databases had also difference with each other’s and delineated that cost-benefit in OUP database was the highest with 2201 rials, and in Econlit database was the lowest with 24795147 rials.

This research aims to study users’ satisfaction of in-person services in Agricultural Scientific Information and Documentation Center (ASIDC). Awareness of user's issues about information services, technical equipments, printing and electronic information resources and librarians behaviors are the others aims of the research.
The Databases Searching methods, References and Acquisition Desk Services in this research were surveyed. The study was implemented through a descriptive survey. Research data were collected from 287 questionnaires and analyzed by SPSS.
Findings: Among the presence services of ASIDC, the study of scientific resources with 35.9%; and research with 31.3% were the main reason for using the information and the newspaper and email with 07% were less reason. The search strategy service in databases with 41.5% used the most and other services (final research reports and thesis section) with 2.43% were the less. Among the scientific resources the book with 55.4% has most use and audio visual resources with.07% have the less.
Users were most satisfied with 93.2% for search service in databases and less were 71.4% for (final research reports and thesis section). In general, 82.2% of users were satisfied with the information services provided in ASIDC.

Different studies which are carried out on the credibility assessment of Web-based information, have taken different factors and levels into account including websites, information sources, information, messages, and the context within which credibility assessment is made. There are still other factors which do not depend on the source in question, but are related to the user who searches the information, and his or her characteristics, attributes, and behaviors. In the present study, first the role and position of users in credibility assessment was reviewed through investigating 7 credibility assessment models. Then, the most important factors and criteria of the models were illustrated according to the views of faculty members.
This study used the survey and library-based methods. The population included 1975 full-time faculty members of region 1 of Islamic Azad University (IAU). Based on Cochran formula, the sample of the study included 322 participants. To test the hypotheses, one-way variance was used. The data were processed in SPSS.
Findings: The findings showed that criteria such as user’s purpose, user’s competence (knowledge of the topic information technology, the Internet, and evaluation), and motivation were among the most important criteria for the users’ credibility assessment of information, from the faculty members’ perspective.

This research explores the information use by senior managers of research centers of ministry of science, research and technology in decision-making. The research was carried out as analytical survey and data was gathered by a researcher made questionnaire. The study population included 120 senior managers of research centers of the ministry of science, research and technology. Finding shows that the most appropriate criteria’s of data quality from the perspective of managers are accuracy, correctness, being free from mistakes, and adequate scope of information for decision making. The most appropriate information sources are electronic information services, professional associates and consultants, experts from the field of decision making, subordinate managers, and company library. Senior managers use information for strategic decision making and recognize the various approaches and alternatives in decision making. Barriers to use information in managerial decision making include the absence or lack of time for data collection, lack of information sources in Persian, and lack of access to information resources. The relative importance of data quality indicators and ranking them depends on the type of information use. Individual information sources to obtain information are most desirable for managers. The use of information in decision-making activities of managers is directly related to their managerial level and they use information to decide on the general policies and determine objectives of the organization, coordinating policies, and control of performance and current activities of the organization.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the opinion of blind and visually impaired of the possibility of employing gadgets in delivering resources and information services to them. The research method was descriptive - survey and questionnaires were used to collect data. The data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. The result showed that respondent approved the use of information resources and services through variety of gadgets and the fact that gadgets are generally more desirable. Based on the agreement in regard to the gadgets used as resources and information services to blind and visually impaired it was found that mobile phone and pocket PC were in the first place (56. 7%)، Google glasses in second place (55%) e-book readers in third place (54. 4%)، tablets in fourth place (54. 2%) and RFID systems in fifth place (44. 1%). Based on the findings of the study it is concluded that blinds ability to use gadgets in optimal utilization of resources and information services is possible and more than desirable. As a results we can make proper use of the new technology in order to present resources and information services to blinds and visually impaired.

This research aimed to determine the status of information resource organization in Iranian digital libraries. The research method was analytical survey. Researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data in order to study the status of research population about information resources organization. In fact، 38 Iranian digital libraries were made research population of this research. Findings showed that studied digital library applications have many capabilities to organize information resources. Some of these capabilities are relation between bibliographic records and related records in documentation format، Using Z39. 50 in client side، allows entering group of resources، and so on. Moreover، digital libraries have a lot of chaos in organizing information resources. For instance، digital libraries just fill title، author، subject، publisher، year of publication، author (added entity) in more than 70 percent for Farsi book database. This status is not demonstrated for other databases in digital libraries.

This study investigates the priorities of collection development for the Digital Library of Shiraz University on the bases of the viewpoints of faculty members and post- graduate students. This is a quantitative survey. A questionnaire was used for data collection. The number of the research population was 5261 of which 351 persons were selected as sample of the study. Descriptive and inferential statistic were used to analyze data by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).Findings/ Findings showed that the highest priority for collection development was given to research reports produced by academic staff. Electronic books were the highest priority for library patrons. The highest priority for collection development was given to research reports produced by academic staff. Subjects of the study gave importance to index and access points more than other measures that have been effective in collection development. Users preferred fulltext in comparison to other textual formats. Among different information formats, library users prefer images in JPEG format. The majority of subjects of the study agreed to digitization of special and unique collections and integration of physical and digital resources as well. They showed their agreement with 21/21 percent allocation of resources to digital and physical information resources. Originality/Value: The highest priority of digital library is to serve the information needs of its users. In this study, we attempted to explore information needs of potential users of digital library of Shiraz University and the responses of this library to its patron's needs.