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The present study was performed with the aim of evaluation of the library anxiety level of graduate students in Shiraz University.
The research population consisted of 5700 students from Shiraz University graduate students, 229 students (139 girls and 90 boys). Sampling method was stratified. To assess the level of library anxiety, Multidimensional Model of Van Kampen (2003) was used. Data were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics, and t-test and analysis of variance.
Findings: The research findings related to the extent of students anxiety by the four level of anxiety show that much larger population of subjects have high anxiety. Also, between the library anxiety with the use of the library and the aim of using library is significant differences. But between the library anxiety and the average time of presence in the library isnt significant difference. Evaluation of the anxiety in the different colleges showed that students of economic college have the highest level of anxiety and student of Electricity College have the less anxiety.
It seems that library anxiety is a serious problem among graduate students of Shiraz University who need to use the library and information recourses.

This study tends to investigate the reasons of interpersonal trust and the results of trust in online scientific social networks.
The applied Research has been used cluster sampling to collect data. The study population consisted of Shiraz university and Persian Gulf university faculties. A sampling of 269 person was determined by Morgan table according to whole population (900 person). In order to gathering data it was used Wu, Chen and Chang (2010) questionnaire. SPSS version 21 was used to analyze data.
Results showed that Among the reasons that create trust among scientific social networks members, Satisfaction (Mean score= 27.2 and T score= 53./6) is the most effective. According to the obtained correlation coefficient between two variables commitment and trust (0.798), commitment is the result of trust in online scientific social networks. Furthermore, the correlation coefficient between two variables Stickiness and trust (0.744) showed that the stickiness is the results of trust between members of online scientific social networks.
Conclusion. Due to high impact of satisfaction on creating trust between members of online scientific social networks, we should create consent and satisfaction of members, in order to provide a place that researchers think these networks are good places to present their specialized knowledge and experience and they can exchange their information and knowledge.

The aim of this study was to do a survey on the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and knowledge management (KM) of Information Science specialists working at 13 Shiraz University libraries.
This study, as objective view is a fundamental research and in terms of methodology, is a correlation research. The used tools of the study include the CE questionnaire of Hooman and knowledge management questionnaire of Nayyer; and data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics.
Findings: Results of the study showed thatthere is a significant relationshipbetween corporate entrepreneurship and knowledge management of the Information Science specialists. The results also showed thatamong the components of CE, between the "hard working, responsible and successful"with knowledge management, there is significant relationship, but between the dimensions of risk taking, internal control, creativity, flexibility, tolerance of ambiguity and verbal narrative with their knowledge management, there is no significant relationship.
It can be concluded thatthe Information Science specialists consider and utilizethe KM as a conscious strategy of identifying, evaluating, organizing, processing and storingin order to raise public opinion and increase innovation and entrepreneurship in their libraries.

This study investigates the satisfaction score of the potential users from resources and services offered by the digital library of Shiraz University.
This is a quantitative study and the type of research project is the survey. A questionnaire is used for data collection. The study sample consisted of faculty members and graduate students at Shiraz University For this study, a researcher-made questionnaire was distributed to collect data from the members of potential user's of digital library of Shiraz University. The number of the subjects of the study was 5860 of which 357 persons were selected through cluster sampling method of the study.
Findings: This paper showed that the average satisfaction from the current status was at the middle level. The highest priority for collection development was given to research reports produced by the academic staff. The highest and the lowest levels of satisfaction were related to the ease of access and the provisional level of information, respectively. The lack of user name and password was the main reason for not using or low using of the digital library.

The present study has been done with the goal to assessing the possibility of prediction of information seeking behavior of graduate students based on the dimensions of goal orientations and creativity. Study sample consisted of 221graduate students from Shiraz University (134 girls and87boys) were selected with cluster sampling method. Gathering data tool consists of information seeking behavior questionnaires (Khosrowgerdy، Olumy، Naghshine&Mohseny،1388)، goal orientation questionnaire designed by the researcher، and also multiple choice paper and pencil test (MPPT) questionnaire for measuring creativity ((Abedy،1372) that were completed by students. To determine reliability of measures، Cronbach Alpha Coefficient and to examine validity، factor analysis methods were used. The test results asserted acceptable validity and reliability of instruments. Research data analyzed with Multiple Regressions Test. Results of simultaneous multiple regressions showed that، a) all dimension of goal orientation was positive predictor of relevance judgment dimension of information seeking behavior. b) avoidance goal orientation dimension and elaboration dimension of creativity was positive and fluency dimension of creativity was negative predictor of time as a motivated factor dimension of information seeking behavior. c) learning goal orientation and avoidance goal orientation dimensions was positive predictor of confirm previous knowledge dimension of information seeking behavior. d) learning goal orientation dimension and originality dimension of creativity was positive predictor of creating new ideas dimension of information seeking behavior. e) Trying to search for information dimension of information seeking behavior only through learning goal orientation dimension is predicted as positive and significant. to attention on existence of positive and meaningful relationship between goal orientations، dimensions of creativity with information seeking behavior and possibility of prediction of information seeking behavior of graduate students by aforesaid psychological variants، can explain that success or un success in information seeking behavior of students and access to information and optimum work on researching functions are not only productive of students specially skills but also are impressible of psychological issues like goal orientations and creativity.

The purpose of the present study was to assess service quality at Shiraz University Libraries using LibQUAL Model. To achieve this aim, the minimum- desired and maximum- perceived levels of users’ expectations were examined in three dimensions of library service quality including "the effect of service", "the library as a place", and "the information control".
Using a survey method, the present study investigated the viewpoints of a sample of 365 users via libQUAL questionnaire and the data were analyzed using non-parametric statistics.
Findings: In all the three libQUAL model dimensions, the librarie's service quality was lower than the minimum and the desired levels of the users’ expectations. The "effect of service" dimension gained the highest rate compared to the two other dimensions. In other words, the emotions and behaviors of the librarians met the minimum expectations of the library users. Also, the "information control" dimension received the lowest rating among the three dimensions.
Shiraz University libraries need to improve the quality of their services in various aspects of service quality; especially, in ICT, information materials and library spaces. Among the main solutions, one may observe holding training courses for librarians and users, creating participatory management atmospheres, implementing advanced information systems, strengthening library marketing, eradicating the deficiencies of the National Consortium, and changing library architecture and interior designs in accordance with scientific principles

The present study aims to measure and rank Shiraz universities in implementing knowledge management from librarian's point of view by using ANP-TOPSIS technique. This research method is a descriptive-survey and the population included all librarians of Shiraz University, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz University of Technology in 2011-2012(88 persons). Due to the limited size of population, no sampling was carried out. The instrument for collecting data was a researcher-developed questionnaire with the Likert scale. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by experienced teachers and the reliability was estimated to be 0.86. Findings revealed that all the factors of Hissig’s model (creation, storage, distribution and application of the knowledge) were tsken into account in the implementation of KM in the Shiraz universities libraries. Ranking the factors of Hissig's model by ANP-TOPSIS technique showed that "distribution of knowledge" is the most important factor and “application of knowledge” has the least impact on the implementing knowledge management. In ranking the universities of Shiraz in implementing knowledge management showed that Shiraz University has the best performance. Also there was not a significant difference among the average of subjects based on demographic variables i.e. gender, background of employment, type of work, and library type (P≥0.05), but regarding the academic degree there was significant differences in all factors Hissing model (P≤0.05).

Object: This research aimed to survey the aspects of information technology (IT) and its effects on organizational structure and management in the libraries of Shiraz University using qualitative and relationship method. To gather data، a questionnaire was prepared on based on 7 points Likert scale and distributed among 64 staff and experts of the Shiraz University Libraries. Then، data was analyzed in method of qualitative and inference by SPSS software. The results show that IT development has effect on organizational structure and specially decreases centralization. But the relationship between IT development and management practices improvement was not confirmed. IT development has the most effect on centralization’s decrease، training and personnel empowering and communications improvement. Although there is not any relationship between IT، evaluation performance and human resource selection. Originality: In a practical way، the present research studied the impact of pre-assumptions of IT development and it’s relation to organizational structure and management functions in the libraries. Thus، the results of this study can be used in libraries and other similar organizations and can remove possible weaknesses and strong existing strengthens.

The present study intended to analyze and compare electronic and printed journals usage by faculty members and postgraduate students of Shiraz School of Science. This research is of a descriptive and survey type. A questionnaire was used to collect data. The study population included 65 faculty members and 130 postgraduate students in Shiraz School of Science in the 2009-2010 academic year. The results of the study showed that both faculty members and postgraduate students make use of e-journals more than printed journals. Comparisons between the two cases reveal that faculty members make more use of e-journals than postgraduate students. Both groups confirm the importance of each of printed and electronic journals at “high” level but faculty members regard e-journals as more important and prefer use of e-journals. 79.9% of respondents believe that electronic form is a suitable substitute for printed form of journals. The findings also show that e-journals and printed journals meet the information needs of respondents respectively at “high” level and less than “average level”. Respondents introduce finding specific information, authoring and translating book and papers, and conducting research as their most important reasons in using both formats of journals. The most notable obstacles towards making optimum use of e-journals in view of respondents are not being informed of existence of required e-journals, lack of information about the resources available at e-journal databases and absence of the e-journals related to their fields of study. Although respondents totally declare their skill in making use of e-journals at “fairly high” level, faculty members are more skilled than postgraduate students. Generally, 64.4% of respondents are in need of learning use of e-journals while postgraduate students seem to be more in need of such a skill.

Probability of correlation between gender، field of study، grade، of students and the level of eight dimensions of library anxiety were examined. Design/Methodology/Approach: Sample comprised of 123 students. A revised version of Van Kampen''s Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale was used. 79 percent of students have experienced average and high levels of anxiety. Library and Information Science students showed the least، while students of Exceptional Children and Sport Science showed the highest level of anxiety. Male students experienced higher levels of library anxiety than females، and econd and third term students respectively showed lowest and highest levels of library anxiety. Access to services showed evoked highest level of anxiety، wheras contact with the and library staff caused the lowest level، on average. Library anxiety is a common among postgraduate students of the Faculty

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.

this study aims to compare the M. A and Ph. D. theses of technical and engineering courses in Shiraz University with ISO 214 international standards. content analysis and descriptive survey methods were used in this study. The population included 1194 Persian abstracts of M. A. theses and 23 abstracts of Ph. D. theses during the period of 1999 - 2009. To collect data، we compared the abstracts with ISO 214 standard. The findings showed that M. A and Ph. D. abstracts (x=5. 94، SD=1. 66) are in conformity with ISO international standards. The content of abstracts and the “aim” elements had the most conformity (89. 1%) with ISO 214; however the style and representation and the “key word” elements showed a low conformity with ISO 214. In general، Ph. D. theses abstracts (x=7. 04، SD=. 47) are more in accordance with ISO 214 than M. A theses abstracts (x=5. 92، SD= 1. 67). The abstracts of aerospace engineering theses showed the most conformity in terms of content (x=4، SD= 0) and in terms of representation style (x=3. 15، SD=. 69)

This research studies the extent to which graduate students at Shiraz University use the mentioned databases and the problems that they have in this regard. Methodology/Approach: The research population consists of higher education students of Shiraz University among which a sample of 360 students were selected through random sampling. The data collection tool was a questionnaire. Its validity and reliability (α=0. 902) have been verified. The higher education students of Shiraz University frequently use online full text databases. Students mostly use ScienceDirect and Elsevier databases. Students mostly use online databases for doing their thesis and coursework and for writing and translating books and papers. Since the most important reason for not using the mentioned databases by students is that they are not familiar with them، ongoing educational programs must be planned for this matter. On the other hand، information and communication infrastructures must be developed for providing services related to the databases outside the university.

The aim of this research is to study the scientific outputs of faculty members of Shiraz University at national and International (ISI) levels in an 8-year period from 2000 to 2007. The population of this survey research included 543 faculty members of Shiraz University. Findings show that in the period studied, 8507 scientific outputs including 4218 journal papers, 3308 conference papers, 515 research projects, 376 books and 90 inventions and novel works were produced. In proportion to the number of faculty members, the highest number of scientific outputs were produced by the Faculty of Agriculture and the lowest number were produced by the Agriculture Faculty of Darab. The faculty members have mostly published their scientific papers in foreign journals, however, most of the papers have been written in Persian. Findings show that 87.90 % of the works produced are authored and only 12.09 % have been translated. The numbers of scientific outputs had greatly increased during the years studied and the highest numbers of outputs were produced in 2007. A total of 1853 papers of faculty members were published in the ISI database, the largest portion of which was produced by the Faculty of Science and smallest portion by the Faculty of Literature and Humanities. The number of papers published in ISI by faculty members grew considerably in the period studied and the highest number of papers was published in 2007. The findings from analysing 39 journals in which the highest number of papers of faculty members of Shiraz University were published showed that the papers of the research population have an international reputation and a high impact factor

This survey aims at studying Shiraz university faculty's usage of Electronic Journals. Data is gathered via questionnaire. Results show that faculty use both of electronic and print journals, but trends to use the electronic journals are a little bit more than print journals. This is mostly apparent in faculty of engineering. In addition to that, there is no meaningful relationship between sex and amount of usage. Results show that rising the amount of electronic journals usage, results in raising the number of journals and articles faculty study. The most important reason of faculty for using electronic and print journals together is the lack of retrospective issues in electronic format. This survey reveals that faculty's familiarity and experiments for using electronic journals are rather high. According to respondents, the most important feature of electronic journals is the capability of following the references and the most important approach for locating them is searching through full text databases. It is advisable that the university authorities arrange workshops for the faculty to enhance their knowledge and know-how about e-journals and their new features and capabilities. This would contribute to excellence in research and education in Shiraz University.

This research identifies the characteristics of the cited literature in 138 Library and Information Science theses submitted to Shiraz and Tehran Universities between 2001 and 2009. The findings reveal that for a total of 6010 citations compiled from the studied theses, the average number of citations for Tehran University was 46.79 and for Shiraz University it was 37.1. In both universities journals with 40.33% and books with 22.74% were respectively the most cited form of publications. Among the total citations, 3391 refered to English sources (56.42%) and 2607 citations refered to Persian resources (43.38%). The average half life for English and Persian journals of the two universities was totally calculated 11.74 years. The core English and Persian journals in Library and Information Science were identified by means of Bradford’s Law: respectively 4 and 3 titles. Subject distribution of citations shows the subjects "Information and Communication Technology (ICT)"(14.10%), "storage and retrieval of computer information" (10.90%), and "patrons and use of library" (9.74%) received the highest number of citations. Geographical distribution of citations revealed that Iran, the U.S.A., and Britain were the most cited places of publication, each with 45.42, 26.83 and 14.27 percentages respectively.