جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Tehran City » در نشریات گروه « کتابداری و مدیریت اطلاعات »

The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the level of participation of public library librarians in Tehran in online social networks to provide services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and was conducted using a survey method. The research population at the time of the research (July and August 2023) included all the librarians of public libraries in Tehran (152 people) from whom a sample of 109 people was selected according to Morgan’s table, and 105 questionnaires were analyzed in the final analysis. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. Data analysis was done at two levels of descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS (version 26). In order to check the average difference between the main research variables, one-way analysis of variance parametric test was used.

The results showed that the librarians had the greatest knowledge about “Bale” messenger and the lowest knowledge about “SoroushPlus”. The level of knowledge of librarians regarding social networking tools and the level of influence of the organization on their knowledge of tools has been lower than the average level. The level of necessity and acceptance of social networking tools is “high” and the level of use of these tools by librarians is “moderate”. There was a significant difference between the average opinions of librarians about knowledge and acceptance as well as acceptance and use of these networks, while no significant difference was observed between the average opinions of participants about the two variables of knowledge and use of online social networks.

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Although according to the results of this research, the level of influence of the organization in the librarians’ knowledge of social networking tools is reported to be lower than average, and the level of influence of the organization in the knowledge of content production tools in these sites is reported to be small, the role of the organization in the librarians’ knowledge cannot be ignored. Therefore, the results of this research, by determining the attitude of the research population towards social networking sites, the extent of acceptance and use of these sites by them and identifying the weaknesses and strengths of public libraries in using social networking sites, can be applied by managers and planners of public libraries in order to provide a suitable platform for using the social networking sites, remove barriers to using them, and improve information service.

Personal Archiving is a branch of archival science and genealogy, focusing on the capture, classify, maintain, store, retrieve, use, archive, preservation, dispose, and management of an individual's personal documents and other documentary output, generally by the individuals concerned. A personal archive is an archive created by a person with personal goals, needs and interests. The lack of personal archives, especially for artists, can disperse their artworks throughout their lives, increasing the lack of coherence of their artworks and personal information. A personal archive is established through identifying, capturing, collecting, organizing, indexing, storing, integrating, retrieving, and sharing of personal works, documents and information. Personal archives are an important cultural heritage of a country, because they represent the cultural heritage of individuals and their individual, social, economic and cultural activities in the society. Therefore, the present research seeks to study the requirements for the creation of personal archives of artists in Tehran.

The statistical population of this study included 271 artists from the Institute for the Development of Visual Arts, in three fields of painting, sculpture and graphic art who has held at least two individual exhibitions. Participants were selected by snowball method and introduced by previous participants. The research method was mixed. First, the literature were analyzed and reviewed. Second, the interviews have been conducted. Third, the contents of interviews were analyzed descriptively and qualitatively, using thematic analysis and the MAXQDA software. Forth, the requirements for creating personal archives of artists were extracted. Finally, in the second phase, according to the requirements extracted from the interviews, a questionnaire was developed and was filled out by participants.

The result of chi-square test based on the degree of freedom of each factor showed that there was a significant relationship between the mentioned factors and the creation of the artists' personal archives. The mean of conservation factor was 3.679 with a factor loading 0.94, the mean of storage factor was 3.636 with a factor loading of 0.92, the mean of factor of acquisition (collecting) was 3.447 with a factor loading of 0.86, the mean of factor of retrieval and access was 3.17 with a factor loading of 0.81; and the mean of organization factor was 2.791 with a factor loading of 0.79.

The results of analysis of questionnaires' data revealed that the requirements and priorities to create personal archives for artists in order of importance include: conservation, storage, acquisition (collecting), retrieval, access, and organization. In analyzing these essentials, physical and digital protection of personal information as the underpinnings of the protection agent, is vital for the artists of Tehran. It is worth noting that protecting the physical archives is harder than protecting digital archives. It is suggested to create a database of artists' personal archives to allow them sharing their personal archives and experiences.

To design a model of public library services to the elderly and to validate it among the librarians in Tehran City.

This is an applied research in terms of purpose using a mixed exploratory design. In the qualitative section of the current research, 19 experts and stakeholders in the field of elderly services were interviewed using a semi-structured in-depth interview technique. The data were analyzed using the qualitative content analysis method by the MAXQDA software and thus the components of the elderly service model were obtained. In the quantitative section, the research instrument (questionnaire) was developed and a sample of 114 librarians of Tehran was selected using the simple random sampling method. The face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by four faculty members and the factor validity was assessed by the factor analysis. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by the Cronbach's alpha measure and was 0.941.

The proposed model for providing services to the elderly in public libraries has seven components which are as follows, respectively in terms of importance: "building and space", "equipment and tools of ancillary services", "materials and resources for the elderly", "internet services", "human resources", "and "planning and budget".

 This paper directs the attention of public library managers to this fact  that based on the proposed model, they should identify the elderly's needs and thus provide different services and facilities for them to use public libraries. This will enable the proper and optimal use of their leisure time by elderly people and the advancement of libraries in offering services to visitors.

This study investigated the relationship between knowledge leadership and organizational improvement from the viewpoint of librarians of central libraries of state universities of Tehran.

The present study is a descriptive-correlational one. The statistical population consisted of all librarians of central libraries of state universities of Tehran, which totally have 140 people. For data collection, Vitala’s Knowledge Leadership Scale (2004) and Orton Inventory Improvement (2007) were used. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, statistical tests and SPSS software version 19 were used.

The results revealed that knowledge leadership status with the 3.6005% and organizational improvement with 3.5500% among the librarians of the central libraries of state universities of Tehran was higher than the mean. Moreover, there was a positive and significant relationship between knowledge leadership and organizational improvement.

It can be concluded that there is a positive and significant relationship between knowledge leadership and organizational improvement of librarians. Multiple regression analysis also showed that knowledge leadership has the potential to predict organizational improvement. Among the components of knowledge leadership, the component of learning tendency has the greatest impact in predicting organizational improvement.

The aim of this studies evaluating the usability of digital libraries in governmental universities at Tehran. Evaluative Survey methodology was used for the survey applying measures of search, navigation, forms layout, contrast and scan ability, optimization (size & print), help, usage of windows and speed and errors through a questionnaire containing 36 questions. The research population included 124,800 undergraduate, Master and PhD students, from three governmental universities of Tehran, Sanati Sharif and Sanati Amirkabir. Stratified random sampling method was applied to select 378 students as a sample. For data analysis, SPSS software was used along with descriptive techniques as well as independent test and ANOVA where needed.
Findings: The findings indicated that the criteria relating to the usability of digital libraries in the three Tehran universities evaluated to be in relatively good condition and there is no significant difference between the digital libraries for the usability criteria.
Conclution: Survey results show that these libraries should be improved by managers, librarians, and experts for a user-friendly system, thereby improving the quality of related universities digital libraries.

The present study aimed to investigate the impact of the parents’ education on the improvement of information literacy among the pre-university students (their children) of private and public high schools located in district 2 of Tehran.
The methodology of the research was based on library study in the literature review and theoretical literature, and survey method (descriptive and analytical) in data analysis. The data were gathered through a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of 31 closed questions and one open question. The sample size was 689 students whom were selected randomly in each cluster from 6777. 688 (99.9%) questionnaires were. In order to analyze the data, descriptive and statistical methods were used.
Findings: The correlation coefficient between parent's level of education and information literacy level of students was 0.266 for fathers and 0.254 for mothers. There is a positive correlation between education level of parents, and directing students to information literacy.
Those parents who have higher level of education and information literacy are expected to have children with higher level of information literacy.