Aziz Hedayati Khoshemehr; maryam samadi; Rahim Shahbazi; Abolfazl Ghasemzadeh
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between information literacy and professional ethics, knowledge sharing and social capital of librarians of public libraries in East Azerbaijan province.Method: The present study is applied. The research method is descriptive-correlation ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between information literacy and professional ethics, knowledge sharing and social capital of librarians of public libraries in East Azerbaijan province.Method: The present study is applied. The research method is descriptive-correlation and specifically based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population includes all the staff of public libraries of East Azerbaijan province with 370 people. 250 of them were selected by simple random sampling. Four standard questionnaires were used to collect information in this study.Findings: The findings showed that information literacy, professional ethics and knowledge sharing in librarians are high and social capital is moderate. There is also a positive and significant relationship between information literacy and professional ethics, knowledge sharing and social capital, and this means that information literacy has a direct effect on professional ethics, knowledge sharing and social capital.Conclusion: Strengthening the level of information literacy promotes the level of professional ethics, knowledge sharing and social capital of public library librarians. Therefore, public library managers should try to increase their information literacy in order to strengthen the professional ethics, knowledge sharing and social capital of librarians.
Abolfazl Ghasemzadeh; Mohammad Razzaghi; Aziz Hedayati Khoshemehr
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The aim of this study was to investigate the role of social capital in organizational and social entrepreneurship of Shiraz University staff with emphasis on the mediating role of knowledge management in the second semester of 2019-2020. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and nature and ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the role of social capital in organizational and social entrepreneurship of Shiraz University staff with emphasis on the mediating role of knowledge management in the second semester of 2019-2020. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and nature and in terms of data collection is a descriptive correlation based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study included all employees of Shiraz University, 558 people. The sample size was 200 according to the statistical population and using simple random sampling method and Morgan table.Standard questionnaires of social capital, organizational entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and knowledge management were used to collect data. The face and content validity of the questionnaires were confirmed by researchers and experts. The reliability of the questionnaires was calculated by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.94, 0.71, 0.94 and 0.87, respectively. The obtained data were analyzed using correlation method and structural equation modeling using SPSS and Lisrel software. The results showed that social capital has a direct, positive and meaningful effect on organizational entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, social capital on knowledge management, knowledge management on organizational entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, Shiraz University staff. Social capital with the mediating role of knowledge management has an impact on organizational entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship of Shiraz University staff. Also, most of the total effect is related to the effect of social capital on organizational entrepreneurship.Social capital has had a direct positive effect on organizational and social entrepreneurship of Shiraz University staff. Social capital can also have a positive and significant effect on organizational and social entrepreneurship of employees through knowledge management. Therefore, employee knowledge management can strengthen the effect of social capital on organizational and social entrepreneurship. Therefore, in order to achieve organizational and social entrepreneurship, it seems necessary to pay attention to social capital and knowledge management.
Leila Khalili; Vahideh Dalili; Aziz Hedayati Khoshemehr
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The aim of this research is to study the quality of services in the public libraries of Tabriz. This applied research was conducted with a quantitative approach and a survey method. The statistical population of the study was 37931 members of the Public Libraries of Tabriz and the sample size was 380 ...
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The aim of this research is to study the quality of services in the public libraries of Tabriz. This applied research was conducted with a quantitative approach and a survey method. The statistical population of the study was 37931 members of the Public Libraries of Tabriz and the sample size was 380 cases that were selected by stratified random sampling. The data collection tool was the standard LIBQUAL questionnaire and its reliability in the present study based on Cronbach's alpha was 0.93. In order to answer the questions and hypotheses, descriptive and inferential statistics were used using SPSS 24 statistical software. In general, in the three dimensions of LIBQUAL, the average level of minimum expectations of respondents was 4.39, the average level of received services was 5.70 and the average level of maximum expectations was 6.68. The difference between users' expectations and the level of received services in each dimension of the LIBQUAL was not higher than of the maximum expectations. The results of paired t-test confirmed the existence of a significant difference between the maximum expectations and the level of received services by users and also the existence of a significant difference between the minimum expectations and the level of received services by users in all dimensions of the LIBQUAL. It can be concluded that although the libraries have been able to meet the minimum expectations of the users in all cases partly, but the maximum expectations of the users have not been met yet.