HamidReza Mahmoodi; Mohammad Hassanzadeh; Fatemeh Zandian
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Despite the breadth and richness of the subject and the variety of topics in the field of knowledge and information science facing researchers, the field suffers from theoretical poverty. The purpose of this study is to identify the theoretical barriers in information science and knowledge. This is a ...
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Despite the breadth and richness of the subject and the variety of topics in the field of knowledge and information science facing researchers, the field suffers from theoretical poverty. The purpose of this study is to identify the theoretical barriers in information science and knowledge. This is a qualitative research. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. Members of the faculty of knowledge and information science at Iranian universities formed the statistical population of this study. Theoretical sampling method was used for sample selection. In total, 18 faculty members of Birjand, Tarbiat Modarres, Tabriz, Shahid Bahona and Shahid Chamran universities interviewed. The data were coded based on the grounded theory in three steps. MAX QDA software was used for data encoding. Finally 10 core categories were obtained. Among the 10 core categories, the categories of "shaky personality" and "belief system failure" were selected as the central classes. According to Glazer’s recommendation, the belief system failure was referred to the shaky personality class. In other words, the shaky personality class was identified as the central class. For the first time in Iran and outside Iran, the barriers of theorizing in knowledge and information science have been examined with a qualitative approach. Therefore, on the one hand, the subject under study and adopting a qualitative approach on the other hand, demonstrate its value and authenticity.
Fateme Zandian; Zainab Vafai; Mohammad Hassanzadeh
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The aim is "to assess the extent to which the objectives of in-service training courses are met in central libraries of Tehran public universities". The used method is surveying. Three researcher-made questionnaires were used to collect data and descriptive and analytical methods were used to answer ...
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The aim is "to assess the extent to which the objectives of in-service training courses are met in central libraries of Tehran public universities". The used method is surveying. Three researcher-made questionnaires were used to collect data and descriptive and analytical methods were used to answer questions and test hypotheses. The research population is the central libraries of 13 public universities in Tehran. To assess the validity of the questionnaire, the questionnaire was given to the relevant experts. In order to determine the reliability of the questionnaires, the questionnaires were distributed among 30 participants as a trial. Using SPSS software, the confidence coefficient was calculated with Cronbach's alpha. The results showed that the managers, unlike the participants, evaluated the level of achievement of the main goals set for in-service training courses at a single level. From the viewpoint of the participants, the quality of activities component with the highest (3.20) and the motivation component with the mean (2.82) had the lowest growth.
leyla Zadvali Khajeh; Fatemeh Zandian
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of positive thinking on increasing the communication skills of librarians in general libraries of Tabriz city. This research is an applied research method and is a survey method. The population of this study is librarians of general libraries located ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of positive thinking on increasing the communication skills of librarians in general libraries of Tabriz city. This research is an applied research method and is a survey method. The population of this study is librarians of general libraries located in Tabriz city. According to the relatively small number of statistical population, sampling was done by census method and a questionnaire (5 options based on Likert scale) was distributed among all librarians. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 91% which is an indicator of the reliability of the questionnaire. The distributed questionnaire consists of two parts of communication skills and positive thinking, SPSS software was used to analyze the data.The results of the research showed that the amount of positive thinking effects on non-verbal skills is higher than other skills, and the level of positive thinking among librarians is relatively good.The overall results of the research indicate that the level of positive thinking between female librarians and those under the age of 35 years and with the level of undergraduate education is higher than other groups.Also, the higher the level of positive thinking, the more intense non-verbal communication librarians It turns out.At the end of the research, there are suggestions for holding positive thinking courses and communication skills for librarians.
Fateme Zandian; Setare Kashmiri; Mohammad Hassanzadeh
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Purpose: The main purpose of the present research is to investigate the specialists’ use of specialized libraries in Iranian automotive industry research and development centers. In this regard, the manner of meeting the information needs of experts, and their satisfaction from libraries affiliated ...
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Purpose: The main purpose of the present research is to investigate the specialists’ use of specialized libraries in Iranian automotive industry research and development centers. In this regard, the manner of meeting the information needs of experts, and their satisfaction from libraries affiliated with the three major centers of automotive industry research and development including IPCO, NPDI (Iran Khodro), and Saipa, have been investigated.
Methodology: This research is conducted in a survey method and the surveyed community includes all the experts from the three centers involved in research and development processes. The total population of the survey is 855 people, and according to the Morgan table, the sample size is 265 people. Out of the distributed questionnaires, 178 (67.1%) were returned.
Research findings: Most of the experts in the Iranian automotive industry research and development centers (52.8%) use the library less than an hour per week, and their main purpose in using the library is to increase specialized information (80.8%) and to update information (47.7%). Also, it can be concluded from the results that the most widely used methods for providing information among the experts of automotive industry research and development centers are Internet searching (96.1%), and using the library at work (66.9%). Specialists of the Iranian automotive industry research and development centers use English text (11.6%), English papers (11.3%), and standards (9.7%) to meet their information needs. The degree of satisfaction in most of the experts (49.4%) from the affiliated libraries is moderate, and up to 50% of specialists are very satisfied with the library staff. The most important problems encountered by specialists in using the library are as follows: lack of resources (73.6%), outmoded resources (67.4%), unawareness of resource existence (55.1%), and limited work hours of the library ( 51.7%).
Results: The results show that most of the specialists in automotive industry research and development centers are more likely to use electronic resources, and also they sometimes while using the library encounter problems such as lack of resources, outmoded resources, unawareness of resource existence, and limited work hours of the library. The most used method for providing information among the experts working in the auto industry research and development centers is searching using the Internet
Fateme Zandian; Maryam Janm Mohammady; Mohammad Hassanzadeh
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the management style of Tehran University libraries from the viewpoint of managers and staff and also to explain the relationship between the leadership style of managers and their creativity. A survey research was used to evaluate the mentioned components. ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the management style of Tehran University libraries from the viewpoint of managers and staff and also to explain the relationship between the leadership style of managers and their creativity. A survey research was used to evaluate the mentioned components. The statistical population included all the staff and directors of affiliated libraries of University of Tehran located in Tehran with 110 staff and 18 managers from 23 libraries. The required data was collected using questionnaires. The Leadership Style Questionnaire of Likert was used to determine the leadership style of the managers and the organizational creativity questionnaire was used to determine the managers' creativity. The Likert leadership style questionnaire was used to examine eight organizational indicators. The results of the analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the views of managers and staff about the leadership style of the Tehran University libraries. Managers rated their leadership style, according to the four Likert styles, as the third style and very close to the fourth (collaborative) style, while the staff assessed their managers’ leadership as the third Likert style, namely, advisory and leaning towards the second (Dedicative-Benevolent) style. Conducting the Kruskal-Wallis test confirmed a significant difference between the leadership styles of managers in different libraries. Also, the Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there was no significant relationship between the leadership style of managers and their creativity. The latest finding of the research shows that there is no significant difference between the level of creativity in library managers with a faculty member position and library managers with a librarian's position.
