Ali Jalali Dizajji; Mehdi Alipour Hafezi; Hossein Adabi Firozjah
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Purpose: The aim of this studies evaluating the usability of digital libraries in governmental universities at Tehran.Methodology: Evaluative Survey methodology was used for the survey applying measures of search, navigation, forms layout, contrast and scan ability, optimization (size & print), help, ...
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Purpose: The aim of this studies evaluating the usability of digital libraries in governmental universities at Tehran.Methodology: 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.
Gholamreza Fadae; Seyfollah Andayesh
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Purpose: This research aims to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management in the Faculty of Information Science and Knowledge Studies. Methodology: The research’s method was descriptive-correlational. Data collection tool was designing the research’s ...
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Purpose: This research aims to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management in the Faculty of Information Science and Knowledge Studies. Methodology: The research’s method was descriptive-correlational. Data collection tool was designing the research’s questionnaires based on the Denison Organizational Culture Model and Knowledge Management Assessment Tools. The research’s statistical population consisted of 100 persons of managers, staff, and students of the Faculty of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, who were selected via random sampling method, and 100 persons were selected as sample through simple random sampling method. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used. Conclusion: Results show that there is a positive and significant relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management. Also, the findings obtained from the research’s sub-hypothesis show that organizational mission, organizational adaptability, organizational compatibility, organizational participation have positive and significant relationship with knowledge management. Reviewing the status of organizational culture and knowledge management variables show that organizational culture possesses a satisfactory status in the studied organization, but knowledge management’s status was not very satisfying
