Knowledge Retrieval and Semantic Systems

The Impact of Librarians’ Information Literacy on the Organizational Growth of Public Libraries

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Mahmoud Moradi 1
Sara Bahrami Nia 2

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Science,, Razi University. Kermanshah. Iran

2 Ph.D Student in Information Science and Knowledge-Information Management. Payam-e- Noor, Mashhad. Iran

https://doi.org/10.22054/jks.2020.49603.1268
Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of librarian information literacy on organizational growth of Kermanshah public libraries. In this study, the information literacy level of public librarians in Kermanshah and also the impact of information literacy on organization growth were determined. Methodology: descriptive correlational study and survey was conducted. The populations of all public librarians in Kermanshah province with a total of 215 persons. The sample size was determined using Cochran sampling formula of 138 people. To collected data, a questionnaire measuring information literacy standards and organization growth in the five-item Likert scale is used. Findings: The finding showed that the information literacy and its components (the ability to locate information, the ability to evaluate information and the ability to make effective use of information) among public librarians in Kermanshah was proper. The highest frequency component related to the ability to locate information (60.3) and the lowest rate, the ability to make effective use of information (30.3), respectively.conclusion: information literacy is a basic need for everyone and because the skills of individuals in the development of society, so the results of the evaluation of information literacy librarian and relationship skill development and organizational effectiveness as well as the efforts and planning for improvement level, in order to achieve these goals will help. Because the ability to use that information literacy is one of the main factors for librarians as providers of information dissemination is inevitable and necessary.

Keywords

Informtion Literacy
Kermanshah
Organizational Development
Public Libraries
Public Librarians  
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Knowledge Retrieval and Semantic Systems
Volume 7, Issue 23
Summer 2020
Pages 63-90

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