LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Year:2006 | Volume:9 | Issue:1 (33)|Papers Count:10

The quantity of books, journals and electronic resources produced, bought or those that are available in university libraries affiliated to the Ministry of Science, research and Technology during the year 1381 have been investigated. The results indicated that the presented conditions as reported are not desirable in regards to minimum standards of collections in university libraries. In most of the cases, the statistics presented do not seems to be realistic. This is true specially for current and back issues of Farsi and English journals. It has been emphasized that the task of compilation of this kinds of statistics needs to be based on previously completed electronic data bases supported by resources through supplying research budget.The definitions of units of counting, specially for electronic resources is another poit to be considered by authorities in national information centers and associations.

The research aims to identify factors and conditions affecting development of book publishing rate in Iran during the khatami government (years 1376-1383). Publishers' point of view on social factors (political and economic consistency) which makes planning and plan implementation possible have been considered.4 hypothesis concerning internal organization factors were confirmed. 6 hypothesis concerning external organization factors which had the most relationship with economic, social and political consistency of publication, were not confirmed. In general publishers view the governmental policies positive and promotive.increasing oil cost and government income, government subsidizations and buying bookd from publishers for public libraries, increasing government investment in education, development of nongovernment educational institutions, increasing book readers and... are considered positive and promotive actions which made it possible to increase the number of titles being published year after year.

Nowadays information is regarded as a powerful tool for the stabilization of each individual or nation's status in the world. Thus it must be accessible to the public and this is while advancement in information technology has changed the direction of information dissemination. Following this technology, the present study seeks to investigate the application of necessary tools for the development of IT in deprived rural areas as a social class. The establishment of Rural IT Centers, systematizing them through the establishment of service centers for Rural IT Centers is some of the most important measures that could be taken in this area.

Development is a subject with special complexities in practice and theory. Development IS an extensive process that covers all aspects of social life. Since change is regarded as the essential part of development and it is not possible without the existence of sufficient information, "Information for development" must be at the center of development process. The present article aims at investigating the theoretical concepts of development through reviewing the viewpoints of five authors in information and development areas. Furthermore it describes the role of information and development areas, information centers and information management in enhancing the development process. Texts present on development and related matters have also been used.

While reviewing different sources, the present study deals with responsibilities, functions and skills needed by librarians with the objective of inserting modem technologies in library administration. Furthermore it explains formal and special educational courses of system librarians in performing their given tasks. Afterwards it discusses system job and finally introduces people who have the considered features for accepting this job.

The world of information retrieval over the recent years has been considerably changed by extensive growth of access to searchable full text and the increasing availability of powerful engines for searching the text. It is reasonable to ask whether there is any place left for thesauri in this new information retrieval environment. Some theorists believe there is a place for thesauri or something like them but they must change in order to continue to be of valuable, and it is hard to predict just what the changes will be.

Emergence of electronic resources on the web has caused some problems for librarians and information specialists. The problems are how to describe these resources and how to provide subject access for facilitating their discovery and retrieval. Passage of time has revealed that the use made of LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) in the electronic environment is limited and to some extent impossible. So it may be useful to design a rich, simple and understandable subject heading scheme which is compatible with the electronic environment while introducing FAST subject headings, this article examines its compatibility with widespread metadata schemes, such as Dublin Core and MARC 21. FAST is developed for information organization, discovery and retrieval in the 21st century. The scheme is based on LCSH's controlled vocabulary but it is more faceted and post-coordinated than it.

Different groups of researchers are affected by various factors and environments. Therefore they represent different information seeking behaviors. Among the most important factors examined in the present study, personal, cognitive and environmental ones as well as system facilities can be mentioned. Due to the high importance of each of these factors in shaping the behavior of information seekers, it is necessary to examine and review these factors properly to provide guidelines for information science scholars and support information seekers. Also it is necessary to give more insight and knowledge to system designers about designing user-oriented systems.

By making improvements in static Web pages, Cal Poly Library has designed new interactive services based on Web for students and faculty members by the use of JAVA and the capabilities of Oracle databases. As a result, this library has been able to grasp the leadership in digital educational environment at the university.