LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Year:2010 | Volume:12 | Issue:4 (48)|Papers Count:15

The Aim of this study was to identify nonconceptual or stop words in Persian Language and to develop a list of these words for automatic indexing of Persian texts in the fields of Psychology, Educational Sciences and Library and Information Science. The research was done based on content analysis method. The research population consisted the articles in the latest issues of the scientific journals of psychology, Education and Library and Information Science published in 1385.Findings showed that: 1- Copula and auxiliary verbs, Adverbs, Pronouns, Characters (Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjection), Sounds, numbers and Punctuation marks are among non-conceptual or stop words in the Persian language. 2- Without including Punctuation marks, 39/96 percent of educational sciences, 38/57 percent of psychology and 38/12 percent of library and information science texts are constructed of non-conceptual words. 3- High frequency stop words in these fields are approximately the same. 4-38/94 percent of the text analyzed words are stop words. 5- Comparing Persian list with the stop word list of Fox in English language showed that there is 28/5% overlap between these two lists. The result of this survey showed that about 40% of the words in Persian language texts can be ignored in text analysis and automatic indexing.

Globalization and its influence on higher education system of Iran is the main focus of this study. The role of electronic facilities and worldwide networks on education is considered. Imbalance in opportunities, increasing demand for entrance to higher education and shortcomings of Iranian educational system for admission, insufficiency of educational facilities for teaching and learning at the national scale, disability of our current educational system in training citizens that can act effectively in a global society are discussed. The notions from the literature review as well the anaylsis of educators resposes to questionnaire in Payam Noor University indicated that modem educational systems like virtual university and open & distance educational systems ,if adequately used, can help solve current problems in higher education of Iran.

In our competitive society of today and in order to keep sustainable development through the information centers and companies' websites and more audience satisfaction as well, we have to assess the quality of the websites' information services from the perspective of the users.In order to understand users' expectations and perceptions about web sites' information quality services, one of the suitable methods is based on the users' feedbacks named WebQUAL. It is an instrument for assessing the quality of websites' information services from the users' point of view, include for dimensions-Usefulness, Ease of use, Entertainment, Complimentary Relationship- 12 constructions and 35 items in which every construct was evaluated at the 7 level score from strongly disagree to the strongly agree.A conceptual model for the improvement of the quality of information services in websites is developed.

This paper reports the results of survey conducted at Razi University faculty members on needs of information and seeking behavior. Findings show that most important aims of these members for information were for research activities. The population use both formal and informal channels for information retrieval. The most formal channels were books (95.1%), journals (84.7%) and most informal channels were personal practice and contribution meetings (69.6%). Results also show that among the most important non-printed sources used is the Internet (97.5%) and the most important problem in accessing to the Internet are low networks speed and Internet traffic. The Major obstacles in access to formation are: lack of necessary materials in the library recourses limited for supply information from foreign country, lack of real-time access to information.

The present study was conducted with the aim of understanding the online Information Seeking Process (ISP) among faculty members of Islamic Azad University Branch of Bardsir. 31 faculty members' demographic information, preliminary knowledge and field of interests in web searching were identified through a questionnaire. Based on the obtained results, 4 search scenarios in scientific, news and entertainment areas were designed and submitted to faculty members. At the end of their search process, the participants were interviewed and asked 4 questions (3 close-ended and one open-ended). Using Track4Win software package, all search actions of the participants were recorded in Microsoft Access database. Using a Log Analysis method, and adopting Marchionini's ISP model, it was revealed that the participants went through the following stages during their information seeking process: 35.1 percent examining the results, 29.9 percent formulating and executing queries, 15.7 percent selecting sources, 15.1 percent extracting information, 2.2 percent defining problem and 1.9 percent stopping/thinlcing. Additional results were obtained based on logs, including records, time, scenarios, retrieved documents, first visited websites, most frequently used websites, search strategies, errors and keywords.

The present study investigative the role of marketing in libraries and the importance and necessity of a cohesive marketing plan to reach predetermined goals and objectives. In this research, according to main structure of marketing plan for non-profit organizations, general framework is designed for libraries and information centers. Also, this study investigates marketing principles, tactics, and strategies. On the basis of these, the final marketing plan for libraries and information centers is designed in four steps.

The aim of this research was to examine the indexing quality and ranking of XML content objects containing MARC21 and Dublin Core metadata elements by major search engines, and comparing them together in an experimental study. 100 XML content objects in two groups were analyzed: those with MARCXML elements and those with DCXML ones published in two websites (www.dcmixml.islamicdoc.com & www.marcxml.islamicdoc.com). The websites introduced to the selected search engines, Google and Yahoo. The indexing quality of metadata records embedded in content objects using descriptive statistics, and the difference between indexing and ranking of them using nonparametric mann-whitney U test were examined. Findings show that the visibility of content objects was possible by all their metadata elements. There was no significant difference between the two groups' indexing quality but observed in case of ranking.

The aim of this study was a content analysis of information literacy standards applied in the Strategic National Educational Documentaton Plan for 1404 (education document section for science and technology cultural and artistic document). Target population was a Draft volume of the strategic National Educational Documention prospectus (1386 the end of January). The information collection instrument was a checklist. The results showed that the extent of Information literacy standards being applied in science and technology document is in large scale and in the cultural document is below the average. Other categories related to standards in the national document were below the average.

The purpose of this paper is to review Wilson's (1981) seminal article, "On user studies and information neds" by adapting a literature-based conceptual analysis, taking Wilson's paper as the starting point, and evaluating the significance of, and later developments in, the issues dealt with in that article.

The use of international standards is necessary to guarantee the quality of journals and to help them join the mainstream of knowledge. It is also essential to inform readers about the quality level achieved by the journals. Aiming to study how Iranian scholarly journals are represented on the Internet, the present communication evaluates 233 scholarly journals, accregited by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in terms of their presentation of 27 quality standards on their websites or at Magiran, a Web-based directory dedicated to Iranian journals. The findings reveal that the journals are appropriately represented in terms of the studied standards, so that a majority of them displays at least half of the standards. However, the findings show that they largely overtook certain criteria that may have a more effective role in ensuring readers about the validity of the journals.

Using content analysis method, this study aimed at determining whether or not consistency and lawfulness regarding the form, structure and concept in the Persian Subject Headings of NLAIR authorities dealing with concept from the Islamic point of view in general (otherwise than Islamic philosophy, Islamic legal theory and likewise). The above-mentioned subjects are compared with their equivalents in LCSH as viewed in the Library of Congress subject. Authority database. Some suggestions are made at the end of the essay for change and promotion in the Persian Subject Haedings.

More than 50 Milions of people in the world are mentally and physically handicapped. About 1577646 of these are Iranian. These problems beside some social and physical obstacles usually prevent them to go to public places such as libraries, while this group of people for their leisure time and to communicate with people need to have equal facility and standard library equipments. In This paper we analyse the problems and obstacles of the buildings and equipments of public and university libraries from the architecture and librarians points view.