LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Year:2008 | Volume:10 | Issue:4 (40)|Papers Count:13

Information organization has always been of concern to the library and information science profession. It also has a fundamental role in the process of information management (i.e., infonnation production, distribution and dissemination). Parallel to the growing importance of infonnation organization, the related principles and rules have developed in order to provide a perfect framework for the organization of knowledge. Despite this important role, infonnation organization in the electronic networked envirotnnent has faced many challenges and shortcomings. This paper attempts to identify and explore such challenges. It also aims to highlight some critical questions arisen in the new environment. Some of the challenges discussed are: infonnation overload in different formats, deciding about the basis fot bibliographic description, limitation of cataloging/organizing resource, shortcoming of name and subject of authorities at the national and international levels, contradiction between pre-coordinate and post-coordinate indexing, limitations of OPACs in search and retrieval, and indexing by Internet search engines. Provides some suggestions to overcome the present challenges.

By the time the idea of developinga national MARC format for Iran was thought, up to the present time that IRANMARC is seen as part of the "Integrated system of the National Library (Rasa)", there have been three processes: IRANMARC as a doctoral dissertation, IRANMARC as a manual, and the operational phase of IRANMARC as part of the "Integrated system of the National Library (Rasa)". Part of the modifications in the format through these processes, constitutes the content of this paper. The depengence rate of each process to the modifications and suggestions presented in the previous process is presented in the paper. A question is also answered: Is IRANMARC going forward or backward?

This Paper studies the missing of resources in libraries with emphasis on Astan Quds Razavi. It reviews the current methods and approaches to maintaining and preserving of resources. The consequences of this loss and the concerns by library administrators and inventory holders are discussed. Presents some solution for diminishing such concerns including re-defining the rate of missing, date due for returning of borrowed resources, regular and accurate shelf reading, and flexible rules for the missing',rate for special books in different type of libraries.

It's been a long time since subject labels are being used for representing documents' content, creating a base for user and system communication. Focusing on mere storage and retrieval has lead most of the information scientists not -consideringthe essence of theories such as persuasion or labeling in social sciences in general and social psychology in particular. Their paradigms have contributed a lot to our subject organization implicitly. This article aims to make these theoretical relationships clearer through a comparative and adaptive VIew.

The present research paper, which is an applied study survey method, focuses on the subjects' attitude towards reading and its relationship with Maslow's hierarchy' of needs. A sample of 1535 subjects, between age ranges of 12-60 from four cities in Khorasan Razavi province, was asked to fill out a questionnaire. The results showed that the studied population have positive attitude towards reading and esteem needs are at the high level among them. Correlation coefficient test showed a significant correlation between Maslow's hierarchy of needs and reading attitudes of the subjects. F tests showed meaningful differences among the subjects attitude relating to their age, academic degree and job categories. Also, t test indicated a significant difference between the male and female attitudes towards reading.

Internal evaluation or self-evaluation which, is held by professionals as one of the evaluation methods, is used in education and research centers. The aim of this kind of evaluation is to see the depth of a system's condition and attempt to improve the education and research units, internally. This paper, while presenting a short review of internal evaluation and external evaluation, presents research questions and analyses the output of research. The paper intends to present a method to help the planners and management of such centers to understand and improve the condition of university libraries and information centers.

The present article, which is based on author's viewpoint, deals with some dimensions of digital divide relating to libraries and librarians' services as well as responsibility. Also, it emphasizes that information sector in which librarians and information professionals play considerable roles to achieve democratic and dynamic society can fill or at least, can diminish digital divide and information divide. That is why, in order to support the main idea of this article, relevant existing literature has been reviewed and finally, skills needed by librarians and also, two-folded recommendations for information sector professionals as well as policy-makers have been addressed.

Awareness about the factors influencing a manager and his/ her Organization helps the developmentof the organization. In this research, the effect of "management stability", "distance from authorities" "independency", "the manager's specialty", and "Information Technology" have been studied through library and survey methods, using the results of the related research and doing quantitative studies on 3 national scientific information centers in Iran. ANOVA, Scheffe and Pearson's correlation tests were to analyse the quantitative findings of the research. Results show that all of 5 factors have independent and cumulative effect on manager's success and there is correlation$among these factors.

In the age of knowledge economy, knowledge is a critical resource for competitive advantage of organizations. It is, therefore, crucial for organization for manage this knowledge. However, if this knowledge can be shared, it can result in competitive advantage of an organization (i.e., its development). Therefore, knowledge sharing is a key factor in the process of knowledge management. This research investigates the extent to which knowledge sharing repositories in Astan Quds Library Organizationis compatible with the requirements of Nonaka & Takeuchi knowledge Conversion Model. The methodology of this case study is based on survey research. Questionnaire and checklist were used for gathering data. The result reveals that different tools and platforms have been established for knowledge sharing. They are compatible with different modes of Nonaka & Takeuchi conversion model. Knowledge sharing repositories in Socialization & Combination mode have been used more than externalization mode.

In recent decades the usage of bibliometrics and scientometrics' indicators in assessing the scientific efficiency of scholars has become more common than before. The most important indicator that has provided a useful tool for comprehensive citatiQn studies is the citation indicator. Since this indicator is .very essential in qualitative assessment, it has been used in studying Iranian scientific productions in ISI databases and has also specified the na,tionalityof authors who have cited from Iranian scientific productions (self-citations, native citations, and international citations, separately and according to country and continent). The rate of correlation between the nationality of authors who have cited Iranian scientific productions and the nationality of the international colleaguesof Iranian scholars was also measured. Findings show that from the total citations to Iranian scientific productions 49.2 percent was allocated to citations used by other nationalities and 50.8 percent to citations by Iranian authors. Citations used by Iranian are also divided into: 30.73 percent, selfcitation and 20.02 percent, citations used by other Iranian scholars. Even though the normal curve of frequency of other nationalities that have cited Iranian Prod!lctions, indicate that the amount of citation to Iranian productions is undesirable, among countries that have cited to Iranians, USA, China and India, and among continents, Europe and Asia, are respectively, the regions that have cited Iranian scholars from 63 countries, and the rate of cooperations between scholars from those countries with Iranians scholars, verify the correlation between the two variables.

We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide date on: (i) sessions-changes in queries during a session, number of pages viewed, and use of relevance feedback; (ii) queries-the number of search terms, and the use of logic and modifiers; and (iii) termstheir rank/frequency distribution and the most highly used search terms. We then shift the focus of analysis from the query to the user to gain insight to the characteristics of the web user. With these characteristics as a basis, we then conducted a failure analysis, identifying trends among user mistakes. We conclude with a summary of findings and a discussion of the implication of these findings.

Technology is more economical than the older and customary methods. Information technology's impacts are the primary factors for success of organizations.This research investigates the impact of the use of information technology system on the organizational effectiveness from the view point of users. From the different dimensions of information technology, improvement of the work speed, improvement of the work precision, on time of information retrieval, improvement of the information storage and improvement of the speed to information access. Are selected for study The hypothesis of this research investigates the impact of these dimensions on the organizational effectiveness.