LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Year:2006 | Volume:8 | Issue:4 (32)|Papers Count:9

Resources sharing and library cooperation is one of the essential Ways of overcoming the limitations of libraries in meeting their users’ needs. Librans can cooperate and share their resources in the form of different programs and actions as well as based on different orientations. But they need to make sure that such programs are successful and as they need to get informed about factors affecting the success of these programs. This paper presented the success factors of resource sharing and library cooperation which have been referred to in the literature. Then, for better explanation and clarification, these factors were classified and analyzed with a systemic and strategic approach.

The main aim of this research was to study the general status of books translated into persian during the years 1991-2000. Variables were: subject, country of origin and of publication, publishers, author, language, reprinting, gender and translator(s). The subject areas under' study were Science, Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine. This survey employed the bibliometncs method to study all translated books (6677 titles) published in the above mentioned areas during 1991-2000and listed in the last edition of the Iranian National Bibliography on CD. Finding indicated that among 6677 translated books, 2484 titles (37.2%) were in Science 2206 titles (33.1%) in Medicine, 1568 titles (23.5%) in Engineering, 419 titles (6.2%) in Agriculture. The active publishers for translated books are 1505. Tehran had 1184 publishers (78.7%) and other cities had 321 Publishers. From the total 6677 translated books, only 1671 titles (25.02%) were reprinted. 4921 titles(73.7%)were translated by individual (single) translators and 1756 titles (26.3%)were translated jointly.6719 translators were male (79.68%), 1601 translators (18.97%) were female and 113 (1.35%)were organizations. Among the 8433 translators, 15female translators and 78male translators were the most active translators by translating more than one book. Translated books in 1370shad a climbing curve but we observed a decline in 1992and 1995. About (91%) of books were translated from English, French, German and Russian Languages, but English is a dominat language by 79/91 percent. There is a meaningful relationship (P =0/000) and (99%) between the language, subject and the country of the origin of publication.

In the era of information explosion, access to relevant resources on the Internet, is one of the serious concerns of users. Thus, it is necessary to be familiar with types of search tools. One of the search tools that were designed to solve this problem is metasearch engines (MSEs). How far this search tool, can solve users' problem in accessing relevant resources on the Internet which is the main concern of this study. In other words, this research aims to examine MSEs in terms of their search capabilities, recall ratio and ranking difference in comparison to the common underlying search engines (SEs). Findings indicate that MSEs have suitable search capabilities and users can rely on them in searching and retrieving relevant and pertinent documents.Furthermore, the results reveal that there is significant difference between ranking of retrievals in SEs and ranking of MSEs. Finally, those MSEs which have better recall ratio and more search capabilities have been introduced. Some suggestions for using MSEs and for further research have been recommended.

There are two main differences between Humanities and Social Sciences with empirical sciences. The researcher, in many areas of social and humanities like a political party, a sport team etc., has a favouriticism toward a special result which affects the research operations. In addition, many persons have a feeling that they know the results in advance in such research.The necessary actions for prevention of favouriticism problem are one of the main issues in the methodology of Humanities and Social Sciences. In this article we discuss about this problem and the actions needed to prevent or decrease it. These actions will be explained in five main different steps of a research i.e. selecting of colleagues, correcting and making clear the subject of result, selecting methodologies of different parts of research, selecting the resources of research and finally analyzing and totalizing the research.

This research aims at examining the attitudes of male and female highs cool students (those in the third year and in the fourth year at high school) towards school library. All the male students in 72 educational centers and the female students in 78 in high schools in Shiraz, constituted the sample of the study. The student's attitudes towards library were classified m some categories and scales. In addition to the evaluation the views of students on each category, the researchers examined the effects of two variables, namely sex and grade on their views.

The article emphasizes on the impact of social, cultural and technological development on library and information science centers. While reviewing what authorities forecast for future of library and information science, two categories of discussions are followed. Research informational and educational functions of future libraries. Better ad deeper services to be presented. Finally, frameworks and influential factors in planning the library and information centers of the future are discussed.

The online public access catalog is an information retrieval system characterized by short bibliographic record, mainly books, journals and audio-visual materials available in a particular library. This paper discussed about some challenges in OPAC such as catalog maintenance and catalog governance, subject searching as raises new issues of the catalog.

The Online Public Catalog (OPAC) is an information retrieval system characterized by short bibliographic records, mainly of books, journals, and audiovisual materials available in a particular library. This is coupled with Boolean search interface and heterogeneous user problems for subject searching by end users. To perform effective subject searching in the OPAC system requires a wide range of knowledge and skills. Various approaches to improving the OPAC design for subject searching have been proposed and are reviewed in this article. The trend toward Web-based OPAC interfaces and the developments in internet and digital library technologies present fresh opportunities for enhancing the effectiveness of the OPAC system for the subject searching.

This document outlines important characteristics and features (referred to as facets of quality) for building a digital reference services for all audience, including the K-12 educational community. The facets are intended as a set of standards for organizations to achieve in creating and maintaining digital reference services participating in the Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) Network [ a collaborative Internet based question and answered service 'providing support to digital reference (or AskA ) services by accepting out-of-scope and overflow questions], but can be applied to all digital references and consortia.