LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Year:2009 | Volume:12 | Issue:2 (46)|Papers Count:12

This paper analyzes the spatial pattern of public libraries in the Mashhad city. We used the spatial autocorrelation (SA) model and another technique of SA analysis with GIS and GEO DA software’s. Data about thirty five public libraries were gathered. Results of the analysis of distribution of libraries by Gary Ratio C, Moran's I in GIS software show that., per Capitation libraries in Mashhad city is lower than that of the country (Iran) but equal to the average of Khorasan Razavi province. Astan-e-qods Razavi public libraries have better indicators regarding the factors.Finally, this model shows dispersed pattern of libraries and their Injustice distribution in the Mashhad city. Also The Moran's I analyzed Bivariate shows that the negative co-relation between density of population and distribution pattern libraries in Mashhad.

The location and distribution of public libraries across cities are among one of the main factors effecting people's use and willingness distribution of public libraries across toward these libraries. This research focuses on the present location of public libraries in Ahwaz city, taking into account their "centrality" and "consistency", uses the Geographical Information System (GIS) for the analysis of data. Moreover, in order to build new public libraries in the region, some suggestions regarding the better location of such libraries are recommended.

The integrated library system of the National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Rasa) is the system employed since September 2006. This paper examines the user interface of this software. The purpose of the survey is to clarify whether the system has benefited from the capabilities of both IRANMARC and UNIMARC. The study made it clear that, in spite of the designers claim as to base the software on IRANMARC, the software has not benefited from the capabilities of both MARCs. The software can be much better than what it is now by making advantage of the capabilities of IRANMARC and UNIMARC, especially fields in blocks 6-- and 7--. The software needs redesigning based on all the abilities of IRANMARC and the UNIMARC updates.

Knowing about the effective and encouraging as well as preventive factors regarding librarians' scholarly publishing can be useful in the people's understanding of librarianship. Scholarly productivity will eventually lead to sustainable development for countries. The aim of this paper is to identify the motivation factors for publishing, translating and in general scientific and scholarly productivity of Iranian librarians. These factors were identified through questionnaires sent to authors in the field of library and information science. The results of this survey show that immaterial factors have the most effect and can be considered as important motivations for publishing.

Each library software consists of several sections each of which proportionate to its specific tasks. But, to what extent the available facilities in library software's conform to the needs of the users, is the focal point of this paper and its main concentration is on Pars Azarakhsh library software. The objective is to identify the available facilities in the circulation module of this software and to suggest the capabilities for it. In this paper, the criteria for the applicability and strength of the Pars Azarakhsh library software are considered and observed in 5 parts such as overdue notice, change in the borrowing time, reserving the resources, overdue fine as well as settlement and proposals for improving the software to be suitable and proportionate to the needs of librarians have been, presented.

The purpose of this survey is to evaluate the user satisfaction of services at the information center of Ferdowsi University Central Library. To gather the data a questionnaire was used. The population of this research consists of the users who come to the information center to search and retrieve information. The sample population is 70 according to Morgan table. The variables of this research are users' subject fields, degree, job or study place, accessibility to electronic resources, equipments of the information center and the role of librarians in searching, retrieving and users training. Results show the users are satisfied with language, publication date and relevance of retrieved resources, accessibility to electronic resources, and communicating and information seeking skills of librarians. However, users are not satisfied with equipments and the working hours of the information center.

The purpose of this article was to study scientific productivity of academic members of the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI), during 1989-2003, using scientometric indicators. For this study data gathering was based on a questionnaire and data analysis was performed by descriptive and inferential statistics methods using SPSS.Results showed that the academic members of the Exploration and Production Department (RIPI), were the most populated during the studied period. The total numbers of scientific publications were 3192, which can be classified as 1665 (52.2%) articles, 1412 (44.2%) research projects, 103 (3.2%) theses, and 12 books. The quantity of scientific productivity was increased during years 1989 to 1998 and after this period it showed a constant trend, which was lower than the year 1998. Most of subject matter tendencies of scientific productivity were towards petrochemical, chemical, and reservoir engineering. Departments of Exploration and Production, Petrochemical and Chemical Engineering and Oil Refinery had the highest contribution in scientific productivity in this study.

Structuring search results in information retrieval, especially when we have bulky results, helps IR users find relevant results. Grouping results has to be done according to their attributes. These attributes (both primary and secondary) are discussed in this paper. Due to the fact that Clustering is a well known way of organizing search results this paper aims at mapping different clustering methods on different types of attributes. The paper also deals with current situation of search technologies on the web, testing if they have the potential of organizing the results according to previously defined attributes. The results of this study shows that although clustering search results is not something new on the web and although most of the attributes are being indexed currently, search engines do not take the whole advantage of this approach.

The efficacy of periodical holdings of a library is highly dependent on important factors affecting their use. Accessibility is one of these factors. This study aims at determining the use rate of nonpersian periodicals in Medical Science University of Kerman while determining to what extent it is influenced by accessibility Factor.This research used the experimental and survey method. Research population was consisted of 399 titles and 3871 issues of non-Persian periodicals out of which 15.1% titles and 11.1% issues belong to the dental school as available journals. Research data were gathered and analysed through two known statistical software’s known as "Spss" and "Epi2" as well as applying Z test (a=0.05%, Z=1.95) to test the research hypothesis.Findings show that 31.5% titles and 36.3% issues were used during the course of study. The highest percent of each title use (33.4%) belonged to the medicine and the lowest (23.5%) belonged to the gynecology and the midwifery course. On the whole, 126 titles were used from which 19 titles were belonged to the available journals.The results of the non-available journals indicated the importance of accessibility factor, while the results concerning the lack of use of some available journals, implied the importance of those journals from the view point of the users. Accordingly, the need for a continuous evaluation of provision policies and methods to make best use of limited funding is perceptible.

University libraries are the main source for information access; They must be updated and responsive to the increasing users needs and requirements. Therefore determining service quality strengths and weaknesses can help library managements to improve customer satisfaction continuously. This paper presents a fuzzy map for quality elements at first step. Using this map, strengths and weaknesses in quality are determined and then the most effective alternatives for quality improvement are defined. Results in Yazd University show that the most important success factor is the employee readiness for responding user’s questions and the most important failure factor is unsuitable working hours in library.

Information behavior is one of the most important research areas in Information Science and can play an influential role in the design, development and evaluation of information retrieval systems. Although there seems a gap between these two areas of research in the classical literature of Information Science, a close relationship is found as a consequence of recent interactions among Information Science and related fields. This paper describes "human information behavior" and sets out to review the existing literature to find out whether or not there is a kind of relationship among research findings of information behavior and the main approaches in the design, development and evaluation of information retrieval systems. Some new methods in which such a relationship is taken considerably into account and implications of human-centered approach in evaluation of information retrieval systems are also explored.

In this paper, the process of ontology engineering is discussed. Focus is on the relation extraction through pattern-based models. Some articles on Relevance are selected as sample texts to show how visible semantic relations are. This paper shows the possibility of relation extraction in this analyzed sample. It also shows that the visibility of semantic relation is low.