JOURNAL OF EPISTEMOLOGY (LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)
Year:2012 | Volume:4 | Issue:15|Papers Count:9

Purpose: This research aims at investigating the conditions of manuscript and lithography collections in cultural centers affiliated to public libraries foundation and providing optimal solutions for the existing conditions. Methodology: The research is descriptive-survey study and to collect data questionnaire was used. To determine the validity of the questionnaire the content validity and the reliability was estimated using retest. To analyze the data Excel software was used. The population consists of 27 public libraries which have manuscripts and 25 public libraries which have lithography collections.Findings: There are 5883 volumes of manuscripts and 17029 volumes of lithography in these libraries. There are 51 employees (Associate, BA and Master degree) who work in manuscripts and lithography sections of these libraries along with other duties in various sections. Only 7 percent of the libraries have had In-service courses. Concerning the conservation, heat and light were controlled in 19 percent of libraries and in 11 percent of them humidity has been controlled, and in 11 percent of libraries temperature and humidity control systems were investigated. About 68.74 percent of manuscripts and 52.31 percent of lithography has been cataloged. Only 7 percent of libraries are digitalizing their resources. Considering dissemination, about 80 percent of libraries distribute their manuscripts and lithography manually and they are available only in the libraries. In 88 percent of libraries, For certain individual under special conditions there is availability to access manuscripts and lithography. Considering retrieval, manual cataloging has been used in 76 percent of libraries.Conclusions: Based on the results of this study, the conservation status, management, and dissemination of manuscripts and lithography in public libraries in the country were not in suitable conditions and require authorities’ more effort.Restoration, digitalizing the content, cataloging and preparation of databases, providing In-service courses, and use of specialists were the most important guidelines.

Purpose: the present study has been performed white the purpose of considering cooperative organizing of library agricultural data of educational centers affiliated to agricultural promotion, education and research organization in internet milieu.Methodology: The methodology of the Study performance method is descriptive method. Data are collected through questionnaire to consider data organizing, personel, software and hardware issues for data collection, to consider of data organizing, man power, software hardware situations, questionnaire has been used.Data, after collection were analyzed. And its result, by use of descriptive statistical methods (abundance, percentage), were presented in from of table and diagram. Statistical society are combined 55 libraries of research institutions and centers dependent on agricultural promotion education organization, that they use software under Simorgh web for average 4 years.Findings: Findings show that cooperative organizing of agricultural data, during the two stages of cataloging and classification%100 is performed; and in indexing stage %21.6 is done.Conclusion: Obtained results showed that the studied libraries, in performance of mentioned project, were faced with problems such as personnel (with 4.26 degree), financial property (with 4.54 degree), technical property (with 45.50 degree) data cooperative organizing has led to time economy (%43.2), cost similar to speed economy (%54.1) and also integration in use of studied library software (%100).

Purpose: in addition to the important issues like policymaking and implementation process of Popularization of Science in the National mechanism in Iran, several factors should be considered because they have a major role in success or failure of mechanism. So, Identifying barriers and problem solving strategies are important.Methodology: A national survey involving 60 experts who were working on popularization of science by individual interest or as job task. Data were collected and analyzed by using mixed of methods (Document study, Survey and interviews). Participants were identified through targeted sampling and snowball identification technique.Findings: The descriptive results of research revealed that “Reforming the Educational systems (Schools and Universities) in Iran, with considering Popularization of Science, as one of the most important activities” was identified as the first important factors (the first in ranking), according to 60 participants answers, and also “improving the awareness of Government officials and private organizations about importance of Popularization of Science” and “Paying attention about Popularization of Science from an early ages” were two other important factors in experts points of view (the second and third in ranking).Conclusion: “Governmental Financial support from the newly established centers, private centers, entrepreneurships and etc.”, “Paying the grants to active organizations and designing encouraging programs”, and “identifying the especial policy for funding, loans, and etc. for Governmental and private centers by Government” were three important approaches in order to overcome financial problems.

Objective: This study aims to investigate the library anxiety of students, and the effect of library skills instruction and library tours on decreasing their library anxiety.Methodology: The population of study- which conducted using the “pretest-posttest” experimental method- was 75 first year students at the University of Malaya, a research-intensive university in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. First, the levels of students’ library anxiety were investigated using a revised version of the Bostick’s Library Anxiety Scale. Then, study participants were divided into three groups: first group participated in educational library skills instruction sessions; second group participated in library tours without attending in library skills instruction sessions; and students in the third group neither participated in library skills instruction sessions nor library tours.Findings: The levels of participant’s library anxiety were investigated using the same instrument after two weeks. Findings of the study revealed that although there were no statistically significant differences between pre-test of three groups, the levels of library anxiety among the students in the second group were statistically significantly decreased. On the other hand, students in the second group reported to have experienced lower levels of library anxiety after participation in library skills instruction sessions, but not at a statistically significant level.

Purpose: The present study was carried out to analyze the functional content of primary school mathematics textbooks for mentally retarded students.Methodology: After extracting the conceptual pattern and constructing the checklists based on the aforementioned pattern, in the first phase of the study, the functional content of the textbooks was investigated. The 9 components of the patterns are: mathematical vocabulary, numbers, counting, numerical operations, geometrical shapes, measurement, time, money and shopping, and mathematics-related instruments. The content analysis or in other words constructing the checklists was achieved by two assessors.Findings: The results of the analysis point out there was no difference between the opinions of the two assessors in four of the textbooks and for the remaining three textbooks, the difference was insignificant. Subcategories of functional mathematics which have been presented in none of the textbooks are as following: some mathematical concepts such as direction and distance, ordinal numbers, unit of temperature in the category of measurement, time of day, some common coins and bills, vending machine and ATM in the category of money and shopping, identifying geometrical shapes in objects and natural sceneries, and also related instruments such as digital watch, telephone, calculator, thermometer, and scale. Furthermore, many issues have been superficially dealt with.Conclusion: The obtained results imply that in developing the mathematics textbooks for this group of students, the appropriateness of the content to the readers’ needs (the functional aspect) was not fully taken into consideration and the existing content requires much alteration and a number of additional issues and concepts.

Purpose: The present research aimed to investigate the librarians’ role in information seeking behavior of students of Amirkabir University.Methodology: The methodology was descriptive survey using a questionnaire and the reliability of which was measured 0.89 based on Cronbach’s alpha. Questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS software (version 16). Descriptive statistics techniques were applied.Findings: The results revealed that students most important goal when searching for data was to find information for their projects and they used both official and non-official methods for searching information. The books and personal experiences were the most important official and non-official sources for getting information respectively. The Science Direct database ranked first (86.3%) as the most used electronic database by the students while ISI (web of knowledge), Springer, ProQuest and Scopus ranked 2nd to 5th respectively.Methods of students’ retrieval of information were consulting by friends and faculty members, making errors & using experience, training courses in libraries and finally seeking advice of librarians.Conclusion: The main obstacles of easy access to information were low speed of the networks and problems of connections, lack of enough English language knowledge, the interruption of universities subscription for electronic databases, lack of enough up to date sources in library and not using special resources by students.

Purpose: In recent years, researchers review and analyze information and scientific products have been concerned subject to international, national and The Institute's. Economics and commercial sciences, discussed the knowledge’s related to economics and business. The analysis of scientific production in economics and business are also important in promoting and developing country.Methodology: This study method is a quantitative and use assessment of science techniques. This research studied Iranian researcher’s scientific products in the period 1990 to 2010.Conclusion: The results show that the growth of Iranian scientific papers in the fields of “economics-Business” in the study period has an acceptable amount, and 76% of the Iranian scientific productions were written inside the organization. Also Iranian researchers published more than fifty percent of its scientific productions in these fields in the qualified and first ranking journals and a high percentage of articles, "Economics-Business" (93%) Iranian researchers as the main author. Compared with Iran’s scientific products with two rivals in the Middle East, Egypt and Turkey in the fields "economics-trade" The results showed that Iran has considerable growth, but Turkey from Iran in this field has outdistanced and Egypt is third.

Purpose: Having implemented of suggestion system in an organization that is a new managerial system can apply suggestions and opinions of the personnel which propounded as main capital of organization for development of performance in organization.The purpose of the present research is to survey the probability of the establishment of suggestion system in Islamic Azad University library of dis. 8.In order to survey the probability of the above system three leadership fundamental parameters for management, personnel preparedness and Org. (library) has been measured.Methodology: The research method is descriptive survey.The total population consists 117 of all the personnel of libraries of district 8 which are 149 people.The data collection tool is the gathered questionnaires based on the first necessary indexes for implementation of suggestion system.Findings: The findings show that the leadership condition in the studied libraries was below the average limit (supposed average), but the index related to personnel and organization preparedness was in average limit (supposed average).Conclusion: Regarding the investigation which has been made for three indexes for probability of establishment of suggestion system in the studied libraries that is related to leadership style, personnel and organization condition and the finding results, it could inferred that the implementation of suggestion system bring many challenges. But it is possible to take action to establish the suggestion system in the studies libraries but its establishment and institutionalization need more time and activity for development and promoting its culture.