JOURNAL OF EPISTEMOLOGY (LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)
Year:2013 | Volume:6 | Issue:22|Papers Count:9

Objective: The Present Study has been Performed with the Purpose of Comparative Study Qom’s Participative libraries and Libraries related to Foundation of Public libraries Concerning the Application Level 4p Marketing Mix Style.Methodology: The methodology of this study is “Survey” descriptive and inferential statistics (T test) has been used for description and analysis data. the Population of the study were included 55 public libraries of qom province, among wich 22 libraries are run as an foundational and 33 libraries to work participative with public libraries foundation. Information has been collected through the check list and visiting, check lists returned by four libraries and Population under study were reduced to 21 participative library and 30 foundational libraries. To evaluate the validity of the check list has been utilized by teachers feedback and libraries administrators. Cronbachs alpha has been used to measure reliability that check list had acceptable reliability (0.90).Findings: Results of the study indicated that the product, price, place and promotion of foundational libraries respectively with averages (0.82), (0.72), (1.2), (1.07) than the product, price, place and promotion of participative libraries with averages (0.50), (0.46), (0.77), (0.74) are better.Conclusion: Hypothesis test results indicated that significant different exists between averages of the three elements product, price and place of foundational and participative libraries but, there is not significant different between averages promotion. Furthermore, significant different exists between application level 4p marketing mix style in participative and foundational libraries and foundational libraries status concerning the application level 4p marketing mix style with average (53.90) desirable than participative libraries(35.67). The results of this study can provide information that might underlie future planning.

Objective: The aim of the present research is a citation analysis of scientific productions published by Islamic Azad University in Web of Science from 2000 to 2009 and drawing historiography map of the institute for scientific production through the HistCite.Methodology: This study is descriptive and scientometric method is applied to analyze the data. The Web of Science database was used for data collection.Findings: The findings of research are indicative of 6425 registered documents in Web of Science during the studied years. The growth rate for scientific production of Islamic Azad University has been %49.88.One Sixty-countries have cooperated with Islamic Azad University in writing the above numbered documents. These documents are recorded with the cooperation of 10130 authors; and 106518 sources have been cited. In historiography map of Islamic Azad University, 4 clusters have been formed based on Internal Citation Index (TLCS) and 5 other clusters based on Global Citation Index (TGCS).Conclusion: The results indicate that growth trend in scientific production of Islamic Azad University has had an upward movement within the 10 year period; chemistry has been the most influential one among the disciplines in the institute.

Objective: This research aimed to determine the research methods life process of Library and Information Science dissertations and thesis in the Governmental Universities of Iran submitted during 2005- 2009.Methodology: Content analysis method has been used this research. Statistical population contains the 292 dissertations in the10 Governmental Universities of Iran. Data were collected by checklists and analyzed by Excel and SPSS software’s.Findings: Findings showed that 42.81 percent of dissertations, used survey research methods, 13.01 percent content analysis, 11.30 percent citation analysis, 8.22 percent descriptive survey, 6.51 percent library research, 4.45 percent comparative survey, 4.11 percent analytic survey, 3.77 percent evaluative survey, 2.40 percent descriptive, 2.05 percent analytic descriptive, 0.68 percent system design, and remaining 0.68 percent of dissertations used of the experimental research methods.Conclusion: The results show that prevailing research method in the Library and Information Science thesis is related to survey research methods, and weakest trend are related to system design and experimental research methods.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the rate of knowledge, attitude and practice of faculty members in the use of digital resources and databases of the National Library of Medicine Iranian intelligence.Methodology: A descriptive study in a periodical time was conducted in 2011. The study population included all the faculty members of Iran University of Medical Sciences (n=700) and a sample of 152 randomly selected using Morgan Table. Data gathering tool was a questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS17 software.Findings: The results showed faculty members used resources 42.8% percent of Iran's National Digital Library of Medicine. Faculty members 'attitudes in the use of digital library resources in enhancing national university was positive. National Digital Library of Medicine faculty members in the use of resources in the cases of target, motivation, and academic publications, the use of Database and Science Direct database were more than others.Conclusion: Considering the positive attitude of faculty members toward the use of digital library resources of the National Iranian, it is suggested the knowledge and optimum use of resources to be improved in terms of getting rid of the existence barriers.

Objective: Due to the different functionalities of web 2.0 in the information age, offering integrated services and offering library and information services for meeting society information needs, necessitates knowledge and use of practical facilities of web 2.0. This study aimed to assess understanding and using Web 2.0 functionality of Iranian public librarians in the workplace.Methodology: This is a survey-descriptive study; Population includes public librarians (32 provinces of Iran. According to a report by the Department of Human Resources of Iran Public Libraries Foundation, the numbers of librarians in public libraries by the end of 2011 were (4921). 357 librarians were selected by cluster sampling method. For data collection in this study, the researcher made questionnaire was used based on a review of the related literature and other researchers’ Web 2.0 tools. For answering the research questions and hypotheses of descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) and inferential tests (one-group t test, ANOVA and Duncan's post hoc test) was used.Findings: The results showed that Iranian public librarians Understanding and using Web 2.0 functionality was at low (44 percent) and as well as the use of library facilities and functionalities of Web 2.0 for getting service to library users were at low (48 percent). The most capabilities of Iranian public libraries were in using E-mail and blog and the least capabilities were in using of flicker and Wiki.Conclusion: The rate of use of Web 2.0 of public librarians in the work was low. Retraining courses, in-service training while serving with the web, encouraging librarians to understand the web and its application in library services are required to be studied. This study can be considered as a new research aspect, specifically has considered Understanding and using Web 2.0 functionality of Iranian public librarians in the workplace. The results of the survey can help managers and librarians for efficient use of these facilities in the workplace.

Objective: the present paper aims at exploring the diagnosis of papers review process and also presenting a common framework.Methodology: To conduct the study, qualitative approaches and content analysis were taken. The research population is composed of all faculty members of faculties of psychology and education in the Tehran’s universities. A sample of 15 professors from Kharazmi and Shahid Beheshti universities were selected as researcher informers using purposive sampling. To collect data, semi structured interview was applied and open coding as well as selective coding were used for analysis.Findings: The findings indicate that scientific papers review should be made on the basis of 5 criteria: scientific, academic moral, article content consistency, writing techniques, and journal-article match. The results also show that there are some problems in reviewing papers such as non professional journals, lack of match between reviewers-articles, information and software weaknesses, reviews prolong, bias and neglect of quality, lack of acceptable criteria for review, and moral slide of reviewers.Conclusion: research in the various aspects impacts on the scientific community and used for academic promotion, admit to higher levels and to obtain better employment condition. So identification of damage and develop acceptable formwork, can have significant impact in this area and could be used to reduce the bias of review domain and provide a common framework for papers review.

Objective: The purpose of this research is the study of organizational culture of libraries of Universities of Tabriz City based on Quinn and Cameron’s Model.Methodology: This study is a descriptive survey and applied research. The statistical population is 92 librarians of the Universities of Tabriz city. The sample determined 72 librarians according to the Cochran formula. Data collected by using a standard questionnaire of Cameron and Quinn. Descriptive and analytical statistic and SPSS software were used in data analysis.Findings: The results show dominant type of organizational culture in libraries of universities of Tabriz city is tribal culture (m=9.03). Afterward there are the market culture (m=8.31), and hierarchical culture (m=7.32) and at the last rank democracy culture (m=6.56). As well as results show that the organizational culture of Tabriz University Librarians, there are no significant difference based on gender, type of employment, education and work experience.Conclusion: The results show that the dominant organizational culture among libraries of universities in Tabriz city is a tribal culture. This means that from seven libraries of universities in the Tabriz city, six of them have tribal culture, only in Library of Sahand University there is market culture. In the tribal culture flexibility, collaboration, cooperation, integrity, personal satisfaction and a friendly environment are worthwhile, and organization is regarded as a family.

Objective: Presence of scientific sources in web can be used in scientific assessment. The main aim of the paper is to investigate the presence of Middle East countries in terms of the Rich files in web and examine correlation with the number of document of these countries in Scopus.Methodology: Since the mid-1990s, a new research area called webometrics based on bibliometric and informetrics methods has been created. Webometrics is the quantitative analysis of the web phenomenon employing methods of informetrics. This paper is in the field of Webometrics and has done with adaptive comparison method, in addition correlation test has done by SPSS19 on Middle east countries.Findings: The results of this article illustrate that Turkey has the highest number of Rich Files in CEE Countries followed by Israel and Iran. These countries appear in order, Israel, turkey, Iran in ranking based on the number of documents in Scopus. Finally, it was concluded that the correlation between ranking of Middle East countries based on Rich Files and ranking of Middle East countries based on scientific documents in Scopus is significant at the 0.01 level and the correlation coefficient is. 921.Conclusion: It signifies that ranking based on Rich files for Middle East countries is valid.