INFORMATION SYSTEMS & SERVICES
Year:2016 | Volume:5 | Issue:1-2 (17-18) |Papers Count:8

Purpose: The research purpose is to investigate the effective role of family (different aspects) in teenagers’ reading of public libraries in Sanandaj.Methodology: This is a correlational survey. The population under study, are parents of active young members of public libraries in Sanandaj. These statistics is obtained from Saman library software reporting based on the age of 1500 members.Findings: The research findings showed that there is a significant relationship between the enjoyment, the position of library in the family, interactions between parents and children and positive attitude of parents about children reading. Namely by increasing these variables, the variable of reading rate is also relatively increases. On the other hand there is no significant relationship between education level of parents with teenager reading.Conclusions: The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the enjoyment, the position of library in the family, interactions between parents and children and positive attitude of parents about children reading, that is, by increasing these variables, the reading variable rate is also relatively increases. While there is no significant correlation between education level of parents with reading in young children. Therefore, the identification and study of effective factors in reading of young children can be used for better expert planning to advice to families in the public libraries.

Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to determine situation of libraries of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in west Azerbaijan and its compatibility with IFLA guideline.Methodology: Descriptive- survey method was used as a research method and all libraries of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in west Azerbaijan was studies as population of research. Research made questionnaire was used for gathering data.Finding: Finding shows the appropriate space, decoration and painting of libraries are tailored to the interests of children and young adults; and compatible with IFLA guideline. Librarians interest to learn new skills and improve their abilities in computer fields that this is compatible with IFLA guideline. Librarians of 22 libraries are familiar with children literature and providing services to the children with 7-11 and 12-17 years old. All of libraries provide education and reference services for the children and creative programs, storytelling, book reading and book review meeting too. Most participants in the selection of materials were manager of libraries.Value/ Originality: Survey of researches show many of researches have done in educational and special libraries and their capabilities with IFLA standard and there is not any research about libraries of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. So, the result of this study shall be useful for Children and Young Adults libraries, Schools libraries, and also libraries of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults.

Purpose: The objective of this applied study is to identify the relationship between librarians' job satisfaction and users' satisfaction of public libraries in Zanjan province.Methodology: This survey was carried out by a researcher-made questionnaire. All 123 librarians were examined. Multistage cluster sampling method was chosen to sample from fifty thousand users, so 384 questionnaires were distributed. Statistical analysis methods such as Pearson, Spearman, etc were used and the data were analyzed by SPSS software.Findings: The results showed that the level of librarians' job satisfaction in the aspect of the relationship between governance and supervision, social status, extracurricular activities and wages and salary, with job satisfaction approved with 99 percents confidence. In the aspect of organizational culture and the relationship between librarians' job satisfaction and users' satisfaction, the hypothesis did not approved. So librarians' job satisfaction is at a low level in relation to the five components of this study (organizational culture, governance and supervision, training and extracurricular activities, content and status of jobs, wages and salary system) and the librarians' job satisfaction has little or no effect on the users satisfaction.Conclusions: Librarians' job satisfaction is at a low level in relation to the five components of this study and the librarians' job satisfaction has little or no effect on the library users' satisfaction.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the website of Ministry of Health and Medical Education from perspective of users.Methodology: This study is a descriptive survey. Data collection tool is a questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.915) that was distributed among 100 graduate students studying at the Faculty of Paramedics of Tehran University of Medical Sciences and 76 questionnaires were completed.Findings: The results showed the users’ satisfaction of the website usefulness is 2.84, the validity of the website is 3.16, good administration of the website is 25.3, the scope and content of the web site is 3.14, the website appropriate guidance of visitors is 3.01, the appropriate tools to search in the web site is 2.59, and their satisfaction with design, being user-friendly, interface and good outputs of the web site is 2.94. The overall users’ satisfaction of the website in order of preference is as follows: proper administration of the website, the validity of the web content, scope and content of the web site, a useful guide web tool, the design, being user-friendly, interface and outputs of the web site, usefulness of the website, and appropriate tools to search in the website. In total, the meets users’ expectations to get information.Conclusions: Ministry of Health and Medical Education has to continue uninterrupted planning to provide useful and credible information as user-friendly so that more effective presence on the World Wide Web will be provided in addition to meet the needs of domestic users.Graduate Students; Tehran University of Medical Sciences; Overall Satisfaction; Validity; User-Friendly; Website; Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between perceptions of the work environment's factors and the librarian's work alienation in the Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran libraries.Methodology: The research method is Analytical survey. The statistical population consists of the 119 librarians of the Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran libraries. There are 100 questionnaires (84%) of the all 119, which were completed and returned.This study examines the rate of relationship between perceptions of the work environment's factors including Job Characteristics (Elbow Room, Task Identity, Feedback, Job Challenge), Occupational Role (Role Ambiguity, Role Conflict, Overload), and the librarian's work alienation.Findings: The research results show that the librarians under survey have a satisfaction of their workmates in common. There isn't any significant relationship between work alienation and demographic characteristics, but there is a significant relationship between work experience and the job characteristics. According to the results of this research, librarians of this research community aren't generally foreign with their labor, but the most of their grievances are about their participation in decision making, and role overload.Conclusions: Role ambiguity, role conflict and pressure have a negative correlation with the score of work alienation. Therefore, with an increase in each of them, the work alienation increases too. On the other hand, has a positive significant relationship with it, so that, with an increasing in task identity, the work alienation reduces.

Purpose: Concept map is the visual representation of the relationship between concepts that are linked in the mind of the learner. So It is very important to pay attention to the use of concept maps in academic different tissues. The aim of this study is to identify conceptual maps applications to facilitate and improve academic activities.Methodology: This research is carried out using library method. Literature review was conducted. "Concept map" was used for searching in Persian and English authentic databases and full-text articles were studied. This article include introduction of concept maps, construction process, introduction of concept map softwares and application in academic activities.Findings: The results showed the effective application of concept map in different areas of the academic activities. Use of concept maps are in the improvement of teaching, learning, academic achievement, critical thinking, comprehension, creativity, patient education, search and retrieval information. Also the relationship between ontology and concept map facilitate and improve academic activities.Conclusion: Concept map, clearly, demonstrated the relationships between concepts, as a powerful educational tool. It would organize content in mind, and as a result, meaningful learning occurs. Compared to training methods such as traditional education, corporate training, presentations, face to face training and Blended Learning, a concept map has been more successful.

Purpose: This article aims to study the role of knowledge organization in society and its relationship with social, political, economic and cultural structures. In this study, the relationships between the knowledge organization and social structures and its role in society have been studied based on Habermas's public sphere theory to determine that documents organizing is a function of social structures and can be influenced and also affect on society and its structures.Methodology: This research is carried out using library method in qualitative analysis methodology.Findings: The study showed that knowledge organization in information and knowledge science is not only a practical activity and can be considered as a field of study in society. According to the theory of the public sphere, knowledge organization can be effective in a combination of public and private spheres. Knowledge organization is organized by the society and the public sphere, on the other hand, can also be influence on public sphere.

Purpose: The main objective of the present study is assessment of quality of library services based on LibQual in Islamic Azad University: Isfahan (Khorasgan) branch.Methodology: The method used in this study was descriptive-survey. Research community consisted of library active members of Islamic Azad University of Isfahan (Khorasgan) branch in 1393.293 persons were selected by simple random sampling based on Krejcie and Morgan table (1970). The research tool was a LibQual standard questionnaire taken from www.Libqual.org website which was translated to Persian. Data analysis at descriptive level included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and at the level of inferential consisted of multifactorial variance analysis, single sample t-test and Friedman test.Findings: Results show that the whole score for the quality of library services in Islamic Azad University of Isfahan (khorasgan) branch was 6.2949. Considering Likert scale, according to the respondents, the quality of services is higher than average. Also, according to user expectations, the mean services provided to the users were (6.13), which is higher than the minimum expectations (5.9557) and lower than the average of maximum expectations (6.7564).Conclusion: There have been adequate quality in library services, and libraries have been able to meet the least users’ expectations in all three dimensions, however, they are far from desired level of services. Also, the results demonstrated that impact of services had more average rather than other dimensions and the library as a place has fewer average rather than other dimensions.