INFORMATION SYSTEMS & SERVICES
Year:2014 | Volume:3 | Issue:3-4 (11-12)|Papers Count:9

Purpose: The main objective of this study is to identify and compare the features of content management systems of conferences, at the national and international level.Methodology: In this research, a description of analysing system (web-based survey), Suehas: oral interview, seeing the conference website and various parts of the system, an available movies and slides, documentary and library studies methods including study guides, educational menus and all existing evidence, empirical and practical study were conducted. Finally, for measurig the available facilities in the selected samples and comparing them the descriptive method was used (Descriptive statistics, frequency tables, bar and radar charts using SPSS and Excel software). The population of the study was conferences management system in the national and international level. The samples of the study consisted of three national conference management systems (Yekta Web, Afzare Shargh, Negar and Adak) and three international systems (ASME, Conftool and OCS(PKP).Findings: The findings showed that among the international system, Conftool system in terms of what the Juror has reached the highest score. In the national systems, Negar system of Fraznt corporate in the part of the Juror of the Congress was the highest score in terms of facilities.Conclusion: Finally, researchers concluded that the investigated systems had a little difference, they all had the capabilities of the standard systems. Also, Negar conference management system, had little difference with those of conferences of international management systems. These findings can help in the design, development, purchase, or use the new conference management systems.

Purpose: This project aims at considering the representation of articles on librarianship and information science in Namaye and Namamatn databases.Methodology: The survey method is researching and the means of collecting information have been the survey lists as well as the researchers’ questionnaire. The research body consists of all the articles on librarianship in Namaye and Namamatn databases which include 802 and 500 articles in Namaye and Namamatn databases respectively.Findings: Findings of the research indicated that most of the articles (%65.7) in Namaye database have only one keywords. On the contrary, (%77.4) of the articles in Namamatn database have two keywords explainers in Namaye database are of the prepositions combination type while %86.8 of these explainers in Namamatn database are one-word types.Conclusion: The findings of the research theories revealed that there is a significant difference between the number of titular keywords. Results of the findings suggested that the process of namaye database development, by far, is longer than that those in namamatn database.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to offer a model of Inter-agency cooperations to provide services for the blind and low-sighted people in Iran.Methodology: This research was conducted as Quantitative (Descriptive Survey) and qualitative (Content Analysis). Required data were collected in two parts: First via questionnaire consisted of 3 open questions, asked through telephone interviews, with 12 non/expert respondents. The second part of the required data was obtained from the observation of libraries environment and search in the libraries websites, documents, news etc.Findings: The results showed that despite a large number of blinds and low-sighted people in Iran, information services and facilities had been scattered. There were no national plan for resource sharing and exchange associated with this particular groups.Conclusion: In order to achieve the desired level of services in both level of internal and inter-organizational, new measures including the more use of technology should be taken from organizations such as: the National Library for the Blind and Low-sighted people (apart from the current existing libraries, including the Blind Department of National Library), as a dynamic institution that have moral and material support from the government and the public. Finally, this new implemented organizations have to coordinate resource-sharing plans at the national level.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between resistance to change and the productivity of the librarians at Tehran branches of the Islamic Azad University.Methodology: The methodology of this study was descriptive and correlation. Participants included 145 librarians at 44 library locations of Islamic Azad University. The instrument used in data gathering was a questionnaire. In order to analyze the data, descriptive and analytical methods plus the SPSS 22 had been used. 145 questionnaires were handed out but only 135 of them were received and examined.Findings: “Ability” as one of the dimensions of “librarians’ productivity” was higher than the other elements (with a mean of 3.6) and motivation was the lowest of all (with the mean of 2.1). Moreover, organizational level with the mean of 2.9 had the highest percentage of librarians’ resistance to change and individual level with the mean of 2.6 was the lowest of such resistance. The findings showed that at the Islamic Azad University libraries of Tehran, the individual and group level of resistance to change tended towards the average point and the organizational level of resistance had a tendency to move above the average point.Conclusion: At the libraries of Tehran’s Islamic Azad University branches, the ability of the librarians was at a high level but they had little motivation to enhance their productivity. The high level of organizational resistance to change showed the lack of acceptance of organizational changes by the librarians. Overall, the findings indicated there was tendency to move above the average. In other words, an increase in librarians’ resistance to change lead to reduction in their productivity and vice-versa.

purpose: The research aim is to find out the usefulness of three training methods for preparing thesis references and select the best ones of the library educational policy. This will save time and money in library user education process.Methodology: Referencing errors were categorized from two points of view. First, according to writing and content errors. Second, according to the fields that referencing errors occurred (author, title, publication). Errors were tabulated from each points. Twenty error codes were identified and 207 theses were included in the survey. In fact, references of thesis prepared from September 2009 to November 2010 were selected as the research community.Findings: Results showed that about half of references contained less than 20 errors and the other half, more than 20 errors. Field error survey showed that the most several occurred errors were 10 in each field. In other words, more than half of the references contained less than 10 writing errors. 53% of the references contained less than 10 content errors. Both writing and content errors in author and publication fields were observed more than those of the titles. There were too many inconsiderable writing errors in references. Repetition errors were observed in less than 10 references in 67% of theses.Conclusion: Faculty staffs should be aware of the significance of reference lists as an important part of the research practices and remind this to the students. Libraries' duty is to prepare educational workshops and facilities proportionate to the student population and needs. Overcoming the problem of population and high demand for workshops is also the other libraries' duties. In order to meet this aim, presenting online courses are recommended.

Purpose: This research evaluates the level of acquaintance of members of Tabriz Central Library with its facilities and services for needs assessment of library users training course.Methodology: It is an analytical descriptive research. For gathering the data, 6 open questions and 33 close questions had been asked in a form of a questionnaire. A sample of 361 active member of Tabriz Central Library answered the questionnaire.Findings: The first hypothesis is evaluation of hypotheses about the existence of significant differences between the levels of familiarity with the library software on the members, with 95 percent confidence were confirmed. The second hypothesis that is about having significant difference between the users with high and low range referring to the library and level of familiarity with the library software with 95 percent confidence was confirmed. The third hypothesis that is about having significant difference between the users with high and low range of book check in the level of familiarity with the library software with 95 percent confidence was confirmed. Conclusion: Results showed that half of the library users are familiar with the library software concepts and facilities. According to these results it is needed to train the users for appropriate use of the library software.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess the knowledge of post graduate students of Shaheed Chamran University of Ahwaz of instances of plagiarism and its influencing factors in order to present solutions to avoid plagiarism in universities.Methodology: This research was a descriptive-analytic type and the data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was measured through content validity technique, and its reliability was measured by calulating Cronbach’s Alpha which rendered an alpha of 0.8 (a=0.8). The research population included all the post graduate students of Shaheed Chamran University. Applying the Morgan table, the sample size was chosen as 354 cases from the statistical population (N=4765).Findings: Findings of the research indicated that knowledge of students of instances of plagiarism is normal. Also, in view of students under study, effective factors on plagiarism are in order of priority: upbringing, economic &, technological, social, cultural, and educational.Conclusion: Inadequate proficiency of students on all aspects of the research subject, financial capability and giving money to the person in order to do research or project, document-oriented, delinquency in doing homework and delay in those and not learning the correct way of writing a scientific paper in universityies to students were identified as the most important reasons to plagiarism.

Purpose: The world is rapidly going towards modernization and areas of application of information technology in the contemporary world and expanding rapidly. Libraries are not exempt from these changes and now we are living in a period of great transformation that reflects the changes in university libraries which can be observed. The aim of this research is to study the status quo of use and application of information technology in the academic libraries of the Ardebil province.Methodology: A survey research method was used and the data was collected by a researcher - made questionnaire. The survey consists of 54 academic libraries. Ninety eight personnel participated in this research.Findings: The results showed that, the most important IT-based information services offer users online access to databases (53.7%). The training courses were held for users ICDL (53.76 percent). Other results indicated that the most important factor in the application of information technology is training librarians in the use of information technology (By means of 4.95) and the most important difficult barrier is taking advantage of the shortage of IT technicians of libraries (By means of 4.97).Conclusion: The results revealed that the amount of IT & hardware and software equipments of libraries were not satisfactory, and the most difficult barrier was lack of major technical experts in the use of information technology.