نشریه مطالعات کتابداری و سازماندهی اطلاعات
سال بیست و چهارم شماره 4 (پیاپی 96، زمستان 1392)

Exploring strengths and weaknesses of the services provided by the Department of Information Services and making suggestions for improvement. Design/Methodology/Approach: Statistical population consists of the total number of 74 staff and 1500 active users of the services. 306 user and 57 staff، as well as 8 managers were selected as the sample، using Morgan Table of sample selection. Customer perspective has the highest level of balace، then internal processes. Learning and finanacial perspectives won the lowest balance scores. Performance was balanced for customer and processes perspective، and imbalanced with regard to finance and learning.

Investigating use of online services by the faculty members and measuring their staidaction as well as identifying problems and barriers Design/Methodology/Approach: Data collection tool in this survey study consisted of a researcher designed questionnaire. Statistical population consisted of 220 faculty members، out of which a sample of 140 was selected using Morgan Sampling Table. Findings and Iran Medex was used more frequently (13. 6% of all the use). Theme was used the least (1/4%). Satisfaction criteria from the point of views of the faculty included: up-to-datedness، the number of databases held by the host، consistency with the special needs، quality of information. Main purpose of use was research (21/4%). Main complaint came from low speed connection (23/6%). Lack of command of foreign language was a problem for only 2/2 % of respondents.

Probability of correlation between gender، field of study، grade، of students and the level of eight dimensions of library anxiety were examined. Design/Methodology/Approach: Sample comprised of 123 students. A revised version of Van Kampen''s Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale was used. 79 percent of students have experienced average and high levels of anxiety. Library and Information Science students showed the least، while students of Exceptional Children and Sport Science showed the highest level of anxiety. Male students experienced higher levels of library anxiety than females، and econd and third term students respectively showed lowest and highest levels of library anxiety. Access to services showed evoked highest level of anxiety، wheras contact with the and library staff caused the lowest level، on average. Library anxiety is a common among postgraduate students of the Faculty

Exploring the evolution of copyright law in the Islamic Culture and the Modern West Design/Methodology/Approach: Results from content analysis of primary resources recorded in a checklist Muslim Sunni and Shiite religious scholars and Western scholars have written widely to protect copyright. Western scholars attempts however، have developed systems of such protection within the national as well as international arenas

Exploring differences bwteen description of Internet resources using RDA with AACR for description of biliogrphic elements in such resources. Design/Methododology/Approach: comparison has been made between areas 1، 9 and 12 of the latest edition of AACR2 (2002 ed.، revision of 2004) and areas 1 to 7 of RDA. Little deference observed between AACR and RDA with regard to the proper title. GMD in AACR been replaced by 3 items (media type، carrier type and content type) in RDA. Few deferences noticed between AACR and RDA in Statement of responsibility، edition، size، publication place، publisher name، publication date، serial and notes. Following items are some of new items in RDA: mode of access، access restriction on access، restrictions on use، system requirements، summarization of the content، content language، contact information and Internet URL. AACR compatibilty with regard to descriptive areas of Internet resources between RDA and AACR was 71. 87%. Cataloging Internet resources in RDA is simple and complete compared to AACR.

Patial inter-checking contents of two old manuscripts، then checking both against an authoritative print version to anser the question whether new edtion is needed or not. Design/Methodology/Approach: Tables of frequency were used ti analyse the text. One very lengthy chapter، one lengthy chapter، one semi-lenghy chapter، two moderate size chapters، and one very lengthy letter (nearly 15% of the entire text) were analysed. The 6th century manuscript (held at NLAI) had 144 cases of variations with the printed version. The 5th century manuscript shared 94 instances (around 70%). Preparing an authoritative version of the book is needed.

Investigating consistency of data elements of ECIP)Electronic Cataloging in Publication (records in the bibliographic database of the National Library with the printed CIP data elements printd on the copyright pages of monographs held in the collection of the library wa sth epurpose of this study. The number of fake ECIP titles and mistakes by publishers in the print format was also studied. Design/Methodology/Approach: Bibliographic elements) heading، title، publication sta - tus، physical characteristics، subject، classification، added entries (were collected from NLI''s database and copyright pages of printed monographs for a sample of 1000 titles divided into 10 DDC main classes. Consistency for descriptive data elements was100% the main entry، Philosophy and Arts classes. Consistency was observed for 99% for Titles and 90% publication satatus for all items disregard of th subject area. With regard to analytic elements، consistency was 100% with regard to classification code for the classes of Generalities and Philosophy f. Subject headings with 98. 2% consistency of Theology and Literature; and added entries with 70% for generalitie. Overall، consistency rates were higher in main entry and title، and lower for added entries. More than 70% of the printed CIP data in copyright pages of printed mon- ogrphs was consistent ECIP records. Consistency of descriptive data in printed CIP was less than analytic data. Typing errors found in 49. 5% of records in printed materials. Out of 1219 records randomly selected، 219 were fake ECIP، ie relevant items were never not published.

Exploring views of librarians and library directors about the possibility of in - stalling Radio-Frequency Identification)RFID (in the university libraries with regard to circulation desk services، security، shelf reading، and inventory control، and management purposes. Design/Methodology/Approach: A questionnaire was used to collect data. Using strati- fied sampling، views of 135 out of 168 librarians and directors of three University Libraries in) University of Isfahan، University of Medical Sciences of Isfahan، and Isfahan University of Technology (were sought. Installing RFID improves the quality of services at the loan desk. It helps with identification of unwanted materials، saves users’ time، and helps with shelf reading and inventory control. Deployment of RFID was considered more for circulation desk services، se - curity system، shelf reading، and library management.

Investigating effects and application of visualization in the improvement of formation retrieval procedure. Design/Methodology/Approach: Literature survey Information visualization is an effective way to improve information retriev Search strategies، probing skills، appropriate design of query and analysis of informati all have significant roles in accessing useful information. Visualization can increase ava ability of information and help better information retrieval. Info-crystal enhances information retrieval. Through establishing interaction with innumerous search strategies، visualization can result in better access information. Visualization may reduce problems retrieval by clustering and establishi hierarchical relations. Information visualization is discussed widely in Computer science literatu However، little has been written to address concerns of librarians.

To examine properties of modern media and patterns of communication in such media as well as thegap between them and older media Design/Methodology/Approach: Review of library resources. Trend of communication patterns of modern media is toward reviving old modes of information transfer and interpersonal communication. With the advance of modern technologies، the sense of interpersonal com - munication will be replicated entirely. Advances in infrastructure، hardware، and software development have led to the improvement of the quality of communication. That process not only has changed one-sided transfer of messages، but also has moved beyond the text based interactions، and turned to interactive multimedia.