Determining the information needs of Faculty members and Post-graduate students at Rehabilitation Faculty of ShahidBeheshti of Medical University-2011(1390)

Understanding the information needs of Faculty members and graduate studentshas an impact at raise and promoting knowledge If needs to be resolved. The peresent research aimed to determine the information needs of Faculty members and post-graduate students at Rehabilitation Faculty of Shahid Beheshti of Medical University. The methodology was descriptive-sectional survay using a questionnaire includes 56 question that the evaluation and validation. It has been approved by pundits inlibrary scienceand Biostatistics. Reliability of which was measured 0.85 based on Chronbach’s alpha.The populationconsisted of 93 persons data were analyzed by 18 spsssoftware. Finding show that (91.6%) of the population chosed Internet as a first. (50.7%) of them goto the faculty libraryto provide information needs. Rate of using the Google was (86/9%) as the first and Other Options about (13%).The first priority was touseprint resources (73/3%), Science Direct (59/2%) and Pubmed was (53/1%). the most important hindrance in access to source was Low-speed internet (81.3%). Thetarget populationIn terms of gender. There was nosignificant difference intheneed for training (p= 0.236).Between Faculty members and post-graduate students was no significant in terms of useful conferences (p=0.856). Internetis the main source used to gain information by respondents. Most sources were used print resources, search in google, sciencedirect and pubmed. Low-speed Internethas been a major problem respondents.