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Today, organizations, especially libraries, are focused on the value of relationships with their customers and change their strategies from the orbital product of the customer, and the monitoring system of satisfaction as an effective strategy is of great importance. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the possibility of establishing the monitoring system of user satisfaction in the Astan Quds library from the viewpoint of librarians.

This quantitive research was an applied one in terms of purpose and a descriptive-quantitative one in terms of data collection. The data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population of the study was librarians working in the Central Library of Astan Quds, among which 130 were selected by simple random sampling and the questionnaire was distributed among them. The analysis was performed using SPSS software in two descriptive and inferential levels.

Data analysis showed that the possibility of deployment of user satisfaction systems in the central library of Astan Qods in the organizational level of marketing (customer-orbital), management (Strategic Planning, Organizational Culture, Internal Marketing, Project Management) and Information Technology (Innovation and knowledge management) and also at the individual level from the perspective of admission at moderate level.

According to the findings of the research, the Library of the Astan Quds seems to take action to establish a monitoring system of satisfaction, although it needs to enhance the factors raised at individual and organizational level.

The main purpose of this research is a survey the gap between their expectations and perceived performance of SAMAN capabilities based on the expectation-confirmation theory.

This research is functional and the method of the survey is descriptive-analytical approach. Statistical study of this research is All 220 librarians working in public libraries in the province of Khorasan Razavi that use SAMAN software. The data collection tool is questionnaire. In order to access the reliability of the data collection tool, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used.

Findings showed that the gap between expectations and perceived performance is -0/415. Although, the results showed that there is little gap between expectations and perceived performance, but librarians expressed their satisfaction higher than average (3/519).

The overall result indicates that SAMAN designers should try to fill this gap by the consideration of librarians changing expectations in order to cause SAMAN capabilities more usefulness.

The present age is the age of rapid change of knowledge and organizations, in order to survive, must continuously collect appropriate data from external and internal environment and convert them to knowledge. Under such circumstances, knowledge, a valuable asset and strategic resource, has replaced capital and energy, and is a staple for sustaining life in dynamic and innovative organizations, and is the key to the success of organizations in global competition. Knowledge management is one of the tools that can help organizations achieve these goals. In addition, knowledge management provides the best solutions for developing, nurturing and utilizing personal knowledge and transforming it into organizational knowledge, as well as helping people to share and apply this organizational knowledge to improve organizational performance. Therefore, given the importance of the issue in large organizations, the existence of a knowledge management system is crucial. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the status of knowledge management implementation in the Islamic Revolution Documentation Center.

The purpose of this study is an applied one that is a descriptive survey. The research population consisted of all managers and experts of the Islamic Revolution Documentation Center (80 people) who were not selected due to the limitations of the sampling population. The data gathering tool was Bucowitz & William 1999 Knowledge Management Questionnaire (Moghimi, 2011). Its face validity was confirmed by expert opinion and Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.82) was used for its reliability. Data were analyzed by SPSS software using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Findings showed that the mean score of seven dimensions of knowledge management implementation including high level knowledge (3.824 out of 5), high knowledge utilization (3.796), high learning knowledge (8.48), 3) High knowledge sharing (3.716), High knowledge sharing (3.830), High knowledge creation (3.808) and High knowledge removal (3.829), is. Overall, the mean obtained from the various stages in knowledge implementation was highly evaluated (3.807). The findings also showed that there is a significant difference between the managers 'and experts' viewpoints about the role of knowledge management on the development of services and efficiency as well as on the elements of knowledge management implementation.

The results showed that the factors of finding, applying, learning, sharing, evaluating, creating / maintaining and deleting knowledge influence the implementation of knowledge management. The results showed that the knowledge management status based on this model is above average in the Tehran Islamic Revolutionary Documentation Center and is in good condition. This reflects the attention of managers and experts to the importance and value of knowledge and its sharing and the attention to knowledge management programs. Among the seven factors studied, the mean of knowledge learning was higher than other factors. Also, among other factors, the knowledge sharing factor, which is the center of gravity of KM programs, although in a relatively good condition, but has the lowest average of all other factors. Therefore, increasing managers' attention to culture in this area through material incentives (salary increases, job promotion) and non-material incentives (encouragement, respect) and support for knowledge sharing management reinforces this factor in the Islamic Revolutionary Documents Center of Tehran. In other words, if existing cultural patterns are not appropriate, in spite of the efforts and goodwill of individuals to share knowledge, the knowledge that is transferred will be very low. On the other hand, the findings of the present study indicate that given the increasing importance of knowledge in organizations such as centers. Documents, knowledge management, will be a very useful tool to take advantage of it. If employees and managers as human capital believe that the implementation of KM helps to effectively maintain and maintain jobs, personal development and career development, as well as the use of new tools and knowledge processes as structural capital, capital enhancement Thought will become a reality. The Islamic Revolution Documentation Center of Tehran can make the best use of the knowledge of librarians and experts, the information and knowledge available in the organizational repositories, improve its service delivery and meet the information needs of its researchers and users.

To analyze the fiction components of the children’s storybooks of the age group C published during 2010-2015.

This is an applied research in terms of purpose which has been conducted using a survey method of content analysis with a descriptive approach. The statistical population of the research consisted of all the children’s books of the age group "C" published during 2010-2015 which were equal to 5787 titles and 100 of them were selected as the research sample using the systematic random sampling method. The data collection tool was a researcher-made checklist that included the narrative elements to be analyzed. The face validity of the checklist was examined and confirmed by several specialists in the field of children's literature. Data were analyzed at a descriptive level including statistical indicators of frequency and frequency percentage and displayed in the form of frequency distribution tables.

The results showed that most of the characters in the books reviewed were human and stories were narrated in a forward-looking manner based on a historical order. Furthermore, there was less use of symbolism and the theme of most works was more of the explicit kind. In addition, visualization and imagery were the most frequent elements in the style of stories.

 Attracting children and young adults to reading storybooks has an important role in shaping their personality, while the role of effective use of the elements of story in creating attractive and influential works is indisputable. It was found out in the present study that some of these elements, such as dynamic personality, symbolism, and the use of different tones, have received lesser attention from the authors of the storybooks for the age group of “C”. Furthermore, the stories written for this age group has not been studied so far from this point of view.

Ontologies facilitate data integration, exchange, searching and querying. Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry is a solution for creating reference ontologies. In this foundry, the design of ontologies is based on established principles which allow for their interactions as a single system. The purpose of this study is to determine the main features of ontologies developed based on foundry principles. This descriptive cross-sectional study (2017) retrieved data about the ontology components, subject, language and tool from the OBO foundry website, and OntoBee (the default linked data server for the foundry ontologies). The frequency of classes, instances, Object Properties, DataType Properties and Annotation Properties are classified by the use of descriptive statistics. The main subjects of 151 ontologies were Anatomy, Health and Phenotype. Most languages and tools were, respectively, OBO and OBO-edit versions used for the development of ontologies. Five percent of ontologies contained more than 78977 classes, 150 object relations, 39 DataType relations, 110 annotation relations, and 356 instances. Increasing the number of ontologies developed based on OBO foundry principles as well as using OBO language and OBO-Edit is indicative of the fact that ontology developers have accepted the principles and tools.

Ontologies improve the quality of information retrieval (IR). Therefore, it is important to better know the process of ontology engineering and their application in IR. The aim of this research was to identify the engineering methods of ontologies and also their application in biomedical IR.
This review was done through library research method with an analytical approach. Required information for the review was retrieved from Pubmed, Scopus and Web of Science using keywords: "Ontology-based biomedical Information Retrieval", "Information Retrieval", "Biomedical Information Retrieval", "Ontology engineering", "Ontology construction", "Biomedical Ontology" and "Ontology building" without time limit. Five articles addressing an ontology-based biomedical IR system were reviewed.
Studies on ontology based biomedical IR, started in 2004, are not limited to a single country. In general, ontologies are used to manage the semantic metadata. Although most IRs try to develop their own ontologies, reuse of earlier ontologies is a priority. The material for developing ontologies is taken from the literature in the domain. The studied ontologies have been produced by centralized approaches and decentralized approaches and different groups have not been used.
The main purpose of systems for applying ontologies is using them to develop semantic metadata for helping machine reasoning.

A user's mental model is his/her mental image of the system and how it operates. Studies have demonstrated that user's information seeking behavior is different and this difference is depended on the user's mental models of the system. Indeed, people’s thinking, behavior, and activities are guided by their mental models in the interactive contexts. Furthermore, there are different factors that influence mental model formation of the system. So, this study aims to investigate the factors affecting master students̓ mental model completeness level of Google web search engine.
From the methodological perspective, this research is a practical one based on the survey method. The research sample consisted of 30 master students from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad majoring in engineering science and social/human sciences who were selected purposefully and participated voluntarily. The main tools for gathering data are semi-structured interviews (based on mental model completeness scale (Li, 2007)), group embedded figure test, Kolb learning style inventory and information literacy questionnaire. Therefore, student's mental models scores were measured by interviewing and after that the relationship between their scores and other research variables was investigated according to the following questions:1. Is there a significant relationship between students̓ mental model completeness level of Google web search engine and their cognitive style?
2. Is there a significant difference between students̓ mental model completeness level of Google web search engine and their learning style?
3. Is there a significant relationship between students̓ mental model completeness level of Google web search engine and their information literacy?
4. Is there a significant difference between students̓ mental model completeness level of Google web search engine and their academic fields?
5. Is there a significant difference between students̓ mental model completeness level of Google web search engine and their gender?
FINDINGS: The results showed that there was a significant relationship between student's mental model completeness level and cognitive style. In other words, field independent students had more complete mental models than field dependent students. On the other hand, there was no significant difference between student's learning style and mental model completeness level. It was also observed no significant relationship between their mental model completeness level and information literacy, but there was a significantly, positive and moderate relationship between their mental model completeness level and information retrieval component. Also, there was a significant difference between student's academic field and mental model completeness level, so that the students majoring in engineering sciences had better mental models than students majoring in social/human sciences. On the other hand, there was no significant difference between student's gender and mental model completeness level.
According to the findings, it is important to consider factors affecting mental models in designing user-friendly interfaces, personalization of systems and user training. In such a way, our systems and user trainings become more effective. By designing systems based on the cognitive style, users can develop better mental models, have more effective search strategies and be more satisfied. Furthermore, investigating the relationship between learning style, information literacy, gender and mental model requires more researches with more participants.

This study aimed to investigate the effect of communication skills of librarians of Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi on the quality of their services. The research was conducted through a descriptive and co-relational method. The statistical population consisted all librarians (64 people) and active member of the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi (61,178 people). Due to the limited number of librarians, all of them were conducted and 382 people (based on the Kerjcie-Morgan’s table of sample size) were selected randomly through stratified sampling method. Two standard questionnaires of Queendam (for measuring communication skills of librarians) and LibQual (for measuring the quality of services) were used to collect the needed data. The collected data were analyzed in both descriptive statistics (including frequency distribution and percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Chi-square test, T-test and Pearson) using SPSS 18 software package. Descriptive findings showed that the average of librarians’ communication skills and also the quality of service in the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi was on middle level. Analytical results showed that there is no significant relationship between the librarians’ communication skills and the quality of services in the Central Library. There was also a significant difference between the librarians’ communication skills in terms of their demographic characteristics (including gender, age, work experience, education and field of study).

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a major channel of getting information and web search engines are the most popular way of accessing information. This study aims to investigate master students’ mental model completeness level of Google web search engine. From the methodological perspective, this research is a practical one based on survey method. The sample population consisted of 30 master students from Ferdowsi University in engineering science, humanity/social sciences which selected purposefully and participated voluntarily. The main tools for gathering data are semi-structured interview (based on mental model completeness scale (Li, 2007) and designed questions) and direct observation.
The results demonstrated that 80% of students had incomplete mental models and 20% of them had good mental models and none of them showed a complete mental model. The majority of student's perception was good in Specific/General Info, Multiple Type of Databases, Matching Process, Keyword Searching and Info Authority. The majority of student's perception was moderate in Restricting/Broadening and Ranking/Sorting. But the majority of student's perception was poor in Limited Info, Indexed Pages/Sites, Search Assistance, Boolean Operators, Search Operators & Prefixes, Punctuation & Symbols, Advanced Search and Search Setting. There was a significant difference between mental model completeness level and interactivity level. That is, the students having the better mental model, showed better interactivity level.
According to the findings, it is necessary to consider mental model as a factor affecting information seeking behavior, in designing information systems and training users too. Understanding user's mental models reveal their errors, misconceptions and knowledge gaps; and by this pathology, it is possible to correct these faults and flaws and increase the effectiveness of the system and training.

In this research we aimed at the investigation of the relationship between librarians’ spiritual intelligence level and the quality of library services.
This correlation study was conducted through survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of all librarians and patrons of the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi. A sample of 46 librarians and 384 patrons was selected using random stratified sampling method. Required data was collected through Amram and Drayer’s spiritual intelligence questionnaire and a researcher- made questionnaire on library services quality. Validity and reliability of the questionnaires had acceptable measures.
Findings: The results showed that spiritual intelligence of studied public librarians was under mean level. Also, there was a significant relationship between librarians’ spiritual intelligence and the quality of their services. Furthermore, there was a significant association between the components of spiritual intelligence including goodness, inner-direction, the concept, truth and honesty, and integrity and wholeness with quality of services.
Originality/Value: we tried to show that despite low level of spiritual intelligence of public librarians, there was significant correlation between this variable and quality of services. Thus, by official effort to increase in their spiritual intelligence, we may see better quality of services.

Saffron is one of export products which has a competitive advantage in Iran and saffron farmers need proper information in order to improve the quality of their agricultural performance. Thus, addressing and identification of their information behavior components, sources, and strategies as well as the challenges and problems would help the authorities to make proper policies and decisions. The present research has been conducted in order to compare elite saffron farmers’ information-searching behavior with that of normal saffron farmers in the South Khorasan province. The study population comprised of all the saffron farmers of South Khorasan province (N =17387). Using Morgan formula and cluster sampling, 375 people were selected for the purpose of this study. The results showed that saffron onion (M=3.58 of 5), pesticides and fertilizers (M=3.56) and farmland worker (3.54) were the main components of saffron farmers’ information-searching of the two groups, respectively. The sources of information for both groups included reference to past experience (M=2.68 of 5), neighboring saffron farmers (M=2.67), contact with informants (2.64) and other family members (M=2.64). The information available in local language (M=4 of 5), by native people (M=3.98), clear and intelligible information (M=3.98) and low cost (M=3.82) were among the main criteria that affect the behavior of the two groups in the use of information sources. Also they are confronted with common problems such as lack of attention to the needs of farmers (M=3.57 of 5), and insufficient number of technical experts (M=3.42). It was also found that there was no significant relationship between information searching behavior of elite and normal saffron farmers and their performance (r= -0.08, p= 0.133). Regarding the “lack of attention to the needs of farmers by technical experts” as the most major problem, South Khorasan Organization of Agricultural Extension is advised to design and implement relevant training courses based on the information needs of saffron farmers.

The main aim of this study was to determine the cost-utility of the integrated systems in the Iranian academic libraries.
This applied research was conducted through a survey method. The statistical population consisted of 118 academic libraries among which 75 libraries were selected using stratified sampling method. The researcher-made questionnaire was distributed among them. Finally 73 questionnaires were collected and the related data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics by SPSS.
Findings: Security and functionality were the most important priorities of choosing ILS by the libraries. Amongst the evaluated ILSs, Payam-e-Mashregh was the least costly system and the self-made systems were the most costly ones. Besides, Payam-e-Mashregh was the most satisfactory system while the least satisfaction was with the self-made systems. Finally, Payam-e-Mashregh had the best cost-utility ratio.

The aim of this paper is identifying and analyzing elements and features of Simorgh library software, and measuring its users and librarians’ satisfaction.
The methodology of this study is of survey type and it is an applied study. Tools for data collection is QUIS questionnaire that was distributed among all librarians and 386 users of Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi whom were selected through simple random sampling without replacement. Both descriptive and deductive statistics methods were utilized for data analysis.
Findings: Findings showed that the level of satisfaction of participants with interaction to Simorgh software is in average, whereas the librarians were significantly more satisfied than the users. The highest level of satisfaction of users and librarians was related to general reaction with interaction to Simorgh software and interface display, while the lowest level of satisfaction was related to software help and interface vocabularies and messages.
Efficiency of user interface of Simorgh software from the view of users and librarians of Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi is in average and in a few cases is higher than medium, and with more attention to the consistency of user interface elements and features of the software to the needs, views and features of different groups of users can be added to their satisfaction.

The goal of integration of digital libraries (DL) is to utilize various autonomous DLs in concert to provide knowledge from such island-DLs. Integrated digital libraries (IDLs) appeared after the emergence of DLs in 1990s, invention of integrated information systems from 2000 and consolidation of them during the recent decade. The Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME) of Iran has emphasized the integration of health services throughout the country which unavoidably requires the integration of digital libraries in Iranian universities of medical sciences. The main purpose of this investigation was to identify effective factors on such integration.
The present research was conducted through analytical-descriptive approach. The related data were gathered from literature, assessed by the Delphi Panel members and analyzed by Fuzzy TOPSIS technique (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Situation). The research population (Delphi Panel) consisted of 15 specialists in digital library areas. The snowball method was used to determine the research statistical sampling. The data were gathered through a five-point Likert scale self-made questionnaire after its reliability and validity were evaluated.
Study of related published studies in literature revealed that DLs, Integrated Information systems and IDL were three systematic related phenomena, which emerged and developed in a definite and unavoidable order. The findings showed that 34 affecting factors could be considered which influence the integration process of digital libraries in Iran Universities of Medical Sciences. The affecting factors could be classified into five main groups of strategic, technical, digital, organizational and human factors, according to their proximity and importance.
IDLs are the outcome of merging the experiences of DLs and integrated information systems, which have led to efficient and remarkable informatics systems. According to the findings of the present work five main factors consisting of strategic, technical, digital, organizational and human ones affect the integration process of DLs in Iranian medical science universities.

The main objective of this paper is to determine how familiar the Library and Information Science graduate students at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) and Payame Noor University of Mashhad (PNUM) are with capabilities of Web 2.0. We will also indicate the results of our study on the attitudes of the student on the use of web 2.0 capabilities. In order to do so we chose all Library and Information Science graduate students at FUM and PNUM to construct the unit of our analysis. Then a sample extracted from our unit of analysis which reached to 140 graduate students from FUM and PNUM. Then we used the researcher-made questionnaire to collect the necessary data. The questionnaire was then distributed among the sample members, based on the stratified random sampling and eventually some 76 valid questionnaires were collected to be suitable for further analysis. Some of the research findings indicate that the most popular Web 2.0 tools used by the research samples from FUM and PNUM turn out to be Weblog and the least popular one was social cataloging sites. Also, the most used Web 2.0 tools among FUN students were Wiki while PNUM students used Weblogs. It should also be noted that there was a significant relationship between the type of university the graduate students studied in and their familiarity with Web 2.0 tools. This is while no significant relationship existed between the type of university and the use of Web 2.0 tools. The findings also indicated that two research populations had considered the impact of Web 2.0 tools on knowledge sharing to be a moderate impact. They instead considered the impact of Weblogs on knowledge sharing to have been above average.

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting the state of publishing in provience of Kohgilogeh and Boyer Ahmad in the years 2001-2011 from the perspective of publishers and booksellers. This study used a descriptive survey and research population consisted of 3 publishers and 36 booksellers whose 30 percent of their job activities were in book selling. Research tools included 2 separate questionnaires for publishers and booksellers. Data using Excel and SPSS software and By descriptive method analysis is. The findings showed that 127 titles (480000 volumes) in various subjects were published during 2001-2011. The major released titles belonged to the field of history and geography (33.85%) and literature (27.55%) was ranked in the second place. Publishers and booksellers has been averagely satisfied with their job. According to publishers and book sellers the impact of the General Directorate of Culture and Islamic Guidance on the publication was greater than other organizations and institutions. Among the most important factors affecting the publishing status in the provience from the perspective of publishers and booksellers were:lack of governmental supports for book publishing and distribution, removal of subsidies on paper and books, lack of well- trained and expertise publishers and booksellers and other stakeholders, the lack of book reading culture and the failure of the education system due to a single- text-system.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational climate and job satisfaction of the librarians at the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi.
The present study was conducted through the survey-correlation method. The population consisted of all the officially-employed librarians in the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi among which 52 individuals were randomly chosen. Data collection tool was a questionnaire adapted from the Schneider questionnaire of organizational climate and Smith questionnaire of job satisfaction which were distributed among librarians. The collected data then were analyzed using appropriate parametric tests including T test, Pearson correlation test, multiple regression and ANOVA using SPSS software.
Findings: According to the results, librarians’ job satisfaction at the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi was evaluated at a high level but its amount was significantly different based on their gender and work experience. Meanwhile, the organizational climate of the library was assessed as moderate. Research results also showed that there were significant relationships between the components of library organizational climate and librarians’ job satisfaction.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the interface of Iranian academic publishers’ websites based on the B2C ecommerce model indicators including attraction, build-up and continuance. The present study is a survey method which was conducted through Heuristic Evaluation. The research population consisted of the interface of 90 academic publishers’ websites. the research data gathering tool was a researcher- made checklist prepared based on B2C ecommerce model indicators and inspired by Nielsen’s interface components model (1993).Thr research findings showed that despite the confirmation of research hypothysis stating the impact of three B2C indicators (attraction, build-up and continuance) in the websites interfaces on the revisiting of audience (in the form of links from other websites and the number of website clients (traffic)). few websites of the population have been successful in using of these features so that the means of most of the examined websites in using many of the related components were lower than average and have been relatively weak.

Goal: Having an appropriate organizational culture is one of the main factors for implementing effective marketing in the libraries and information centers; therefore this study examines the relationship between attitudes to marketing activities and organizational culture. The research method is descriptive correlational type. The participants were all of the 1.5 employees and managers in the organization in 2812. They completed two questionnaires measuring attitudes to marketing activities and organizational culture. After excluded 42 incorrect questionnaires, other questionnaire analyzed. Pierson correlation coefficient was used to analyze data. There is a positive and meaningful relationship between the clan culture and need to marketing, the adhocracy culture and need to marketing and also the hierarchy culture and usage of the marketing plan. Furthermore there is a negative and meaningful relationship between clan culture and usage of the marketing plan and also hierarchy culture and need to marketing. From the employees and managers viewpoint, the hierarchical culture is the dominant culture in the organization. Also if the clan and adhocracy cultures improve more in the organization, the need to marketing will improve too.

The present study was in order to measure the satisfaction of the International University of Imam Reza (AS) was the Quality of Instructional Design of the virtual learning courses. This survey research - descriptive applied by using a questionnaire to collect the data required has been paid. Population in the 91-90 incoming graduate students in virtual courses have been. That the fields of linguistics, computer architecture, artificial intelligence, urban planning and urban design are studying. 266 The number of people using random sampling Tyqhay (Niemann allocation method) were selected. Researcher-made questionnaire was electronically distributed and 266 questionnaires were completed and collected. Findings from the analysis of the data showed that the average student satisfaction Virtual Instructional Design Courses 3.455, respectively. The results of hypothesis testing using analysis of variance revealed To the satisfaction of the e-learning instructional design courses in different fields of Imam Reza (AS) was not significantly different.

Range of statistical systems in the field of book publishing, and disseminating statistics on the status of the case is extremely important. Cultural statistical system to function properly, that shows how the balance between infrastructure and in what direction to move; Hence, the present status of titles and circulation of the book’s main cultural factors effective in every area of publishing, were studied in Mashhad during 1380 to 1390. The population is active publishers of the city of Mashhad and Information and data from the Statistical Center of Iran Book House Institute and other related organs are extracted. The results indicate that the growth rate of the whole country in Mashhad book titles every year, there is no significant relationship, but the growth rate in each year there is a direct correlation with a total circulation of books. The sub¬ject of children, religion, science and practice of natural science than other subjects in the highest proportion allocated to the publication years 1380 to 1390. At the end suggested, specialization act of publishers in subjects which have a smaller share in the publication of Mashhad and Support programs to increase the circulation books, publishers and readers to higher levels of study.

This research aims to determine the quality of Iranian public publishers’ websites based on WQET criteria of: clarity of purposes and audiences, performance, updating, reliability, and navigation. The method of research is evaluative survey and the required data is collected through standard chek lists of WQET. The study population are the websites of 38 top publishers in 1390 that have been investigated during Azar, Dey and Bahman in 1391. The results showed that criteria of performance, directing internal links to logical consequences(navigation) were in “excellent” level, “clarity of purposes and audiences” in “good” level and “validity” in a “normal” level.The results of ranking of websites showed that the websites of Pouran pajuhan with the score of 82 was the first and the other websites of Teymourzade, Qoqnoos, Afraaz, Hermes, Soroosh, Majd and Jameenegar located in second to eight positions and had excellent quality.At the end there are some proposes based on research finding which are provided to improve quality of websites of public publishers.

Khorasan cultural history has always been associated with many ups and downs, but the Mongolian invasion to this territory should be considered as its turning point. With the rise of the Timurids, the Greater Khorasan, their government center, experienced relative peace and glory after the dark period of the Mongolian domination. It provided the necessary context for comprehensive developments including cultural and artistic development in this territory, hence it could be considered as one of the lively periods in Khorasan’s cultural history. This paper has tried to present a clear picture of Khorasan’s cultural situation in the Timurids era with emphasis on the developments of libraries as an expression of the ancient culture of this land. In this regard, during the classification of types of libraries in the Greater Khorasan in the Timurid era, some of the most important of them are mentioned.

publication of a society in the major indexes of the intellectual and spiritual growth and publishing as cultural activity of the sample vital dynamic and growing community development. todayssociety, the necessity of the book is well understood and to the importance of it as a powerfulinstrument in the production and development of science has become aware of. In other words, the product of industrial, publishing industry and this is like any other industry need of planning, policy making, investment and infrastructure to be able to a cultural and economic lever become effective. The study the situation of publishing books, an important factor in recognizing shortcomings and abilities of the field and present among the most appropriate for future laps. a policy that should have all the elements of effective extends logical connection between them. This research is the status of publishers Mashhad during the years 1380 to 1390, a description of society and its statistics include all active publishers over the city of Mashhad which made by questionnaire researchers studied. research findings show that the publication of Mashhad, after Tehran and Qom third rank country allocated. Mashhad publishers have been more public and adults. Also subjects in literature, religion, children and practical sciences way to the most of the book production have average circulation and more Mashhad publishers of “age factors” 2000- 3000 copies to follow. Mashhad publishers also often activities of his work has been satisfied and sought to expand their activities fields are in the future.