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Value management is a structured approach to defining what value means to the organization and it is a team-based approach. This concept is a combination of planning tools and methods to find the optimum balance of project benefits in relation to project costs and is concerned with the creation of sustainable value. The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between value management and creating value in the management of public libraries in the province of Kerman, Iran.

The research method is survey-descriptive and correlational. The statistical population consists of all managers and staff of public libraries in Kerman. Due to the small number of participants, the Method of Estimating Total Population was used. To collect data, a 12 item questionnaire of value management and a questionnaire of another 12 questions of library management were used. The main components of the value management questionnaire included: quality and customer orientation; specialization, autonomy of action; management skills and facilitators; and professional structure.

The specialization components among the employees with mean = 3.6 and median= 4; quality and customer orientation with mean = 3.2 and median = 3.5 were higher than the average and the components of management skills and facilitators with Average 2.6 and Median 2.7; Professional structure with mean= 2.2 and median= 3.2 were below average. The components of specialization, autonomy of practice and management skills and facilitators have a significant predictive effect on library management. Also, according to the index of correlation coefficient, among the components of value management, the component of specialization, the autonomy of action, has the most relationship with value management. In general, findings show that the components of value management, except for the component of professional structure, have a significant relationship with the management of public libraries in Kerman.

Creating value with the current conditions of the public libraries of  the province Kerman is far from expected. The component of specialization and autonomy of action has been more focused. By applying value management components in the management structure of public libraries and other libraries, value creation and value added can be created through library services Professional. The results showed that the use of value management components can improve the work process in these libraries. It also attracts better users; Identifies the information needs of library members and makes information resources accessible. It was found that there is a close relationship between strengthening organizational culture and value management. Holding training skills courses is closely related to creating organizational culture and strengthening values. User communication skills increase the value of information services. Technical capabilities, familiarity with information technologies, computing, better understanding of library devices and equipment help preserve library values. .Increasing the quality of information services, providing customer orientation, paying attention to specialization, accurate grouping of specialization and independence of action, strengthening management skills and focusing on professionalism according to the components of value management are among the research suggestions.

Aim: The purpose of current study is to evaluation the performance of managers who expertise library and information science in achieving optimal management of academic and public libraries in Tehran city with managers who lacking a degree of Library and Information science. This study of 3rd level of technical skills, management skills and human skills is to be measured. More effort is desirable to measure public skill of management because other factors are involved in management. The research method was applied to the purpose of the survey was to collect data on the type of research. The sample of the study, all the employees working in public libraries in Tehran (depending on the libraries and municipalities) and libraries of public universities affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in Tehran in 1394, which is equivalent to 780 people. To achieve this objective, in addition to theoretical studies and literature review, data were collected using a questionnaire about library management performance measurement reliability with Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 97.0. Also, it was found that the performance of gender-based library management and library and there is a successful female managers than male managers are in addition to the executive directors of public libraries and university libraries have had a better performance. The results of the data analysis reveals that managers that hare expert in Library and Information Science are more successful.
Originality/ value: The value of this paper is to show the importance of expertise of knowledge and information science in libraries management, and this effect can be given management, plans to improve the performance director of the library offer.

In this study, while reviewing the status of management information systems in libraries; issues such as applications, advantages, and limitations of these systems have been proposed. This is a Review study.
Findings: Library users are expected to vast amounts of information and sources of information will provide for them as soon as possible. Increasing volume of information on the one hand and on the other hand the necessity perennial problem of lack of libraries funding has doubled the need for optimal management of these centers. A library management information system in addition to solving the majority of these problems will have a positive impact on management decisions. Today, the development of management information systems has become an inevitable matter in organizations because these systems provide information for awareness of managers in different levels of the organization to making appropriate decisions. A library also as an independent agency or a subsidiary of its parent organization follows from management principles

The purpose of this paper was to provido a strategic analysis for the establishment of electronic commerce in Isfahan university libraries and to present proper strategies with using SWOT matrix. A survey method was used and statistical population included Isfahan University Libraries. iInformation was collected through 2 developed questionnaieres. Evaluation of internal factors showeds that Strengths outweigh weakness but financial dimension of human resources, technical dimension, customer factors, rules and policies have weakness. The findings also showed that the Library threats outweigh opportunities but library had many threats in the products and services dimension. In this research we presented 4 offensive strategies, 3 diversification strategies, 8 shift strategies and 3 defensive strategies. the status of Isfahan University libraries shows that, although these libraries are under threats of external environment but they have a good status for the establishment of electronic commerce. Diversity strategies will help achieving this establishment.

Object: Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology has a significant impact on industrial and service organizations. This technology supplies an innovative automated system for library intelligent management. Success in organizational use of RFID in libraries requires its acceptance and accurate usage by users. Current study aims to investigate the most effective factors on RFID acceptance by library staff and indentify the existing relations between them applying an interpretative structural modeling to propose a suitable model. By studying previous RFID theoretical studies, effective factors have been identified on RFID acceptance by users and it has been modeled by applying an interpretative structural modeling technique. As a data collecting instrument, researcher-made questionnaire was used and distributed among responders. The population of the study included all the staff members working in central and faculty libraries of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences who were familiar with RFID technology. The results indicate that “attitude towards technology” is an essential factor in accepting RFID by library staff members. Positive attitude towards technology can result in a situation that RFID accepted as a valuable technology in accessing information. On the other hand, this has a great effect on reduction of staff resistance towards RFID acceptance.

This research aims to survey the use rate of Marshall criteria into public relations by the librarians of Arak and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. It was used the survey-descriptive method respectively. In order to gathering the research data it was used a researcher-made questionnaire; this measured the use rate of 7 Marshall criteria (Budgeting, financial resources and gifts, informing the faculties and students, the more use of the library by the university people, improving the general viewpoint of academic community to the library, informing the non-academic community, and the more use of the library by the non-academic community) into public relations. The population included the librarians in the above mentioned universities out of which 86 ones sampled. For the validity, the viewpoints of experts were applied into the questionnaire. For the reliability Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated. 987. In order to data analysis the SPSS 16 was used. The findings showed that in opinion of the librarians, applying of the public relations into 7 Marshall criteria was relatively favorable. In order to improving the conditions, experts should hold the educational courses on Public Relations.

The present research aims to study the relationship between organizational atmosphere and organizational commitment in the public libraries of Mashhad city. The present research is an applied descriptive survey research. The population is 117 librarians in the public libraries of Mashhad city. Data collection was done by questionnaires. The research questionnaire was designed based on Halpin and Craft’s organizational atmosphere description and Meyer and Allen’s organizational commitment questionnaire. The findings showed that librarians’ satisfaction with organizational atmosphere conditions in the items related to the individual’s interaction with other staff (with total average of 4. 17) is higher than their satisfaction in terms related to the interaction between the staff and the manager (with the total average of 2. 83). It was found that the respondents’ organizational commitment in all indexes is higher than average (3). Generally، there is no significant relationship between organizational atmosphere and organizational commitment in Mashhad city public libraries. Also، in terms of organizational commitment، there is no significant difference between male and female librarians، while the librarians with no degree in library science have more organizational commitment than those who have a degree. Originality/Value: Till now، no research has been conducted regarding the organizational atmosphere and organizational commitment in Iran. This research has been conducted in the public libraries of Mashhad city for this purpose. This research also discusses one of the basic issues in the field of man power in libraries which needs deeper research.

The purpose of this study was to determine the management styles and their relationship with job satisfaction in Tehran university libraries. Methodoloy: The population of this study was 175 librarians from 12 universities of Tehran. Data were collected by a questionnaire in survey. Eight indicators of Likert's "Profile of Organizational Characteristics" were used to determine the librarie's prevailing management styles. The results of this research revealed that management style of Tehran university libraries was benevolent authoritative stylewith respect to indicators of "motivation", "communication", "interaction – influence", "decision making", "goal setting", and "performance goals and training”.The style was consultative with respect to "leadership" and "control. Based on eight indicatorsthe major conclusion was that management style of Tehran university libraries is benevolent authoritative style and near to consultative style. The Pearson coefficient correlation (0.702) showed that there is a significant relationship between management styles and librarians job satisfaction in Tehran university libraries.