Study of knowledge sharing and university libraries website management in Tehran City

Knowledge sharing (KS) is a process through which individuals mutually exchange their knowledge with each other and potentially through this process، opportunity for learning new experiences، training and implementing experience، skills and abilities are provided. Therefore، KS is important for various organizations. Accordingly، and because of the importance of KS، this research studies the status of KS and management of public universities’ central libraries websites in Tehran city. Survey method is pilot-descriptive and research tool is a questionnaire. Research community is staffs and stakeholders who are working or commenting on websites. Results of research show that sharing knowledge and influencing factors (including individual factors، organizational and information technology) in the study population have a more favorable situation. Findings indicate that among the above three factors، organizational factors than other factors are more barriers on KS. Website management does not have good situation and website management by libraries and good condition، by a library is limited to content part and other parts of technical and structural are managed by the University’s IT Section. Employee’s capabilities and skills that could be effective on working with the website and KS do not have good situation، especially in website’s structural and technical parts and staffs have more skill for working with the content of website. In all، although KS has a good situation among staffs، but KS and management of website is not coherent، dynamic and efficient.