Studying the information need's of Iran publication's directors

Studying the information needs of Iran publications directors. The survey method is used in this research. The sample totaled 1997 directors that 214 ones were selected through a systematic random sampling. The questionnaire is used as a tool of the survey. To analyze the data, we used descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and variance. Also, the data was analyzed by the SPSS software. Iran publications directors considered 56 persons (%37.33) as the first priority of their most needs for information resources to train and to research; they also considered 50 persons (%33.33) as their second priority of the most needs for information resources to increase professional knowledge. The directors considered 55 persons (%36.6) as the third priority of the most needs for information resources to increase personal knowledge and 91 persons (%60.66) as the forth priority to gain information about other publications respectively. The most average of gaining information is highly through the Internet (%4.11). The Fox News Media is of "the most used media" for information resources; "the least useed media" of the resources is a Latin one called Persivishen (%0.56). There are many various methods of surfing the Internet and websites. The importance of the library in fulfilling the information needs under this study sample is %3.13. It was found that the Internet is the first information device for publications of the managers and the usage of readers opinions is in the next step. The main aim of the publications of the managers is to search information and up to date it (37.33%). Finally, they use more than 34% from their emails.