Quality of life public librarians Malaysia and Iran during the years 1385-1390: a comparative study

the purpose of this study is comparative study quality of life for public librarians in Iran and Malaysia during the years 1385-1390. Survey-analytics method has been used. 100 public librarians Malaysia and 100 public librarians Iran has been selected by Random Sampling. World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL) (summarized form with 26 questions) has been used and sent to librarians in Iran and Malaysia by Email (English version for librarians Malaysia). Questions were summarized to general area quality of life and 24 slight areas that include 6 factors: physically، psychologically، independent levels، social communications، environmental communications and intellectual interests. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics average and standard deviation and analytical statistics، Pearson correlation test and T test by SPSS. findings showed that the lowest factor quality of life in Iran is “independent levels” (average 6/35)، in Malaysia is “intellectual interests” (average 5/22) and the highest factor quality of life in Iran is “intellectual interests” (average 17/65) and in Malaysia is “psychologically” (average 33/47). Total factors quality of life have high average in Malaysia''s librarians except factors «intellectual interests» and «social communications» (average in Malaysia respectively 5/22 and 5/32)، (average in Malaysia respectively 17/65 and 8/30). conclusions of this research showed that generally quality of life during the years 1385-1390 in public librarians Malaysia is higher than public librarians Iran. The lowest subsets quality of life in Iran were “feeling of security”، “financing”، “accessing to information” and “social protection”. There were the Lowest correlation between 2 factors “social communications” and “physically” in Iran and Malaysia.